ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: KU
Values: bid₃, bu₇, dab₅, dib₂, dur₂, duru₂, durun, gu₅, ku, nu₁₀, suḫ₅, še₁₀, tukul, tuš, ugu₄

The building of Ninjirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.188

balaj	ki	aj<sub>2</sub>-e	ucumgal	kalam-ma
balaj	ki	aj₂	ucumgal	kalam
type of instrument and composition	place	to measure	type of serpent	the Land

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Paragraph t217.p24 (line(s) 173-195) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

The true shepherd Gudea is wise, and able too to realise things. Accepting what Nance had told him, he opened his storehouse up and took out wood from it. Gudea checked (?) the wood piece by piece, taking great care of the wood. He smoothed mec wood, split halub wood with an axe and built (?) a blue chariot from them for him. He harnessed to it the stallion Pirij-kace-pada. He fashioned for him his beloved standard, wrote his name on it, and then entered before the warrior who loves gifts, before his master Lord Ninjirsu in E-ninnu-the-white-Anzud-bird, together with his beloved balaj drum Ucumgal-kalama, his famous instrument to which he keeps listening. He joyfully brought the drum to him in the temple. Gudea came out of the shrine E-ninnu with a radiant face.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary