ETCSLglossingSignSign name: UD×U+U+Ugunu (MURU2 and ITIgunu)
Values: murub4
The debate between Copper and Silver (c.5.3.6), line c536.D.66
urudšumĝišḫur-saĝ-ĝa2-ke4gu2-banu2-nu2-a
URUD-šUMĝIšḫUR-SAĝ-ĝA2-KE4GU2-BANU2-NU2-A
šum-meĝišḫur-saĝgu2nu2
sawtreemountain (range)neckto lie down
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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
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