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CDLI Literary 000370, ex. 020 (P278755)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000370, ex. 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278755 |
| Museum no. | N 3751 |
| 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 Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | [tur-tur-bi utul2-gu10-sze3 gal-gal] szen#? mah#?-[gu10-sze3] | Its small ones, to my potter's oven, large ones, towards my supreme thunder |
| 2 | [kur-gi4{muszen} ki-a ba]-ra#-ab-taka4-a-bi | Its kurgi birds that were not opened up on earth |
| 3 | [ensi2 kur-ra gu2 mu]-un#-gar-re-esz [mu-da]-gu7#-u3-ne | The rulers of the foreign lands gathered together and ate with me. |
| 4 | [en unug{ki}-ga x si?]-musz3-bi-im [x-da {gisz}zi]-gan#-bi-im | It is the lord of Uruk ... its horns and its ... limbs |
| 5 | [... {gisz}rab3] szu# ri-bi-im | It is a reed mat with a raised handle |
| 6 | [... ki us2-sa-a]-bi# | ... the place where it was established |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | [szeg12 e2 gal aratta{ki}-ka sur-sur mah he2-...]-im# | May the great brickwork of Aratta be a supreme roof beam |
| 2 | [... gal-gal aratta{ki}-a nam ...] mah#-bi-im | The great ... of Aratta, whose fate is supreme |
| 3 | [...] ba#?-DU-a-asz [...] gal2 | ... opened(?) |
| 4 | [im-gin7 szu bi2-in-ra] im#-gin7 igi i-ni-in-bar | Like a wind, he looked at the wind |
| 5 | [e-ne {d}inana-da e2-za-gin3 aratta]-ka hu-mu-un-da-an-til3 | May he live with Inana in the lapis lazuli temple |
| 6 | [ge26-e x] an#-ta ki-a gub-ba-a [hu-mu]-da-an-til3-en | May I live with you, ... standing from heaven to earth. |
| 7 | [sze-er-kan2-na dug4 u3 dug3 ku-ku]-da# hu-mu-un-de3-nu2-en | May you lie down in a clean and clean šerkana |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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