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CDLI Literary 000728, ex. 001 ? (P278493)
Literary, Middle Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000728, ex. 001 ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P278493 |
| Museum no. | N 3462 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 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' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| [...]-⸢x⸣ li-IS-⸢x⸣ [...] | ... may he ... ... | |
| 2' | [...] du-ri₂-[še₃ ...]-⸢x⸣ | ... the day ... |
| [...] a-na da-ri ⸢x-x⸣-ta mu-⸢x-x⸣ | ... forever ... | |
| 3' | [...] an-gin₇ me sikil-⸢bi⸣ | ... like heaven, its pure divine powers |
| [...]-a-BU-u pa-ar-ṣu₂-šu ki-ma ša-me₂-e el-lu₄ | ... his face as if it were pure water | |
| 4' | [...] nam-tag-ga dugud-da-ni | ... his heavy sin |
| [...] ša a-ra-am-šu kab-tu₄ | ... of his great love | |
| 5' | [...] {lu₂}eme-sig-ga-gu₇-gu₇ | ... the emesiga-feast |
| [...] a-kil ka₁₁-ar-ṣi | ... its gatekeepers | |
| 6' | [...] šu hul bi₂-in-du₃-a | ... which had been built in a bad way |
| [...] u₂-ba-an ⸢le⸣-mu-⸢ut⸣-ti₃ i-tar-ra-ṣu₂ | (Sum) ... he smote (Akk) The ... of the netherworld was shattered | |
| 7' | [...] im-ri-a-še₃ mu-un-šub-ba | ... he set up there for you |
| [...] i-na-du-u | ... they will kill | |
| 8' | [...] nam-gu₂ bi₂-in-du₃-a | ... he had built a stele |
| [...] i-⸢ha⸣-bi-⸢lu₄⸣ | ... he will bring out. | |
| 9' | [...] saŋ-e-eš bi₂-in-⸢rig₇⸣ | ... he presented it as a gift |
| [...] ⸢i⸣-[...]-⸢x⸣ | ... ei(?) | |
| 10' | [...]-⸢x-x-a⸣ | ...-ae23 |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣-za | ... your |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x mu⸣-ri-in-zal-zal-e-ne | ... they pass by for you |
| 4' | [...] ⸢x pa⸣ e₃ | ... emerges |
| 5' | [...] ⸢x {d}nin-urta za₃⸣-mi₂-zu dug₃-ga | ... Ninurta, your praise is sweet |
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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