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Post by sheshki on Dec 18, 2007 19:53:22 GMT -5
hello friends, i just finished some work with photoshop, i tried to write : kur gul-gul an-da me ba-a nin-ju10 hi-li gu2 e3 dinana za3-mi2 which hopefully means : Praise be to the destroyer of foreign lands, endowed with divine powers by An, to my lady enveloped in beauty, to Inana! here is the picture: www.herbst9.de/mov/test_sum.jpgnow i need someone who can tell me if: 1. transliteration and translation are identical 2. i found the right signs the sumerian quote is taken from etcsl(t.4.07.2 last two lines) and the signs are found at ePSD. thank you frank |
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Post by amarsin on Dec 20, 2007 17:34:38 GMT -5
Looks right to me.
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Post by amarsin on Dec 20, 2007 17:35:39 GMT -5
Ohm, except you should keep the dingir sign next to the Inanna sign, and not split them on 2 lines
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Post by sheshki on Dec 21, 2007 15:52:52 GMT -5
hey amarsin,
thank you for your quick help.
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Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Dec 22, 2007 3:23:16 GMT -5
Thanks Amarsin - your eye is always keenly appreciated!  . I think your taking some great steps working with cuneiform Sheshki as a layman I find that encouraging, I had wanted to suggest or present here an additional tactic that could be of use to us with these kinds of questions in the future but Ive had only limited success. If your able to take a reasonable piece of Sumerian such as you have and match it to cuneiform sign relying heavily on the ePSD (which I think you have), I thought another good way to check the result would be by viewing the cuneiform from the original cuneiform tablet. Ive always been meaning to develop this ability through careful use of the CDLI website - however in attempting to find your line to test this idea, Ive come up a bit short. Noting the transliteration of the text you've been focusing on, lines 153 and 154 of the ETCSL text Hymn to Inana B (located here) I see they have given approx. 94 cuneiform sources for this composition. That is 94 tablets and fragments containing this same hymn were considered and to varying extents utilized in constructing the 'finished' product seen in translation at ETCSL. However after searching CDLI by the 94 museum numbers given at ETCSL, I found only 3 of these to contain images of the tablet or fragment. they are: -AO 06713 -CBS 08507 -CBS 13313 So about what were were talking about earlier I suppose I did manage to "hunt down" that tablet, or at least found through CDLI 3 results out of 94 which contain line drawings. However these three are not ideal, and I haven't been able to find line 153 and 154 though they should appear, I would think, at the bottom of AO 06713. But then this tablet appears to only have some 94 lines. Therefore the strategy of checking cuneiform through CDLI is (no surprise) less straight forward then Id hoped. But in pondering why this didn't work and trying again a number of times, we might stand to learn something about cuneiform, cuneiform tablets and a wonderful internet resource. |
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Post by sheshki on Dec 22, 2007 19:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by saharda on Dec 26, 2007 21:14:36 GMT -5
Nice aesthetic. We should have a thread about art.
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. I think your taking some great steps working with cuneiform Sheshki as a layman I find that encouraging, I had wanted to suggest or present here an additional tactic that could be of use to us with these kinds of questions in the future but Ive had only limited success.