ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: TUM
Values: dum, eb₂, ib₂, tum

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.31

mu	gud-gin<sub>7</sub>	i-lu	dug<sub>3</sub>-ga-zu-še<sub>3</sub>	ĝiš	i<sub>3</sub>-la<sub>2</sub>-a-bi
mu₇	gud	i-lu	dug₃	ĝiš	la₂
to make noise	bull	(sad) song	to be good	tree	to hang

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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