ETCSLglossingSignSignSign name: PIRIG.AB×GAL
Values: nergalx

The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.200
šu-ga-lamkiḫuškidikud-de3
šu-ga-lamkiḫuškidikud
Šu-galam (ON)placeto be reddishplace(law)suitto cut
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Paragraph t217.p25 (line(s) 196-206) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
Thereafter the house was the concern of all the days and all the nights that he made pass by. He levelled what was high, rejected chance utterances (?), he removed the sorcerers' spittle (?) from the roads. Facing Šu-galam, the fearful place, the place of making judgments, from where Ninĝirsu keeps an eye on all lands, the ruler had a fattened sheep, a fat-tail sheep, and a grain-fed kid rest on hides of a virgin kid. He put juniper, the mountains' pure plant, onto the fire, and raised smoke with cedar resin, the scent of gods.
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