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NABU 2012/043 (P276487)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | NABU 2012/043 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276487 |
| Museum no. | N 1340 + N 1464 + N 6797 + N 7473 |
| 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 | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] AN x x [...] | ... ... |
| 2' | [...]-ba x-[...] ⸢zi⸣-i-NE-en-[...] | In its ... the ezi-e-i-en-temple |
| 3' | ⸢a⸣-ba-am₃ [x] in-ne-en-x-[...] | It is an ea-eba |
| 4' | na₈-an-ze₂-en na₈-an-ze₂-[en] | Let me drink, let me drink! |
| 5' | eme-sig na-ab-be₂-en-ze₂-[en] | You should not speak emessig |
| 6' | ur₅-gin₇ in-ne-en-⸢dug₄⸣ [...] | Like a dog, he screamed |
| 7' | kaš in-ne-en-šum₂-mu-⸢uš⸣ x | He will pour beer for you |
| 8' | šag₄-ge ba-dug₃ bar-e ba-sag₉ eme-e ba-te ; ⸢ŋeli₃⸣ ba-gid₂-i-ne | The heart was satisfied, the liver was good, the tongue approached, the ešbeli ritual was repeated |
| 9' | [x] x-A-ŋu₁₀ im-ma-[...] MU x-a a ba-de₂ | ... bathed. |
| 10' | [...] ⸢bi₂⸣-in-gu₇ a [...] na-te x x | ... eats ... |
| 11' | [...]-e-ši-in-gi₄ im-⸢ma⸣-ŋen-ne-en | ... turned back(?) |
| 12' | [...]-⸢gi₄⸣-a-zu a₂-ni nu-mu-⸢un⸣-dah | ... your ... does not raise its arms |
| 13' | ⸢mu⸣-e-ŠUM₂ nu-mu-[...] | “I did not ... the e’e-šum prayer |
| 14' | ⸢gu₃⸣ nu-mu-e-de₂ nu-⸢mu⸣-[...] | “If he does not come out, he will not ... |
| 15' | [...] x lu₂ x ⸢in⸣-x-[...] | ... a man |
| 16' | [...] x A x [...] x [...] | ... ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x-na x [...] | ... ... |
| 3' | [...] ⸢he₂-am₃⸣ | ... may it be a house! |
| 4' | [...] mu-e-ŠUM₂ la-ba-DU-⸢e⸣-[x] | ... did not ... for you |
| 5' | [...] x-MU gu₂-⸢tuku⸣-a-⸢gin₇⸣ | ... like a lion |
| 6' | [...] x ⸢bi₂⸣-in-du₃-u₃ nam-[x] | ... built ... |
| 7' | [...] x nu-mu-ta-gi₄-x-[...] | ... did not return |
| 8' | [...] x ⸢muš-lah₅⸣ x | ... emušlaḫ |
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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