ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: U₂.NAGA.GA
Values: uga

The heron and the turtle (c.5.9.2), line c592.A.34

...	ki	daĝal	šum₂-ma-ab	nunuz	ki	ḫa-ba-ni-in-tag
...	ki	daĝal	šum₂	nunuz	ki	tag
...	place	to be wide	to give	egg	place	to touch

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Paragraph t592.p5 (line(s) 32-47) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The gift-giving bird made a plea; the heron entered the house of King Enki and spoke to him: "Give me …… a wide-open place to lay my eggs in." He gave her ……, and did …… for her. …… is indeed …… (1 line fragmentary)She laid eggs in the ……. She laid eggs in the wide reedbeds of Tutub. She laid eggs in the marshes of Kiritaba. She laid eggs in the adara thickets of Akšak. She laid eggs in Enki's interconnecting (?) lagoons. She laid eggs in the smaller lagoon, the lagoon of Eridug. She laid eggs in Enki's barbar reeds. She laid eggs in the little zi reeds of Urim. She laid eggs in Urim, where cows and calves abound.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary