ETCSLglossingSignSign name: ḪI׊E (BIR)
Values: bir, dubur, giriš

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B) (c.2.4.2.02), line c24202.40
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šešgu5-lišulutu
brotherfriendyoung manUtu (DN)
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Paragraph t24202.p4 (line(s) 39-51) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
I sow fear and confusion in the foreign land. I look to my brother and friend, youthful Utu, as a source of divine encouragement. I, Šulgi, converse with him whenever he rises over there; he is the god who keeps a good eye on my battles. The youth Utu, beloved in the mountains, is the protective deity of my weapons; by his words I am strengthened and made pugnacious (?). In those battles, where weapon clashes on weapon, Utu shines on me. Thus I broke the weapons of the highlands over my knees, and in the south placed a yoke on the neck of Elam. I make the populations of the rebel lands -- how could they still resist my weapons? -- scatter like seed-grain over Sumer and Akkad.
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary

Sumerian scribe

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