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N 3358 (P278398)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3358 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278398 |
| Museum no. | N 3358 |
| 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' | x [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢ga⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | {⸢d⸣}[...] | E22d-E23 |
| r? ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ama⸣ mu-tin te ba-gig₂-ge ⸢te⸣ [ba-bu-bu-re] | ... the mother of the temple, the young man, how sick she is! The temple is torn out |
| 3' | [...] ama mu-tin an-na te ba-gig₂-ge te ba-⸢bu⸣-[bu-re] | ... mother, young man of heaven, how sick she is, how is she torn out |
| 4' | [...] mu-lu₂ e₂-a-na u₅ nu-ma-al-la-gin₇ te ba-gig₂-⸢ge⸣ | ... like one who does not have oil in his house, how sick he is! |
| 5' | [...] ⸢mu⸣-lu₂ e₂-a-na ga nu-ma-al-la-gin₇ te ba-bu-bu-re | Like a elu-priestess who does not eat milk in her house, how is she torn out. |
| 6' | [...] x šu ku₃-ta te nu-ak-a-gin₇ te ba-gig₂-ge | ... like one who does not act with the holy hand, how sick she is! |
| 7' | [...] ⸢šu⸣ ku₃ ki-ta nu-me-a-gin₇ te ba-bu-bu-re | ... like a holy ešû-house that is not on earth, how is it that it is blown away? |
| 8' | [...] ŋen ga-gig₂ te-a-am₃ ga-bu-bu te-a-⸢am₃⸣ | ... the en priestess, how is she sick? How is she torn out? |
| 9' | [...] x x-da ba-an-du₃ im-⸢ma-an-gig₂⸣-ge | ... built ..., he was ill |
| 10' | [...] er₂-ra ma-an-mar im-ma-[an-bu]-⸢bu⸣ | ... was weeping for me, it was pouring out. |
| 11' | [...] x x x x x 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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