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Jeremy Black. Reading Sumerian Poetry p.90 (1998) The Athlone Press

pa-zu an-na sa am₃-ši-im-la₂-la₂-en nu-mu-[…]
ki-še₃ umbin-zu am kur-ra immal₂ kur-ra ^ĝišes₂-ad^!-am₃ ba-nu₂
murgu₈-zu dub sar-sar-re-me-en
ti-ti-zu ^dniraḫ dar-a-me-en
šag₄-sud-zu kiri₆ sig₇-ga u₆-e gub-ba-me-en

Your wings, extending over the sky like a net!
On the ground, your talons are like a trap laid for the wild bulls of the mountains and the wild cows of the mountains!
Your spine - you are one constantly writing tablets!
Your back - you are a green orchard standinf for admiration! 

Lugalbana 120-124 

The bird's back(bone) is described as like that of 'one who constantly writes tablets'. While the context makes clear that the reference is complimentary, it is frankly uncertain if this means, in effect, straight and rigid, as the spine or one who writes tablets perhaps should be - or curved and slightly hunched, as the spine of one who constantly writes tablets might tend to become. Nor is it clear which of these two shapes might be considered desirable for a monstrous, supernatural raptor bird; one suspects the first.