CDLI Literary 000795, ex. 016 (P229699)
Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000795, ex. 016 |
|---|---|
| ID | P229699 |
| Museum no. | N 5863 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Wisdom or proverb |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By Gordon, Edmund · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse Column ii [0:3] r ii' 1'r ii 1'–r ii' 3'3' | [... ] [she has cleared her forehe]ad, sm[ashed the pot of her slavery], |
| Reverse Column ii [3:5] r ii' 4'4'–r ii' 5'5' | (and) [drawn up] for her a document [concerning her cleaning]. |
| Reverse Column ii [5:7] r ii' 6'6'–r ii' 7'7' | As long as she lives she will serve her. |
| Reverse Column ii [7:14] r ii' 8'8'–r ii' 14'14' | She will provide Šāt-Ninurta, her mistress, monthly 40 sila of flour, 2/3 sila of oil (and) annually 6 minas of wool, (as her) barley, oil and wool rations ... |
| Reverse Column iii [0:3] r iii' 1'r iii 1'–r iii' 3'3' | [A woman], nam[ed Amat-Šamaš], the slave-girl of Šamaš-bā[ni], |
| Reverse Column iii [3:5] r iii' 4'4'–r iii' 5'5' | Šamaš-bāni, her master, has freed: |
| Reverse Column iii [5:6] r iii' 6'6'–r iii' 6'6' | he has cleared her forehead, |
| Reverse Column iii [6:8] r iii' 7'7'–r iii' 8'8' | smashed the [pot] of her slavery, |
| Reverse Column iii [8:10] r iii' 9'9'–r iii' 10'10' | (and) drawn up for her a document concerning her cleaning. |
| Reverse Column iii [10:11] r iii' 11'11'–r iii' 11'11' | (He has allotted to her) a built-up house plot of 1 sar, |
| Reverse Column iii [11:14] r iii' 12'12'–r iii' 14'14' | next to the house of Ilī-puṭram, bought from LutilaDI, the smith, |
| Reverse Column iii [14:17] r iii' 15'15'–r iii' 17'17' | 5 iku of the 'small field', bought from Iddin-Ištar ... |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | ud kur₂-še₃ [...] | |
| 3' | ibila [...] | |
| 4' | {m}lu₂-{d}[...] | |
| 5' | u₃ x x | |
| 6' | x x x [...] | |
| 7' | ibila [...] | |
| 8' | x x [...] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢saŋ⸣-[ki-ni in-dadag] | |
| 2' | ⸢dug⸣ [nam-geme₂-ni-še₃] | |
| 3' | ⸢in⸣-[gaz] | |
| 4' | kišib [nam-sikil-la-ni-še₃] | |
| 5' | in-na-[an-tak₄] | |
| 6' | ud til₃-⸢la⸣-ni-[še₃] | |
| 7' | igi-ni-še₃ i₃-⸢gub⸣-[bu] | |
| 8' | itud-da 4(ban₂) zid₂-gu-ta-[am₃] | |
| 9' | 2/3 sila₃ i₃-⸢ŋeš⸣-ta-am₃ | |
| 10' | mu-am₃ 6 ma-na siki-ta-am₃ | |
| 11' | še-ba i₃-ba ⸢u₃⸣ siki-ba | |
| 12' | {f}ša-at-{d}nin-urta | |
| 13' | nin-a-ni-ir | |
| 14' | in-⸢na-ab⸣-kalag-⸢ge⸣ | |
| 15' | x x x [x] | |
| r iii' | ||
| 1' | 1 saŋ-munus] | |
| 2' | [GEME₂-{d}UTU] mu-ni-[im] | |
| 3' | geme₂ {d}UTU-ba-[ni] | |
| 4' | {m}{d}⸢UTU-ba-ni lugal⸣-a-ni | |
| 5' | ama-⸢ar-gi₄⸣-ni in-ŋar | |
| 6' | saŋ-ki-ni in-dadag | |
| 7' | [dug] nam-geme₂-ni-še₃ | |
| 8' | [in]-gaz | |
| 9' | kišib nam-sikil-la-ni-še₃ | |
| 10' | in-na-an-tak₄ | |
| 11' | 1 sar e₂ du₃-a | |
| 12' | da e₂ i₃-li₂-pu-uṭ-ra-am | |
| 13' | kug-ta sa₁₀-am₃ | |
| 14' | ki lu₂-ti-la-DI simug-ta | |
| 15' | 5(iku) gana₂ a-šag₄ ban₃-da | |
| 16' | kug-ta sa₁₀-am₃ | |
| 17' | ki i-din-iš₈-tar₂-⸢ta⸣ | |
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