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JCS 72, 138-140 03 (P278396)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | JCS 72, 138-140 03 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278396 |
| Museum no. | N 3356 + N 3402 + N 4238 |
| 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 col 1' | ||
| 1' | [...] x EN? [...]-da | ... lord(?) |
| 2' | [...] x-lil2 ul am3-e3? | ... exudes awe |
| 3' | [...] unu#?{ki}-e kurku2 du10#-ga-kam | It is the ... of Uruk, the sweet kurku |
| 4' | [...] ul am3-mu2 | ... rejoices. |
| 5' | [sa]-gid2#-da-am3 | it is a sagida |
| 6' | [...] x en-da bur-ra | ... with the ... of the bowl |
| 7' | [...] nun#? szar2-ra bur-ra | ... prince(?) of the many bowls(?) |
| 8' | [...] x bur-ra | ... in the bowl |
| 9' | [...] bur-ra | ... in the bowl |
| 10' | [...] sipa?-da! | ... with the shepherd(?) |
| 11' | [...]-da | with ... |
| obverse col 2' | ||
| 1' | esz3 ki zabala{ki} kur zabala#?[{ki?} ...] | Shrine of the land of Zabalam, the land(?) of Zazabalam |
| 2' | sa-gid2-da#-[am3] | it is the sagida |
| 3' | iri-me-a esz3-ta mu-[...] | In our city from the shrine ... |
| 4' | nun-bi-ra esz3 [...] | For this prince, the shrine ... |
| 5' | esz3 abzu x[...] | Shrine Abzu |
| 6' | esz3 nibru[{ki} ...] | Shrine Nippur |
| 7' | e2 [...] | The temple of |
| 8' | du6-sag-dil esz3 [...] | The Dusagdila, the shrine |
| 9' | e2 kesz3{ki} esz3 [...] | The temple of Keš, the shrine |
| 10' | esz3 uri2{ki} esz3#? [...] | Shrine Ur, shrine |
| 11' | esz3 e2-babbar esz3#? [...] | Shrine Ebabbar, shrine |
| 12' | esz3 kul-aba4{ki} [esz3 ...] | Shrine Kulaba, shrine |
| 13' | esz ki zabala{ki} [esz3 ...] | shrine of Zabalam, shrine |
| 14' | [sa?]-gar-[ra-am3?] | it is a sagar |
| 15' | [...] x [...] | |
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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