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CT 58, 04 (P274199)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 58, 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | P274199 |
| Museum no. | BM 082972 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [...] a id₂-za gi₄-bi | ... returning to your river |
| 2' | [...] x-ke₄ re-a id₂-za gi₄-bi | ... returning to your river |
| 3' | [...] tu₅-tu₅ {id₂}buranun [...] bi₂-lu₃-lu₃ | ... bathed, the Euphrates grew numerous |
| 4' | [ŋeš] ⸢šu⸣-ŋu₁₀ um-ak šu-ŋu₁₀ uri₃-am₃ | It is an ešû-demon that has performed extispicy. |
| 5' | ⸢ŋeš me⸣-ri-ŋu₁₀ um-ak me-ri-ŋu₁₀ mud-am₃ | It is an ešu-demon, it is a merībudemon. It is blood. |
| 6' | [...]-⸢am₃⸣ e-ne X am₃-me-en-ze₂-en | ... we are ... |
| 7' | [...]-⸢an⸣ ku₇-ku₇-dam | ... sweet ... |
| 8' | [...] e-ne X am₃-me-en-ze₂-en | ... we ... |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ku₇-ku₇-dam | ... sweet ... |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | ⸢a-bi⸣ [...] | “Its apsû |
| 2' | šeš-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [...] | Šeš-e23 |
| 3' | ki-sikil ⸢lu₂⸣ [...] | Maiden, elu-priestess |
| 4' | {d}mu-tin ⸢šeš⸣ [...] | “Mutin, the ēšu-priestess, |
| 5' | eden-še₃ KA-[...] | In the steppe |
| 6' | a pa-e₃ [...] | Who makes the waters recede |
| 7' | a KA-⸢KA⸣ [...] | O, KA’eKA! |
| 8' | šeš-zu ⸢x⸣ [...] | Your hand ... |
| 9' | {d}dumu-zi [...] | Dumuzi |
| 10' | a {kuš}⸢ummu₃⸣ [...] | “Alas, the eummû-demon |
| 11' | a {kuš}⸢ummu₃⸣ [...] | “Alas, the eummû-demon |
| 12' | {⸢d⸣}[dumu-zi] [...] | E22dumuzi |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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