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CDLI Literary 000486, ex. 007 (P278548)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000486, ex. 007 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278548 |
| Museum no. | N 3520 |
| 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 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4 | by uziana, Ennugi, Enkimdu |
| obverse 7 | ... he smote him, he smote him with a thorny ewe and a deer |
| obverse 1 | to the lord Ninurta at the place of his treasure house |
| obverse 8 | ... raised its horns like a wild bull |
| obverse 9 | like a... bound horns, they... the true fields. |
| obverse 2 | They made the divine powers of the god Sîn stand with him. |
| reverse 4' | who makes perfect the divine powers, |
| obverse 3 | by Ninlil, Suen, Nusku, Nin-imma |
| obverse 10 | ... raised up a takarin basket like a wild bull |
| obverse 12 | ...... |
| reverse 2' | Your true scribal art... the scribal art |
| obverse 5 | by Lisi, Nin-SAR, Ninama-kuga |
| reverse 3' | ... seized the great sipar net |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 11 | ... great... |
| obverse 6 | Lipit-Itar |
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
- 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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