ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GU
Values: gu

The building of Ninĝirsu's temple (Gudea, cylinders A and B) (c.2.1.7), line c217.790
e2-ninnutum12mušen-eni2bi2-ne
E2-FIVE.U (NINNU)TUM12-MUšEN-ENI2BI2-NE
e2-ninnutum12ni2ne-ḫa
E-ninnu (TN)pigeonselfto be calm
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Paragraph t217.p89 (line(s) 781-798) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
The seven stones surrounding the house are there to take counsel with its owner. Its chapel for funerary offerings is as pure as the clean abzu. The stone basins set up in the house are like the holy room of the lustration priest where water never ceases to flow. Its high battlements where pigeons live is …… Eridug ……. E-ninnu offers rest to pigeons, it is a protective cover with large branches and a pleasant shade, with swallows and other birds chirping loudly there. It is Enlil's E-kur when a festival takes place in it. The house's great awesomeness settles upon the whole Land, its praise reaches to the highlands, the awesomeness of the E-ninnu covers all lands like a garment.
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