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CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 021 (P276891)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 021 |
|---|---|
| ID | P276891 |
| Museum no. | N 1771 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1’ | ⸢ša₃ a/min⸣ [...] | It is the “heart of the ānu-disease-demon |
| 2’ | lu₂ niŋ₂ nu-⸢ge⸣-[...] | The one who does not fear himself |
| 3’ | lu₂ ni₂-[...] | The one who ... fear |
| 4’ | a-na-am₃ [...] | What ...? |
| 5’ | ⸢ama⸣-zu ⸢inda₃⸣ [...] | Your mother-in-law, your šanda priestess |
| 6’ | ad-⸢da⸣ [...] | Adae ... |
| 7’ | ⸢ses⸣ [...] | The ese’e temple |
| r ii' | ||
| 1’ | [...]-⸢re⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... (Akk) You(?) ...(?) |
| 2’ | [...] en-na-bi-še₃-⸢am₃ nu-sun₇⸣ [...] | ... as long as he lives he does not sleep |
| 3’ | [...]-⸢gen₇⸣ erin₂ teš₂-a nu-ub-⸢si₃⸣ | ... did not bring forth the troops together |
| 4’ | [...]-⸢zu⸣ is-hab₂-am₃ ⸢ze₄⸣-e ku₃-zu-am₃ | Your ... is destroyed, your ewe is pure |
| 5’ | [...] ⸢sikil⸣-du₃-a-bi ba-ra-du₁₁ | ... did not say to you “Its esikil-dudība-house!’ |
| 6’ | [...]-⸢mu-e⸣-[...]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣-še₃ ŋar-ra-am₃ | It is the ... of the netherworld |
| 7’ | [...]-an-du₁₁ | ... said |
| 8’ | [...]-⸢x⸣-IL₂ | ...-eil |
| 9’ | [...]-⸢x⸣ | |
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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