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N 3127 (P278183)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3127 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278183 |
| Museum no. | N 3127 |
| 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' | [...] ⸢lul⸣-la ⸢RI⸣ x [...] | ... the lulû-demon, the ešīru-disease |
| 2' | [... lul]-la kin ak [...] | ... sleeping falsely ... |
| 3' | [...] lul-la x-⸢ra⸣ [...] | ... falsely ... |
| 4' | [...]-DAM su₃-⸢ga⸣ [...] | ... a šu’ega temple |
| 5' | [...]-na gul-la [...] | ... destroyed |
| 6' | [...]-⸢na⸣ bu-bu-⸢ra⸣ [...] | ... a bubû-container |
| 7' | [...]-⸢na hul⸣ [...] | ... evil ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | [mušen]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ sug nu-⸢um⸣-[zu-zu a₂ bi₂-ib₂-su₃-e] | If a snake does not know the marshes, he will cut off their arms. |
| 3' | [...] du₅-mu a-e ba-⸢an⸣-[ze₂-eŋ₃] | ... the son ... water |
| 4' | [...]-KA ki ba-al [...] | ... the earth |
| 5' | [...] x-ni mi-ni-in-⸢nu₂⸣ [...] | ... sat down |
| 6' | [u₂-še₃ ŋen-na]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ ba-da-[de₆] | he brought it to Enna-e22-e23. |
| 7' | [a-še₃ ŋen-na]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ ba-da-[de₆] | he brought it to Enna-e22’e23 |
| 8' | [...] ⸢gaba⸣ kur-ra-ka ud hul ⸢ba⸣-[an-da-šub] | In the ... of the Egaba temple in the netherworld, the evil storm enters with you |
| 9' | [...] x-bi hu-mu-un-[...] | ... may ... |
| 10' | [...] x-bi ki-ib{⸢mušen⸣} [...] | ... its ... the place of the emušše temple |
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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