ETCSLglossingSignSign name: TAG
Values: sub6, šum, tag, tibir, tuku5, zil2
An elegy on the death of Nannaya (c.5.5.2), line c552.9
tur5-rau2nu-gu7gababa-ritur5-raba-an-dab5
tur5u2gu7gabaritur5dab5
to be illplantto eatchestto directto be illto seize
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Paragraph t552.p3 (line(s) 9-15) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
He, not eating, was stricken with illness and was languishing away (?). Having closed his mouth, he ate no food and lay famished. According to a tablet ……. The warrior, a wanderer (?), did not move a foot. From (?) his sick …… he was consumed with wailing for his children. Heart anguished, overcome by wailing, the scholar died a violent death in Nibru.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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