#once again i apologize to any babylonian sumerian or akkadian scholars in the fandom
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Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh — tablet X, line 55 Dead Boy Detectives (2024) — season 01, episode 07
#dead boy detectives#dbda#charles rowland#edwin payne#jayden revri#george rexstrew#dbdagifs#mygifs#myedits#dbdaedits#dbda and gilgamesh#once again i apologize to any babylonian sumerian or akkadian scholars in the fandom#i'm doing my utmost best#cross referencing like 3 different texts and 4 different dictionaries including ePSD#just to maybe get one cuneiform character right#and i'm less confident about this one than the last set that had cuneiform#anyway for those of you interested#the first gif has the word for “love”#which according to george (2003) was probably part of the word a-ram-mu-šú in line 55#love being râmu#and as far as i can tell that's a pretty strong word for love that sounds pretty damn romantic#and then in the second gif#it's the word for “sick” but i'm pretty sure in this context it's the word translated as “danger” and means a bit more like “troubles”#which again thanks to george (2003) is probably part of the word mar-ṣa-a-ti in this line#and sick/troublesome/difficult is marṣu#anyway i did all this research at like 1:30am so it's probably deeply flawed but whatever#it's a gif for a tv show#it can have incorrect cuneiform and the only one who really cares is me
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