ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: LU₂šešig
Values: ri₉

The building of Ninjirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.592

ucum	abzu	tec<sub>2</sub>-ba	ed<sub>2</sub>-de<sub>3</sub>-dam
ucum	abzu	tec₂	e₃
type of snake	underground water	unity	to go out or in

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Paragraph t217.p70 (line(s) 591-601) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

As they placed wooden beams on the house, they looked like dragons of the abzu coming out all together, they were like …… of heaven ……, they were like huge serpents of the foothills ……. The reeds cut for the house were like mountain snakes sleeping together. Its upper parts were covered with luxuriant cedar and cypress, and they put white cedars in its inner room of cedar, marvellous to behold. They treated them with good perfume and precious oil. The mud-wall of the house was covered with the abundance (?) of the abzu and they tied its …… to it. The shrine of E-ninnu was thus placed in the …… hand of An.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary