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CDLI Literary 000754, ex. 048 (P278287)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000754, ex. 048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278287 |
| Museum no. | N 3237 + N 3249 + N 5814 (+) N 6468 |
| 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 Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | dumu [...]-la#-am3# [...] i3#-du-de3 | The son of ... is the one who goes(?) |
| 2 | e2-dub#-[...] i3-du-en | I will go to the scribal school |
| 3 | e2-dub#-[...] | The scribal school |
| 4 | dub-[...] i3-[...] | The tablet ... |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [mu]-gub-ba-mu# ma-an-gub-[...] | When I stand, I will stand |
| 7 | kin#-sig im#-szu#-mu ma-an-[...] | The work assignment was completed, ... |
| 8 | [u4] e2-dub-ba-a du8-e-de3 [...] | When the scribal school is to be built |
| 9 | e2#-i i3-ku4-re-en [...] | I will enter the house |
| 10 | ad#-da-mu# im#-szu-mu [...] | My father gave birth to me ... |
| 11 | dub#-mu# [...]-szid# ad-da#-[...] | My tablet ... my father |
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)
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