ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: ḪAgunu (GIR)
Values: biš, gir, peš

The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba-a C) (c.5.1.3), line c513.63

nam	i-ri-tar-ra	mu-na-ra-kur₂-ru	šu	zid	ḫa-ra-an-ĝa₂-ĝa₂	šu	dug₄-ga	^dnisaba-me-en	gu₂	an-še₃	...
nam	tar	kur₂	šu	zid	ĝar	šu	dug₄	nisaba	gu₂	an	...
destiny	to cut	to be different	hand	right	to place	hand	to say	Nisaba (DN)	neck	heaven	...

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Paragraph t513.p13 (line(s) 62-72) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"Nisaba has placed in your hand the honour of being a teacher. { For her, the fate determined for you will be changed and so you will be generously blessed } { (1 ms. has instead:) You were created by Nisaba! May you …… upwards }. May she bless you with a joyous heart and free you from all despondency. …… at whatever is in the school, the place of learning. The majesty of Nisaba …… silence. For your sweet songs even the cowherds will strive gloriously. For your sweet songs I too shall strive and shall ……. They should recognise that you are a practitioner (?) of wisdom. The little fellows should enjoy like beer the sweetness of decorous words: experts bring light to dark places, they bring it to culs-de-sac and streets."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary