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N 2956 (P278022)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 2956 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278022 |
| Museum no. | N 2956 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 2' | I am the shining lion(?) |
| 3' | I am the one who heaps up... and reeds uproots |
| 8' | you are |
| 7' | its u-tag-dag |
| 4' | When you have sworn by that name |
| 10' | I am the shepherd of the temple of Enlil |
| 5' | ... a well...... |
| 6' | I am the... of the rebel land |
| 9' | I am the one chosen by the name of Nanna |
| 1' | ... did not speak a word(?) |
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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