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N 3605 (P278623)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3605 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278623 |
| Museum no. | N 3605 |
| 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' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...] x | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢sila₄⸣ | ... esila plant |
| 4' | [...] ⸢sila₄⸣ | ... esila plant |
| 5' | [...] x-KU | ... ... |
| 6' | [...] ⸢im⸣-gub | ... stand(?) |
| 7' | [...] x ZU-NI | ... its position |
| 8' | [...] x ZU-NI | ... its position |
| 9' | [...] x-NI | ... ... |
| o? ii | ||
| 1' | nin ⸢di-di⸣ [...] | The lady who keeps wandering about |
| 2' | nin u₄ zal-⸢še₃⸣ [...] | Lady who makes the storm pass by |
| 3' | u₄ zal ŋi₆ zal-⸢še₃⸣ [...] | The day passed, the night passed |
| 4' | uru₂-a mu-lu ⸢uru₂⸣ [...] | In the city, the one of the inner city |
| 5' | e₂-a mu-lu e₂ x [...] | In the house, the one of the house ... |
| 6' | i₇ ku₃-ŋal₂-e ir [...] | The pure canal ... |
| 7' | a-e mu-un-x [...] | The water ... |
| 8' | u₈-gin₇ [...] | Like a ewe |
| 9' | ud₅-⸢gin₇⸣ [...] | Like a goat |
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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