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N 3683 (P278698)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 3683 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278698 |
| Museum no. | N 3683 |
| 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' | [... ga]-ša-an-an-⸢na⸣ | ... Gašanana |
| 3' | [...] MUŠ₃ an-ki | ... snake of heaven and earth |
| 4' | [...] x ad ša₄ | ... adze |
| 5' | [...] x ku₃ | ... holy |
| 6' | [...]-en | I am |
| 7' | [...]-⸢ru⸣-de₃-en | ... we will go out |
| 8' | [...] ⸢nu₂⸣-de₃ | ... to lie down |
| 9' | [...] x-de₃-en | ... we will ... |
| 10' | [...] x-de₃-en | ... we will ... |
| 11' | [...] x u₄ bi₂-zal | ... passed the day |
| 12' | [...] ⸢u₄⸣ bi₂-zal | ... passed the day |
| 13' | [... u₄] ⸢bi₂⸣-zal | ... the day passed |
| 14' | [...] x x ak-e | ... did |
| 15' | [...]-⸢am₃⸣ | ... is the ... of |
| o? ii' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢bar⸣ [...] | ... ebaru-plant |
| 3' | ⸢e₂⸣ [...] | The temple ... |
| 4' | e-x [...] | ... ... |
| 5' | igi ⸢zi⸣ [...] | before Ezida |
| 6' | kuš₇ ⸢su₃-su₃⸣ [...] | The skin of the esusû plant |
| 7' | u₃ sa₂-sa₂ ⸢me⸣-[ri-a-ni ...] | and the righteous one of his lordship |
| 8' | u₃ nu-ku i-[bi₂-ni i₃-ma-al] | and if he does not sleep, there will be tears. |
| 9' | lu₂ dam-da ⸢nu₂⸣-[ra i-bi₂ mu-un-ŋa₂-ŋa₂] | The man who lies down with the spouse looks at him. |
| 10' | lu₂ du₅-mu-da [nu₂-ra i-bi₂ mu-un-kar₂-kar₂] | She looks at the man with the child. |
| 11' | dam-da ⸢nu₂⸣-[ra i-lu mu-un-na-ab-be₂] | She laments with the spouse in the bedroom |
| 12' | du₅-mu-⸢da⸣ [nu₂-ra i-lu mu-un-na-ab-be₂] | She sings a lament for the child-bearing father |
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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