ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: NI
Values: be₃, dig, i₃, ia₃, le₂, li₂, lid₂, ne₂, ni, suš₂, zal, zar₂

Enki and Ninmah (c.1.1.2), line c112.107

munus	nu-u<sub>3</sub>-tud-ra	nam	mi-ni-tar	ninda	mi-ni-in-cum<sub>2</sub>
munus	tud	nam	tar	ninda	cum₂
woman	to give birth	destiny	to cut	bread	to give

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Paragraph t112.p15 (line(s) 102-110) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Enki answered Ninmah: "I decreed a fate for the first man with the weak hands, I gave him bread. I decreed a fate for the man who turned back (?) the light, I gave him bread. I decreed a fate for the man with broken, paralysed feet, I gave him bread. I decreed a fate for the man who could not hold back his urine, I gave him bread. I decreed a fate for the woman who could not give birth, I gave her bread. I decreed the fate for the one with neither penis nor vagina on its body, I gave it bread. My sister, ……." (2 lines fragmentary)

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary