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CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 024 (P278468)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278468 |
| Museum no. | N 3434 + N 7468 |
| 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 i | ||
| 1 | [...]-⸢še₃⸣ | ...-ese |
| 2 | [...]-⸢en⸣ ; [...]-⸢pa₃⸣-pa₃ | (Sum) ..., ... (Akk) The ... of the gods(?) ... |
| 3 | [...]-gal i₃-tuku-a | ... who has |
| 4 | [...]-ŋa₂ ŋeš bi₂-in-ŋar | ... he imposed upon it |
| 5 | [...]-⸢de₃⸣-en ; [...]-⸢si₃⸣-ge-en | I want to go up to you(?) |
| 6 | [...]-⸢bi₂⸣-AK | ...-ebi-eAK |
| 7 | [...]-⸢ni-in-du₁₀⸣ | ... made perfect for him |
| o ii | ||
| 1 | ŋessalₓ(|GIŠ.TUG₂.PI|){al⸣} [...] ; ⸢sa₆-ge⸣-[...] | “The esala-priestess ..., the saga-priest |
| 2 | dub-⸢sar umum AK⸣ [...] ; ⸢ugula-a-ni mu-x⸣-[...] | The scribe ... his overseer |
| 3 | u₄ ⸢mu₇⸣-gen₇ ba-⸢x⸣-[...] | When like an emû-house it was erected |
| 4 | mu gud-gen₇ ⸢i⸣-[...] | like a wild bull |
| 5 | lu₂ nu-zu [...] ; deš-⸢am₃⸣ [...] | A man who does not know |
| 6 | [x]-⸢gi₇⸣ [...] | ...-egi-e23 |
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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