ETCSLglossingSignSignSign name: PAP.E (PAB.E)
Values: pa5

The lament for Sumer and Urim (c.2.2.3), line c223.G.412A
ĝišĝišnimbar-gin7gu2-gur5-ruba-ab-dug4teš2-biba-ra-an-kad4
ĝišnimbarguru5dug4teš2kad4
date palmto cut downto sayunityto bind together
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Paragraph t223.p51 (line(s) 411-419) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
Its mighty cows with shining horns were captured, their horns were cut off. Its unblemished oxen and grass-fed sheep were slaughtered. { (1 ms. adds 1 line:) They were cut down as date palms and were tied together. } The palm-trees, strong as mighty copper, the heroic strength, were torn out like rushes, were plucked like rushes, their trunks were turned sideways. Their tops lay in the dust, there was no one to raise them. The midribs of their palm fronds were cut off and their tops were burnt off. Their date spadices that used to fall (?) on the well were torn out. The fertile reeds, which grew in the sacred ……, were defiled. The great tribute that they had collected was hauled off to the mountains.
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