UET 6, 0297 (P254879)
Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 6, 0297 |
|---|---|
| ID | P254879 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Wisdom or proverb |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
English translation
By Guerra, Dylan M. · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | With artfulness followed, |
| obverse 2 | in artfulness, one knows; |
| obverse 3 | from cleverness followed, |
| obverse 4 | in cleverness, one knows. |
| reverse col 1 1 | 40 |
| reverse col 1 2 | 1,50 |
| reverse col 1 3 | 1,20 |
| reverse col 1 4 | 30 |
| reverse col 1 5 | 1,40,36 |
| reverse col 2 1 | 1,40 |
| reverse col 2 2 | 1 |
| reverse col 2 3 | 40 |
| reverse col 2 4 | 25,25 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | galam-da us2-a | |
| 2 | galam-a mu-ni-in-zu | |
| 3 | ku3-zu-ta us2-a | |
| 4 | ku3-zu mu-ni-in-zu | |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | 4(u) | |
| 2 | 1(disz) 5(u) | |
| 3 | 1(disz) 2(u) | |
| 4 | 3(u) | |
| 5 | 1(disz) 4(u) 3(u) 6(disz) | |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1 | 1(disz) 4(u) | |
| 2 | 1(disz) | |
| 3 | 4(u) | |
| 4 | 2(u) 5(disz) 2(u)# 5(disz)# | |
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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