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N 2983 (P278047)
Administrative, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 2983 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278047 |
| Museum no. | N 2983 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] ⸢dug₄⸣-ga [...] | ... the eduga ritual |
| 2' | {[d}mu-ul-lil₂ a-a] ⸢ka⸣-na-aŋ₂-[ŋa₂] | Enlil, father of the Eanna temple |
| 3' | [sipa saŋ-gig₂]-ga | shepherd of the sick |
| 4' | [i-bi₂ du₈] ni₂-te-⸢na⸣ | before Nīte-ena’e |
| 5' | [am erin₂-na] di-⸢di⸣ | wild bull of the troops, Idi’e |
| 6' | [u₃ lul-la ku-ku gu₄]-⸢sun₂⸣ mu-zu kur-kur-še₃ | Sleeping falsely, wild ox?, your name over all the lands |
| 7' | [mu-zu kur-kur-ra mu]-⸢ma⸣-al-la-še₃ an ⸢ni₂ dub₂⸣ | Because your name is exalted in all the lands, heaven trembles before you |
| 8' | ⸢ki⸣ ni₂-bi nam-⸢sag₃⸣ | E-e-e, whose fearsomeness cannot be undone, |
| 9' | [dug₄-ga-zu kur-ra am₃]-da-ma-al-⸢la⸣-[še₃] | Your good deeds are available in the netherworld |
| 10' | [dah-a-zu kur-ra am₃-da]-⸢ma⸣-al-la-še₃ an [ni₂ dub₂] | When you ascend the mountain, heaven trembles with fear. |
| 11' | ⸢ki⸣ ni₂-bi [nam-sag₃] | the E-e-e temple, its fearsomeness will not be released |
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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