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Sign name: DUB.NAGAR
Values: tibira

Ninurta and the turtle (c.1.6.3), line c163.B.40

ba-al-gu₇	eĝer-ra-ni	sa-bi	ba-da-an-dab₅
ba-al-gu₇	eĝer	sa	dab₅
turtle	back	sinew	to seize

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Paragraph t163.p10 (line(s) 36-46) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Against Ninurta, Enki fashioned a turtle from the clay of the abzu. Against him he stationed the turtle at an opening, at the gate of the abzu. Enki talked to him near the place of the ambush and brought him to the place where the turtle was. The turtle was able to grab Ninurta's tendon from behind. The hero Ninurta managed to turn back its feet. Enki, as if perplexed, said," What is this!" He had the turtle scrape the ground with its claws, had it dig an evil pit. The hero Ninurta fell into it with the turtle. The hero did not know how to get out from ……. The turtle kept on gnawing his feet with its claws (?).

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary