ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: SILA₃
Values: qa, sal₄, sila₃

The song of the hoe (c.5.5.4), line c554.84

ki-še<sub>3</sub>	<sup>ĝiš</sup>al-am<sub>3</sub>	ĝiš-gi-a	ur-ra	tir-ra	ušumgal-am<sub>3</sub>
ki	al	ĝiš-gi	ur	tir	ušumgal
place	hoe	reedbed	dog	forest	type of serpent

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Paragraph t554.p13 (line(s) 83-93) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

In the sky there is the altirigu bird, the bird of the god. On the earth there is the hoe (al): a dog in the reedbeds, a dragon (ušumgal) in the forest. On the battlefield, there is the dur-allub battle-axe. By the city wall there is the battle-net (alluḫab). On the dining-table there is the bowl (maltum). In the waggon shed, there is the sledge (mayaltum). In the donkey stable there is the cupboard (argibil). The hoe (al)! -- the sound of the word is sweet: it also occurs (munĝal) on the hillsides: the tree of the hillsides is the allanum oak. The fragrance of the hillsides is the arganum balm. The precious stone of the hillsides is the algameš steatite.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary