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I don't know about original clay tablet on which this was written, but it can be found through the original publication I think: https://www.jstor.org/stable/13
by sir_eliah 5y ago
I don't know about original clay tablet on which this was written, but it can be found through the original publication I think: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1359157 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1359157, if someone has access to JSTOR.
About the interpretation, I myself understand only the:
/igi nu-mu-un-du[8]/ - "I don't see anything"
The rest is a bit above my level. But check this alternative interpretation of this joke: https://twitter.com/abbyfheld/status/1501880993833054208 https://twitter.com/abbyfheld/status/1501880993833054208
- jtbayly 5y agoA friend of mine was taking Akkadian or Sumerian (I can’t remember which) and described the wide range of possible correct translations of a text with a story from class. One student said it was a receipt for the sale of a cow. The prof said that was one real possibility. Another said it was a love poem. Prof agreed again. :shrug: But my favorite translation disagreement is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, I think, where one man insists the proper translation of a line is “the lords of the land of the blazing rockets.”
- xsmasher 5y ago> One student said it was a receipt for the sale of a cow. The prof said that was one real possibility. Another said it was a love poem. Prof agreed again. Isn't this the plot of "Foucault's Pendulum?"
- skullt 5y agoThere's also a comment on that alternative interpretation here: https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1505836278109061121 https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/15058362781090611...