ETCSLglossingSignSignSignSign name: ḪU.ŠE.ERIN2 (BURU5)
Values: buru5

Nanše and the birds (Nanše C) (c.4.14.3), line c4143.A.18
dnanšenin9za3-mi2dug4-gada-nun-na-ke4-ne
DIĝIR-NANšESAL.KU (MUNUS.KU)ZA3-MI2DUG4-GADIĝIR-A-NUN-NA-KE4-NE
nanšenin9za3-mi2dug4a-nun-na
Nanše (DN)sisterpraiseto sayAnuna (DN)
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Paragraph t4143.p3 (line(s) 10-22) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
She herself …… upon the water like a large pelican (?). Stepping onto earth from heaven, she …… in the water like a holy cow. A holy pelican (?), a white cow, she drank by the water's side. With the towering flood ……. Nanše, shining …… of the Anuna, the great gods! Mistress, Mother Nanše, good woman, ……! Nanše, sister praised by the Anuna! Mother, beautiful matriarch of Enlil! { Nanše } { (1 ms. has instead:) My lady }, delighting in her pelican (?), erected a lapis lazuli shrine, and set the holy pelican (?) by her feet.
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