Unread Atlas
CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 001 (P278127)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278127 |
| Museum no. | N 3066 (+) N 3141 + N 4656 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1’ | ta-[...] | You ... |
| 2’ | ⸢a-da⸣-[...] | |
| 3’ | ⸢tukum⸣-[...] ; ⸢ni₂⸣ [...] | “If(?) ... ..., ... |
| 4’ | ze₄-e-⸢me⸣ [...] ; x ⸢x⸣ [...] | “I want to go out, I want to come out |
| 5’ | ⸢tukum-bi⸣ [...] ; ⸢na-aŋ₂⸣-[...] | “If(?) ... ..., |
| 6’ | ze₄-e gaba-ri-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [...] ; mu-e-x-[...] | I am the one who ... the rival |
| 7’ | mu-⸢lu al⸣-hi-[...] | (Sum) The lord, the one who is enraged(?) (Akk) The one that is angry(?) |
| 8’ | ba-hi-⸢li-nam⸣ [...] | Baḫi-eli-name |
| 9’ | gi₄-⸢in dag-ge₄⸣-[...] | (Sum) The young woman, the one who is torn apart(?) (Akk) I am the young woman that is to be ripped apart |
| 10’ | KA-NI-še₃ ⸢gub⸣-[...] | At his utterance the E-gub-e- |
| 11’ | na-⸢aŋ₂-hi⸣ [...] | Na’eaḫi |
| 12’ | ⸢uru₂ niŋen₂ kar⸣ [...] | The city, a haunted place |
| r | ||
| 1’ | mu-[...] | he ... |
| 2’ | ⸢e₂⸣-[...] | E-e-[...] |
| 3’ | {⸢ŋeš⸣}[...] | The ešu-priestess |
| 4’ | ⸢u₄⸣-[...] | “When(?) |
| 5’ | ⸢kiše₄⸣ [...] | The ekiše plant |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.