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N 1378 (P276524)
CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 1378 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276524 |
| Museum no. | N 1378 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Hymns > Divine |
| 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 4' | Your statue, you have fashioned(?) like a wild bull, you have fashioned your limbs(?) |
| obverse 11' | May the great gods... fear in your presence |
| obverse 9' | Enlil looked faithfully upon him, decreed a fate |
| obverse 13' | to the uluhhazu shrine, the shrines of the evildoers, the sagsag priests |
| obverse 10' | May your name be exalted in the light of heaven and earth. |
| obverse 14' | When you are to raise your hand against the storm, the evildoer |
| reverse 5' | May your shepherd, your kid, be exorcised for you in the mouth of the udug demon |
| reverse 12' | like a reed basket... |
| obverse 7' | In the Ekur, the exalted shrine, you are the father of Enlil |
| reverse 1' | ... |
| reverse 8' | it is the jegi-jal |
| reverse 11' | the prince, Lipit-Itar, his evil weapon |
| obverse 8' | he will bring it to him. The son of ujargizu determines a great fate. |
| obverse 3' | He poured milk into his good breast, he ate it for you. |
| obverse 12' | At your arrival in the city that is not to be abandoned, may you be praised by yourself |
| reverse 4' | He made the rites of Sumer and Akkad be filled with splendor, he made the land happy. |
| reverse 10' | by Ninurta, lord of the flood, foundation of the enemy |
| reverse 6' | to sajarra |
| reverse 3' | Lipit-Itar |
| reverse 7' | The great hero, prince Lipit-Itar, looked at him (with pleasure) and made him dwell in a peaceful place |
| obverse 6' | Your righteous sealed tablet has taken away, your mother Nintur |
| obverse 5' | In front of the... of Elim, he made a lion-headed man speak kindly. |
| obverse 2' | For Nintur, you have fashioned a scepter for me. |
| reverse 2' | the namtar priestess of Ninurta |
| reverse 9' | the lord of the flood, the cult center of Erima, |
| obverse 1' | to stand by him in prayer |
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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