ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: NUNUZ.AB₂×LA (LAḪTAN)
Values: laḫtan

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.23

u<sub>2</sub>	teš<sub>2</sub>-a-ka	šag<sub>4</sub>	ab-sed<sub>4</sub>-de<sub>3</sub>	nam-tag-ga	al-du<sub>8</sub>-e
u₂	teš₂	šag₄	sed₄	nam-tag	du₈
plant	pride	heart	to be cold	sin	to spread

Click on a lemma to search the ePSD. Show sign names.

Paragraph t513.p5 (line(s) 21-26) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"And another thing: you will never return to your blinkered vision; that would be greatly to demean due deference, the decency of mankind. Worthy plants calm the heart, and sins are absolved. An empty-handed man's gifts are respected as such. Even a poor man clutches a kid to his chest as he kneels. You should defer to the powers that be and …… -- that will calm you."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary