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CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 015 (P274254)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P274254 |
| Museum no. | BM 139991 (+) BM 139992 |
| 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 | ||
| 1 | me-ta-am₃ [...] | From where ...? |
| 2 | ga-⸢ba-al nam⸣-[...] | I want to ..., I want [to ...] |
| 3 | ⸢ta-aš ga-ba-al⸣ [...] | I want to go out from there |
| r i' | ||
| 1’ | [...] ⸢lu₂ an⸣-[...] | ... the one of heaven |
| 2’ | [...] ⸢e⸣-ne-bi [...] | ... their ... |
| 3’ | [...] ⸢he₂⸣-en-⸢su₈⸣-[...] | May he/she say to you “May he orsipate(?) me(?) |
| 4’ | [...]-he₂-ŋal₂ mu-[...] | ... he carried away |
| 5’ | [...]-⸢am₃⸣ du₅-ŋu₁₀ lu₂-tab-[...] | (Sum) ... is the one who ... (Akk) I am the one that ...(?) |
| 6’ | [... in]-na-ab-be₂ [...] | ... he says ... |
| 7’ | [...]-ŋu₁₀ ŋe₂₆-e e-⸢ne⸣ [...] | ... they will go out |
| 8’ | [...] ⸢in⸣-gen₇ in-du₃-[...] | ... built like a e’in temple |
| 9’ | [...]-du₁₁ ⸢ša₃⸣ [...] | ... the eša’e temple |
| 10’ | [...]-⸢du₁₁⸣ zu₂ [...] | ... teeth |
| r ii' | ||
| 1’ | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2’ | [...] ⸢x⸣ šu ⸢la⸣ [...] | ... hand ... ... |
| 3’ | ⸢tukum⸣-bi ⸢nam⸣-[...] | If that temple ... |
| 4’ | [...] tu₉ mu-ri-⸢in⸣ [...] | ... clothed in garments |
| 5’ | [...] ⸢tukum⸣-<bi> ha-ma-[...] | ... if ... |
| 6’ | tu₉-gen₇ i₃-tar-en ⸢x⸣ [...] | Like a garment I am dressed, the temple ... |
| 7’ | in nu-zu mu-⸢un⸣ [...] | Who does not know what he is doing |
| 8’ | nam-erim₂ ⸢al⸣ [...] | The evil of elalu-demons |
| 9’ | u₄-da di-da [...] | When I was going with the storm |
| 10’a | diŋir aŋ₂-ge-⸢na⸣ [...] | Ibir, the aŋean priestess |
| 10’b | [...] | |
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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