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N 3657 (P278673)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3657 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278673 |
| Museum no. | N 3657 |
| 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 5' | sweetened beer made with jesztin beer |
| reverse 4' | as a gift, a good thing for him |
| obverse 4' | a throne with a face in a house |
| reverse 2' | may he write on the road for you |
| reverse 1' | may he bring to him an ox or a hulub or a takarin basket |
| reverse 3' | he built for him a barge on the river like a palace. |
| obverse 2' | May my throne be brought to an end in the house for him |
| reverse 5' | May Shulgi rejoice over him like a small female lamb. |
| obverse 3' | May he bring the table in the pure house for him. |
| obverse 1' | For Shulgi I built the Egal temple for him, and I made it stand in the supreme temple. |
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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