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CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 052 (P278252)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278252 |
| Museum no. | N 3006 + N 3128 + N 3199 |
| 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 | hur-saŋ [...] | The mountain range |
| 2 | u₄ an-ne₂ ⸢diŋir⸣ [...]-⸢na im⸣-[...] | The storm that An erected in the midst of heaven |
| 3 | mu {d}⸢ezinam₂⸣ [...]-⸢da⸣-an-du₂-[...] ; nu-ub-⸢da-an⸣-si₁₂-⸢ga⸣-[...] | year: “Eeziname ... did not ... |
| 4 | kalam-ma ⸢gu⸣ {[d]}uttu nu-ub-⸢da⸣-[...] | In the land the throne of Šamaš did not rise |
| 5 | {d}⸢uttu temen⸣ nu-mu-⸢un⸣-[...] | Emuttu, the foundation of heaven, did not rise |
| 6 | ⸢u₈ nu⸣-[...] sila₄ nu-[...] | The ewe does not ..., the lamb does not |
| 7 | ud₅ ⸢nu⸣-[...] ⸢maš₂ nu⸣-[...] | The nanny goat does not go out into the pastures |
| 8 | u₈-⸢e⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | The ewes |
| 9 | ud₅-⸢e⸣ [...] | The nanny goats |
| 10 | mu {⸢d⸣}[...] | year: “Enlil-Eštar |
| r | ||
| 1’ | ⸢udu-gen₇⸣ [...] | Like a sheep |
| 2’ | a sar-⸢sar⸣-[...] | Water of the sar-esar temple |
| 3’ | u₄-ba ki (⸢SIG₇⸣.[ALAN) ...] | At that time, the place of the ešagān plant |
| 4’ | e₂-bi ⸢du₆⸣-[...] | Its temple, the edu-house |
| 5’ | eš₃ niŋ₂-⸢gu₇⸣ [...] | The shrine that eats food(?) |
| 6’ | he₂-ŋal₂ ⸢u₈⸣ {[d]}⸢ezinam₂⸣-[...] | May it carry off the ewes, the Ezinam temple |
| 7’ | {⸢d}a⸣-nun-na du₆-ku₃-ga-⸢ke₄⸣-[x] | The Anuna gods of the Holy Mound |
| 8’ | ⸢i⸣-im-gu₇-⸢u₃⸣-ne nu-mu-un-⸢de₃⸣-[...] | They do not eat what they eat |
| 9’ | amaš ku₃-⸢ga-ne⸣-ne ga-bi [...] | The milk of the pure sheepfold |
| 10’ | {d}a-nun-⸢na⸣ du₆-ku₃-ga-⸢ke₄⸣-[x] | The Anuna of the Holy Mound |
Sources & licences
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