ETCSLglossingSignSign name: GAN2tenu (KAR2)
Values: guru6, kar2
A praise poem of Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma C) (c.2.4.1.3), line c2413.53
gana<sub>2</sub>gihulmu<sub>2</sub>-acuba<sub>2</sub>nu-mu-u<sub>8</sub>-da-lu
gana2gihulmu2cubalu
fieldreedto be badto growagate?to be abundant
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Paragraph t2413.p5 (line(s) 50-56) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
In me, Ur-Namma, the lands of Sumer and Akkad have their protecting genius. I am a source of joy for the Land; my life indeed creates! ……, the fields are resplendent (?) under my rule. In the fields growing with ……, …… did not multiply under my rule. In the desert, the roads are made up as for a festival, and are passable because of me. The owner of the fields ……; it rises (?) up to his chest. I have freed the sons of the poor from their duty of going to fetch firewood.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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