ETCSLglossing | ![]() | Sign name: KIN Values: gur10, kig̃2, kin, saga11 |
lu<sub>2</sub>-e | a | dug<sub>4</sub>-ga | id<sub>2</sub>-da | mi-ni-ĝar-ĝar | id<sub>2</sub> | X | (...) | i<sub>3</sub>-dun | i<sub>3</sub>-luḫ-luḫ |
lu2 | a | dug4 | id2 | ĝar | id2 | X | (...) | dun | luḫ |
person | water | to say | watercourse | to place | watercourse | X | (...) | to dig | to clean |
The men (?) started irrigation work (?) on the watercourses, { …… the watercourses …… } { (1 ms. has instead:) and dug and cleaned them out thoroughly }. These bandits and brigands applied their hoes to levelling the desert completely. As for their men and their women { (1 ms. adds:) …… the road (?) …… }: the man among them goes wherever he pleases, { the woman among them } { (1 ms. has instead:) the woman }, holding a spindle and hair clasp in her hand, { goes (?) } { (1 ms. has instead:) …… } { (1 other ms. has instead:) going } the way of her choice. In the vastness of the desert { they set up } { (1 ms. has instead:) they knock up } animal pens, and { after setting up their tents and camps } { (1 ms. has instead:) they lie in (?) green meadows in their (?) tents and camps }, their workers and agricultural labourers spend the day together on the fields. |
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary |
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