ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: IGI.KAK (IGI.GAG)
Values: dala₂, šukur

The instructions of Šuruppag (c.5.6.1), line c561.266

ur	nu-zu	ḫul-am<sub>3</sub>	lu<sub>2</sub>	nu-zu	ḫuš-am<sub>3</sub>
ur	zu	ḫul	lu₂	zu	ḫuš
dog	to know	to be bad	person	to know	to be reddish

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Paragraph t561.p86 (line(s) 266-271) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

{ To get lost is bad for a dog; but terrible for a man } { (1 ms. has instead:) An unknown place is terrible; to get lost is shameful (?) for a dog }. On the unfamiliar way at the edge of the mountains, the gods of the mountains are man-eaters. They do not build houses there as men do; they do not build cities there as men do. (1 line unclear)

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary