N 5107 (P228368)
Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 5107 |
|---|---|
| ID | P228368 |
| Museum no. | N 5107 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By ORACC project dcclt · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse Column i [0:1] r i 1'r i 1'–r i 1'r i 1' | soup made with good quality barley groats |
| Reverse Column i [1:2] r i 2'2'–r i 2'2' | soup made with turnips |
| Reverse Column i [2:3] r i 3'3'–r i 3'3' | soup made with the dunla plant |
| Reverse Column i [3:4] r i 4'4'–r i 4'4' | soup made with the ganše plant |
| Reverse Column i [4:5] r i 5'5'–r i 5'5' | soup made with the maš plant |
| Reverse Column i [5:6] r i 6'6'–r i 6'6' | soup made with the maš plant |
| Reverse Column i [6:7] r i 7'7'–r i 7'7' | soup made with the adara plant |
| Reverse Column i [7:8] r i 8'8'–r i 8'8' | soup made with the (...) plant |
| Reverse Column i [8:9] r i 9'9'–r i 9'9' | porridge |
| Reverse Column i [9:10] r i 10'10'–r i 10'10' | good quality porridge |
| Reverse Column i [14:15] r i 15'15'–r i 15'15' | (...) soup of the cauldron |
| Reverse Column i [15:16] r i 16'16'–r i 16'16' | meat broth |
| Reverse Column ii [1:2] r ii 2'2'–r ii 2'2' | (...) sweetened beer |
| Reverse Column ii [2:3] r ii 3'3'–r ii 3'3' | (...) sweetened beer |
| Reverse Column ii [3:4] r ii 4'4'–r ii 4'4' | beer for royal consumption |
| Reverse Column ii [4:5] r ii 5'5'–r ii 5'5' | good quality beer |
| Reverse Column ii [5:6] r ii 6'6'–r ii 6'6' | sweetened beer for a freewill offering |
| Reverse Column ii [6:7] r ii 7'7'–r ii 7'7' | good quality beer |
| Reverse Column ii [7:8] r ii 8'8'–r ii 8'8' | ordinary quality beer |
| Reverse Column ii [8:9] r ii 9'9'–r ii 9'9' | emmer beer |
| Reverse Column ii [9:10] r ii 10'10'–r ii 10'10' | emmer beer |
| Reverse Column ii [10:11] r ii 11'11'–r ii 11'11' | premium emmer beer |
| Reverse Column ii [11:12] r ii 12'12'–r ii 12'12' | beer exposed to a lot of sunlight |
| Reverse Column ii [12:13] r ii 13'13'–r ii 13'13' | beer exposed to a little sunlight |
| Reverse Column ii [13:14] r ii 14'14'–r ii 14'14' | (...) beer |
| Reverse Column ii [14:15] r ii 15'15'–r ii 15'15' | (...) beer |
| Reverse Column ii [15:16] r ii 16'16'–r ii 16'16' | beer made with (...) flour |
| Reverse Column ii [16:17] r ii 17'17'–r ii 17'17' | (...) beer |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | [a]-ba-gin7# al#-[dim2] | |
| 2' | [a]-ba in-da#-[...] | |
| 3' | [a]-ba in-da#-[...] | |
| 4' | [a]-ba ki-tum2# [...] | |
| 5' | [a]-ba# szu# en#-[...] | |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | [tu7 ar-za-na] sag10 | |
| 2' | [tu7 lu-ub2]{sar} | |
| 3' | [tu7 tun3]-la2{sar} | |
| 4' | [tu7 GAN2]-sze#{sar} | |
| 5' | [tu7 {gesz}]masz{sar} | |
| 6' | [tu7 ...] masz{sar} | |
| 7' | [tu7 a-dar]-ra#{sar} | |
| 8' | [tu7 ...] x{sar} | |
| 9' | [tu7 ba-ba]-da | |
| 10' | [tu7 ba-ba]-da# sag10# | |
| 11' | [...] x | |
| 12' | [...]-da | |
| 13' | [...] A | |
| 14' | [...] KA x-ga | |
| 15' | [tu7 UD szen]-na | |
| 16' | [tu7 uzu]-bala | |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | kasz# [...] | |
| 2' | {kasz}dida? [...] | |
| 3' | {kasz}dida? [...] | |
| 4' | kasz nag lugal# | |
| 5' | kasz sag10# | |
| 6' | {kasz}dida szag4-ga [...] | |
| 7' | kasz sag10# | |
| 8' | kasz gen# | |
| 9' | uluszin3 | |
| 10' | uluszin3 | |
| 11' | uluszin3 mah# | |
| 12' | kasz u4 [tab-ba] | |
| 13' | kasz u4 sal-[la] | |
| 14' | kasz [...] | |
| 15' | kasz IG-[...] | |
| 16' | kasz zi3 x-[...] | |
| 17' | kasz# [...] | |
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