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CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 033 (P278760)

Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationCDLI Literary 000782, ex. 033
IDP278760
Museum no.N 3757
CollectionPenn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreLiterary
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
obverse
1'[...]
2'[{d}] ezina2#-ra# [...]For the god of the festival
3'kir11 asz2 nam-[...]The female lamb ...
4'{gesz}mi-si-sahar#-ra# [...] dumu-nita in#-[...]The sisahar tree ... the son
5'dam nam-mu-kar-re gu3 KA# [...]Do not marry a spouse, ...
6'ki dam kar nam-silig gum-ga2-[x]at the place of marriage, the quay of strength
7'a giri3 a gu2 nigin2-na ga-am3-ma#-[...]I want to ... the water of the feet and the water(?) of the neck
8'lu2 gu-la a2 disz-e ga-na#-[...]Great man, I want to ... the power of the god
9'galam-ma na-an-ug5-ge-en# [...]You should not kill a gala priest
10'[...]-a-gim {d}nanna#-[...]Like(?) ... Nanna
reverse
1'[...] la [...] u2 de5-ge# [...]... not ... food rations
2'kadra inim#-[...]The word of ...
3'e2-gal#-[...]The palace
4'kadra# [...] mul#-[...]The kalû festival ... the star
5'na-de5 szuruppak dumu# [...]the nadītu of the šuruppak, son of ...
6'szuruppak# dumu# [...]Šuruppak, son of ...

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