ETCSLglossingSignSign name: BU/BU.AB (SIRSIR)
Values: sirsir

Gilgamec and Huwawa (Version A) (c.1.8.1.5), line c1815.66
gu-ru-ma...XX-maim-ma-gub
gu-ru-um...XXgub
pile...XXto stand
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Paragraph t1815.p12 (line(s) 62-67) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
When he had crossed the seventh mountain range, there his intuition led him to find the cedars. He did not need to ask, nor did he have to search any further. Lord Gilgamec began to chop at the cedars, { { while Enkidu lopped off their branches, …… to Gilgamec. } { (1 ms. has instead:) while Enkidu …… their branches, and his fellow-citizens ……. } { (1 ms. adds:) to ……, Enkidu ……. } …… stacked them in piles. { (1 ms. adds:) Huwawa ……. } He loosed his terrrors against ……. } { (instead of lines 65-67, 1 ms. has:) while Enkidu cut up the timbers, and the widows' sons who had come with him heaped them up in piles. Since, because of the ……, Huwawa had been scared in his lair by Gilgamec, he began to radiate his terrors ……. }
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