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N 4100 (P275010)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4100 |
|---|---|
| ID | P275010 |
| Museum no. | N 4100 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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' | [...] x x-a-⸢e⸣ [...] x x ⸢ga-ra-gub⸣ | ... stands for you |
| 2' | [...] x ⸢MU⸣ x ⸢za-e⸣ x x-mu-un-na-ab | ... the temple, the temple of Za’e |
| 3' | [...]-ŋu₁₀ ŋi₆-par₄-gin₇ ga-ra-gub | I want to stand for you like a ... in the ŋipar |
| 4' | [...] x-še₃ A x-la₂ ⸢al⸣-nu₂ šir₃-re-eš ⸢ša⸣-ba-ab-be₂ | ... he will say to you “Alas, the širrê-priestess of the Ša-eba |
| 5' | [...] ⸢u₃⸣-li-li-lum-ma li-a | ... eliluma lia |
| 6' | [... ba-e]-de₃-u₅-a ba-e-de₃-u₅-a | ... when you go, when you come, |
| 7' | [...] x-e šeš-zu ba-an-gam | ... took your hand away |
| 8' | [...] x mu-ud-na-zu ba-⸢e⸣-de₃-u₅-a | ... when your spouse comes out |
| 9' | {[d}ama-ušumgal]-an-na ba-e-de₃-u₅-a | Ama-ušumgal-ana, when you came up |
| 10' | [u₃-mu-un] ⸢e₂⸣-muš₂-a ba-⸢e⸣-de₃-u₅-a | Lord, when you enter the Emuš temple |
| 11' | [...] x-⸢a⸣ {ŋeš}gi-muš gibil-⸢la₂⸣ | ... the new reed fence |
| 12' | [...] ba-e-de₃-u₅-[a] | ... that you had carried away |
| o? ii' | ||
| 1' | {d}ama-[ušumgal-an-na ...] | Ama-usvumgal-ana |
| 2' | a ŋuruš x [...] | Woe, a young male goat |
| 3' | ⸢gi⸣ x [...] | The bride ... |
| 4' | ⸢u₈⸣-gin₇ [...] | Like ewes |
| 5' | x-⸢gin₇⸣ [...] | Like a ... |
| 6' | ŋuruš {⸢d⸣}[...] | a female lamb for the goddess ... |
| 7' | nin₉ x [...] | Sister ... |
| 8' | ⸢ama⸣ [...] | |
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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