ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: SU.KUR.RU
Values: sud₃, šuruppag

The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.23

mucen-e	ka	jic-gi-a-ka	gud<sub>3</sub>	im-ma-ni-ib-us<sub>2</sub>
mucen	ka	jic-gi	gud₃	us₂
bird	mouth	reedbed	nest	to be adjacent

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Paragraph t535.p3 (line(s) 22-28) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

Then Fish laid its eggs in the lagoons; Bird built its nest in a gap in the reedbeds. But Bird frightened the Fish of the lagoons in its ……. Fish took up a stand and cried out. Grandiosely it initiated hostilities. It roused the street by quarrelling in an overbearing manner. Fish addressed Bird murderously:

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary