ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: A.TIR
Values: eša

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.29

dub-sar	umun<sub>2</sub>	ak	sun<sub>5</sub>-na-bi	ugula-a-ni	mu-un-na-ni-ib-gi<sub>4</sub>-gi<sub>4</sub>
dub-sar	umun₂	ak	sun₅	ugula	gi₄
scribe	knowledge source	to do	to be humble	overseer	to return

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Paragraph t513.p7 (line(s) 29-35) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The learned scribe humbly answered his supervisor: "I shall give you a response to what you have just recited like a magic spell, and a rebuttal to your charming ditty delivered in a bellow. Do not make me out to be an ignoramus -- I will answer you once and for all! You opened my eyes like a puppy's and you made me into a human being. But why do you go on outlining rules for me as if I were a shirker? Anyone hearing your words would feel insulted!"

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary