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CBS 06895a + N 1269 (P276420)
Prayer, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CBS 06895a + N 1269 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276420 |
| Museum no. | CBS 06895a + N 1269 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Prayer |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 2 7 | (If) he eats it, he eats it, he eats it, he eats it for him |
| obverse col 1 4 | you are |
| obverse col 2 13' | ......... |
| obverse col 1 2 | I am a pure man |
| obverse col 2 4 | I am the man of Nammu |
| obverse col 2 6 | The evil demon who emerges, the evil demon who emerges, the evil demon who emerges, |
| obverse col 1 7 | ...... |
| obverse col 2 3 | I am the one who makes the people rejoice |
| obverse col 2 11 | ... great... upon a man, son of his (personal) god... |
| obverse col 1 8 | ...... |
| obverse col 2 1 | Incantation:... |
| obverse col 1 3 | I am the man of Adag |
| reverse col 3 6' | of... |
| obverse col 2 10 | ... your exalted... of the heavens. |
| obverse col 2 8 | I made it stand outside (the temple) as a marvel. |
| obverse col 2 2 | ... |
| obverse col 2 9 | Incantation: O lord,... |
| obverse col 2 5 | In order to destroy the udug, in order to destroy the ala and the ala drum, in order to destroy the ghost, |
| obverse col 1 5 | ... I am |
| obverse col 1 1 | I am a pure man |
| obverse col 1 6 | the sag |
| obverse col 2 12' | ...... |
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
- 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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