ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: NI.TUK
Values: dilmun

The debate between Copper and Silver (c.5.3.6), line c536.D.62

zu₂-zu	ki	ba-al-la	eme-zu	saḫar	bal-še₃	ak
ZU₂-ZU	KI	BA-AL-LA	KA&TIMES;ME (EME)-ZU	SAḫAR	BAL-šE₃	AK
zu₂	ki	ba-al	eme	saḫar	bal	ak
tooth	place	to dig	tongue	earth	to turn over	to do

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Paragraph t536.p20 (line(s) 60-66) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"You have accumulated lies about my honourable station. Let me, the mouse, do his work -- his assigned task in the ground is noble. Your teeth dig the ground, your tongue (?) moves the dirt. The copper hoe has its digging taken over by the wooden hoe in the harder ground. The copper sickles need to have the hard weeds burned. The copper axes which chop trees, stripping and pulling out tamarisks and ash shrubs, have their blades dulled. The copper saws have to lie down for a rest beside the mountain trees."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary