SUMERIAN

LESSON 4
(46) Iri-kagina 1 3:18 (RIME 1.9.9.1) (Lagash, 24th c.) (P222607)
sipad udu siki-ka-ke₄-ne
P1 sipad P3 [ P1 udu P3 [ P1 siki= P5 ak]= P5 ak]= P4 enē= P5 e
P1 shepherd P3 [ P1 sheep P3 [ P1 wool= P5 GEN]= P5 GEN]= P4 PL= P5 ERG
“the shepherds of sheep of wool (= wool-bearing sheep)”
4.9 Please use the enclitic possessive pronouns, the plural-marker, the ergative,
absolutive, or genitive case-marker, and the Sumerian translation of the words
listed below to create the nominal constructions defined by the position of their
constituents. Provide morphemic segmentation and glossing to them, use
bracketing, as well. Use your creativity, more than one solutions are possible. Note
that one of the constructions is erroneous.
Words: temple, child, king, great, kind, mighty, mother, city, shepherd, donkey,
god, man, true, heart, Enlil, Girsu
a) P1 P2 P4 P5
b) P1 P2 P3 [P1 P3 P5] P4 P5
c) P1 P3 [P1 P5] P5
d) P1 P2 [P1 P5] P3 P5
e) P1 P3 P5 P5
f) P1 P5 P1 P3 P5
g) P1 P4 P5 P1 P3 P5
h) P1 P5 P1 P3 [P1 P3 P5] P5
4.10 Transliterate the text Gudea 18 (RIME 3/1.1.7.18, ex. 2) (Lagash, 22nd c.) (P232472)
(Volk 2012 no. 6) (a photo of the text can be found at http://cdli.ucla.edu/P232472)
with the help of Volk’s sign list (2012). Translate the text. Gloss all the words of
the text (except for the verbal form) in the way it is done in this textbook. Then go
to the ETCSRI edition of the text (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/
Q000896), click on the “proofing” link on the left side of the page, and compare
your glosses with ETCSRI’s glossing. Compare the orthography of this text with
that of Ur-Nanshe 26 treated in the exercises of the previous lesson. What are the
differences?
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