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HS 1627 (P229755)

Lexical, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationHS 1627
IDP229755
Museum no.HS 1627
CollectionHilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreLexical
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 45.2300

English translation

By ORACC project dcclt · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1'to go against
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'talkative person
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'response
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'herald
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[city] herald
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'chief herald
Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7'herald of the weavers
Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8'herald of the Martu people
Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9'mayor
Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10'general
Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1general of the troops
Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22general of the ... troops
Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33general of the palace
Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44general of the palace gate
Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55general of the Martu people
Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66overseer
Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77[...] overseer

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1'⸢saŋ⸣ [šum₂-mu]
2'inim [šar₂-šar₂]
3'ba-[an-gi₄]
4'[niŋir]
5'niŋir [iri]
6'niŋir ⸢mah⸣
7'niŋir uš-[bar]
8'niŋir mar-[tu]
9'ha-za-nu-[um]
10'⸢šakkan₆⸣
r
1šakkan₆ [erin₂]
2šakkan₆ ⸢erin₂⸣ [...]
3šakkan₆ ⸢e₂⸣-[gal]
4šakkan₆ kan₄ [e₂-gal]
5šakkan₆ mar-[tu]
6nu-[banda₃]
7nu-⸢banda₃⸣ [x]

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