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Sign name: BU/BU.AB (SIRSIR)
Values: sirsir

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi E) (c.2.4.2.05), line c24205.27

anše	šu-gi<sub>4</sub>	kaskal	X	nu-kuš<sub>2</sub>	kur	nim-ta	kaš<sub>4</sub>-ĝa<sub>2</sub>
anše	šu-gi₄	kaskal	X	kuš₂	kur	nim	kaš₄
donkey	elderly	(high)way	X	to be tired	(mountain) land	upper (land)	to run

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Paragraph t24205.p4 (line(s) 23-30) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

They have composed šir-gida songs, royal praise poetry, šumunša, kunĝar and balbale compositions about how I carried warfare across the sea to the south, how I jerked up the hostile land of Elam as if it were grass by a gateway, how in the uplands I …… the people like grain, how I trekked the length of the mountains in battle, how I travel about indefatigably in the mountain uplands like an old donkey on the road, and about my expeditions …….

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary