ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: EŠ₂.SUD.NUN.EŠ₂.TU
Values: saman

The song of the hoe (c.5.5.4), line c554.88

ki	<sup>ĝiš</sup>gigir-ka	<sup>ĝiš</sup>ma-a-a-al-tum-ma
ki	gigir	ma-a-a-al-tum
place	chariot	type of sledge

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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