ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: NE
Values: bar₇, be₇, bi₂, bil, de₃, du₁₇, gibil₄, izi, kum₂, lam₂, lem₄, li₉, ne, ni₅, pel, pil, saḫar_x, šeg̃₆

A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B) (c.2.4.2.02), line c24202.16

nam-dub-sar-ra	ki	nam-kug-zu-ba	lu<sub>2</sub>	im-mi-re<sub>6</sub>-re<sub>6</sub>
nam-dub-sar	ki	nam-kug-zu	lu₂	ĝen
scribe's craft	place	wisdom	person	to go

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Paragraph t24202.p2 (line(s) 11-20) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

I am a king, offspring begotten by a king and borne by a queen. I, Šulgi the noble, have been blessed with a favourable destiny right from the womb. When I was small, I was at the academy, where I learned the scribal art from the tablets of Sumer and Akkad. None of the nobles could write on clay as I could. There where people regularly went for tutelage in the scribal art, I qualified fully in subtraction, addition, reckoning and accounting. The fair Nanibgal, Nisaba, provided me amply with knowledge and comprehension. I am an experienced scribe who does not neglect a thing.

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary