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N 3556 (P278581)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3556 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278581 |
| Museum no. | N 3556 |
| 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 | ||
| 1' | x er₂-ra x [...] | ... tears ... |
| 2' | ⸢e⸣-lum mu-un-x [...] | The important one ... |
| 3' | {d}mu-ul-lil₂ igi ka-na-⸢aŋ₂-ŋa₂⸣ [...] | Enlil before Kana’ea |
| 4' | x na-aŋ₂ tar-tar-re mu-un-dib-be₂-x | ... deciding fates ... |
| 5' | u₃-mu-un-ra saŋ-ŋu₁₀-da huŋ-ga-ŋu₁₀-⸢še₃⸣ | For the lord, may he be glad. |
| 6' | [u₃]-⸢mu⸣-un-e {d}mu-ul-lil₂-⸢le⸣ [...] MU i-ne-em de₃-⸢dug₄⸣ | May the lord, Enlil, utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 7' | [u₃]-⸢mu-un-ra⸣ ša₃-ab-ŋu₁₀-ta huŋ-ga-ŋu₁₀-⸢še₃⸣ | “May the lord come forth from the womb, may he come out! |
| 8' | [u₃-mu]-un-e {d}mu-ul-lil₂-le [...] x ⸢si⸣-ga-ŋu₁₀ i-ne-em de₃-dug₄ | May the lord, Enlil, utter an arazu prayer to you |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣-ta huŋ-ga-ŋu₁₀ x x | ... joy ... |
| 2 | [x x x x]-LIL₂ bar-ra i-bi₂ x [... i-ne]-em de₃-dug₄ | ... may he say this to you. |
| 3 | [e₂-ŋu₁₀] ⸢e₂⸣-a gul-gul-la-ŋu₁₀-[še₃] | In order to destroy the houses and temples |
| 5 | ⸢uru₂-ŋu₁₀ uru₂⸣-a hul-hul-a-ŋu₁₀-[še₃] | In order to destroy the city and the temple |
| 6 | me-e ⸢dim₃-me₂-er-ra⸣ ge₁₆-le-eŋ₃-ŋa₂-[še₃] | I, the emerra priestess, I want to utter an arazu prayer |
| 7 | e₂ na-me ⸢e₂⸣-ŋu₁₀-gin₇ nu-[x x] | No house ... like a house. |
| 8 | uru₂ na-me uru₂-ŋu₁₀-⸢gin₇⸣ nu-[x x] | No city ... like Abu. |
| 9 | dim₃-me₂-er na-me ma-⸢a⸣-[gin₇ ...] | No god compares with me |
| 10 | {d}a-nun-na na-⸢me ma⸣-[a-gin₇ ...] | The Anuna gods, as if they were encircled by the sea |
| 11 | uru₂-a mu-lu₂ ma-⸢a⸣-[gin₇ ...] mu-x [...] | In the city, like a man ... |
| 12 | [...] ⸢nun⸣ [...] | ... the nun plant |
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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