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CDLI Literary 000486, ex. 004 (P277652)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000486, ex. 004 |
|---|---|
| ID | P277652 |
| Museum no. | N 2571 |
| 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 |
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 11' | He... the bird |
| obverse 8' | He raised the horns of the takarin basket like a wild bull |
| obverse 3' | by Ninlil, Suen, Nusku, Ninimma, uzana, Ennugi and Enkiimdu |
| obverse 10' | ... |
| reverse 5' | My king, the one who smote the lord Ninurta |
| reverse 4' | for the lord Ninurta he set up for him. |
| obverse 12' | ...... |
| obverse 7' | like a snare stretched on the fields, he made them tremble. |
| obverse 2' | By the command of the god Sîn, they will smite him. |
| reverse 1' | by Ninimma, the one who smote(?) |
| reverse 2' | For the lord Ninurta, the divine powers and rites of the barge, the barge |
| obverse 6' | he smote him, he smote him with juniper and deer. |
| obverse 9' | ... great gate |
| reverse 3' | Enkiimdu, the great... of your divinity |
| obverse 4' | by Lisi, NinSAr, Ninamakuga |
| obverse 1' | to the house of Ninurta |
| obverse 5' | Lipit-Itar |
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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