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CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 022 (P278294)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278294 |
| Museum no. | N 3246 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1’ | ⸢ša₃ ge⸣-[...] | The “god-of-the-goddess-demon"(?) |
| 2’ | ni₂-zu [...] | Your fearsomeness |
| 3’ | {uruda}šen-[...] ; [...] | ... copper |
| 4’ | gub-ba [...] | stationed |
| 5’ | ama-⸢x⸣ [...] | Ama-e... |
| r ii' | ||
| 1’ | [...] ⸢bala⸣ | ... the bala |
| 2’ | [...]-⸢ge⸣-na ka ⸢eme-sig gu₇-gu₇⸣ [...] | ... devoured the mouth of Sumerian |
| 3’ | [...] lul-ta (DU.DU) | ... falsely |
| 4’ | [...] ⸢niŋ₂⸣ ma-ab-til-le-ne-a | ..., when they finish his temple |
| 5’ | [...] du₈-du₈ muhaldim iri-ka | ... of the cook of the city |
| 6’ | [...] dam-gar₃-ra-ka KA ⸢NI-še₃ gub⸣-ba | ... of the merchant stationed at the gate of the E-NI |
| 7’ | [...]-⸢ne⸣ šaha₂ zuh-⸢zuh⸣ ; [...] nu-TUŠ-u₃-me-eš | ... they do not dwell in the šaḫ-ṣāb |
| 8’ | [...] še sa-⸢sa⸣ [...] | ... barley rations |
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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