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ETCSLglossing

Sign name: MUŠ₃gunu.BU (MUŠ₂.BU)
Values: susbu

The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.543

maš-a	šu	i<sub>3</sub>-gid<sub>2</sub>	maš-a-ni	i<sub>3</sub>-sag<sub>9</sub>
maš₂	šu	gid₂	maš₂	sag₉
(kid) goat	hand	to be long	(kid) goat	to be good

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Paragraph t217.p66 (line(s) 543-550) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

He performed extispicy on a kid and his omen was favourable. He cast grain on to …… and its appearance was right. Gudea lay down for a dream oracle, and while he was sleeping a message came to him: in the vision he saw his master's house already built, the E-ninnu separating heaven and earth. This made him extremely happy.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary