UM 55-21-393 (P228928)
Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UM 55-21-393 |
|---|---|
| ID | P228928 |
| Museum no. | UM 55-21-393 |
| 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 ii [0:1] r ii 1'r ii 1'–r ii 1'r ii 1' | (...) barley |
| Reverse Column ii [1:2] r ii 2'2'–r ii 2'2' | (...) barley |
| Reverse Column ii [2:3] r ii 3'3'–r ii 3'3' | irrigated barley |
| Reverse Column ii [3:4] r ii 4'4'–r ii 4'4' | grain dried after the flood |
| Reverse Column ii [4:5] r ii 5'5'–r ii 5'5' | grain that is (...) with sunlight |
| Reverse Column ii [5:6] r ii 6'6'–r ii 6'6' | fresh green barley |
| Reverse Column ii [6:7] r ii 7'7'–r ii 7'7' | sprout |
| Reverse Column ii [7:8] r ii 8'8'–r ii 8'8' | barley beginning to head |
| Reverse Column ii [8:9] r ii 9'9'–r ii 9'9' | ear of barley |
| Reverse Column ii [9:10] r ii 10'10'–r ii 10'10' | stalk |
| Reverse Column ii [10:11] r ii 11'11'–r ii 11'11' | barley stubble |
| Reverse Column ii [11:12] r ii 12'12'–r ii 12'12' | barley afflicted by ergot |
| Reverse Column iii [1:2] r iii 4'4'–r iii 4'4' | split (...) |
| Reverse Column iii [2:3] r iii 5'5'–r iii 5'5' | bunch of fruit |
| Reverse Column iii [3:4] r iii 6'6'–r iii 6'6' | bunch of apples |
| Reverse Column iii [4:5] r iii 7'7'–r iii 7'7' | bunch of figs |
| Reverse Column iii [5:6] r iii 8'8'–r iii 8'8' | bunch of pomegranates |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | sze# [...] | |
| 2' | sze x# x# [...] | |
| 3' | sze a de2-[a] | |
| 4' | sze a-ta de2#-[a] | |
| 5' | sze u4-de3 ri-a | |
| 6' | sze ha-ba-zi-in | |
| 7' | henbur | |
| 8' | sze lillan | |
| 9' | an sze | |
| 10' | isin | |
| 11' | szub5 sze | |
| 12' | mug [sze] | |
| 13' | x# [...] | |
| reverse col 3 | ||
| 3' | [...]-us2#?-a | |
| 4' | [...]-dar#?-ra | |
| 5' | [ga]-ra#-an | |
| 6' | [ga]-ra#-an haszhur!(MA) | |
| 7' | [ga]-ra#-an pesz3 | |
| 8' | [ga-ra-an] nu-ur2-ma | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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