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N 3316 (P278359)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3316 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278359 |
| Museum no. | N 3316 |
| 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 | a-a {⸢d⸣}[...] | Father Ea, |
| 2 | me-e x [...] | I ... |
| 3 | diŋir e-lum [...] | Important one ... |
| 4 | ki im-DU [...] | ... the place ... |
| 5 | {d}mu-ul-⸢lil₂⸣ [...] | Enlil |
| 6 | a me-še₃ [...] | Oh, the water ... |
| 7 | {d}mu-ul-lil₂ [...] | Enlil |
| 8 | še-eb e₂-kur [...] | In the Ekur temple |
| 9 | dil-mu-un{ki} [...] | Dilmun |
| 10 | {lu₂}ki-sikil x [...] | The maiden |
| 11 | ki-sikil {d}⸢inana⸣ [...] | Maiden Emanae |
| 12 | u₂ GI-bi [...] | and its reeds |
| 13 | DI-DI ⸢mu⸣-[...] | DI-DI (Šumma ālu 31 unknown) means “to ...’ |
| 14 | x [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {d}⸢en⸣-x [...] | E-en-e-x |
| 2' | e₂ sa-par₃ šub-ba-⸢ka⸣ [...] NE [...] | The house, the net of the šubba-house ... |
| 3' | ⸢id₂⸣ a-eštub-ba-ka da-[...] | In the riverbank of the āštub canal |
| 4' | x x nu-me DI-na da-[...] | ... is not ... |
| 5' | ad₆ kam/sur₃ mud na da-[...] | The cattle ... in the mud. |
| 6' | a-a en-na [...] | Father, until when ...? |
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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