ETCSLglossing | Sign name: ḪU.NA2 (SA4) Values: sa4, še21 |
sag<sub>9</sub>-ga | cag<sub>4</sub>-ge | cu | nu-bar-re |
sag9 | cag4 | cu | bar |
to be good | heart | hand | to set aside |
When you bring a slave girl from the hills, she brings both good and evil with her. The good is in the hands; the evil is in the heart. The heart does not let go of the good; but the heart cannot let go of the evil either. As if it were a watery place, the heart does not abandon the good. Evil is a storeroom ……. { (1 ms. adds:) (2 lines unclear) } May the boat with the evil sink in the river! May his waterskin split in the desert! |
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary |
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