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CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 025 (P278781)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 025 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278781 |
| Museum no. | N 3788 |
| 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)
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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 | ||
| 1′ | [...]-⸢ŋa₂ i-ni-in⸣-[x x] | ... he ... |
| 2′ | [...] ⸢nu-dag-ge pa₃⸣-da-zu | Your ... that is to be abandoned |
| 3′ | [...]-⸢ga⸣-bi sa₂ ⸢he₂⸣-ri-ib-du₁₁ ; [x]-hulu-⸢bi⸣ li-⸢bi₂⸣-in-AK | May he/she say to you “I want to go to the ... of the temple’ |
| 4′ | [...]-⸢a⸣ lu₂ enim zu-ne saŋ hu-⸢mu⸣-ni-kal-le-e-ne | ... may the one who knows words bless him |
| 5′ | [...] ⸢enim⸣-ŋu₁₀-še₃ ba-tuš-u₃-nam ; [x]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ bi₂-du₁₀-⸢ga-am₃⸣ | ... dwelled in the enim-temple, ... was good. |
| 6′ | [...] ⸢dugud⸣-da um-mi-⸢a šu⸣-za ; [x x]-⸢in-ŋar⸣-ra | ... with the throne-bearer, your hand ... |
| 7′ | [...]-⸢tar-ra mu-na⸣-[x]-⸢kur₂-ru⸣ ; [...]-⸢ŋa₂-ŋa₂⸣ | ... he made enter for him |
| r | ||
| 1′ | [...] ⸢du₁₀-du₁₀-ga-še₃⸣ [...] | ... the Eduduga temple |
| 2′ | [...] ŋeš ga-⸢mu⸣-ni-ib-⸢la₂⸣ ; [...] ga-mu-nim-ta₃-⸢ta₃⸣ | ... I want to go up to him(?) ... let me go up (to?) him |
| 3′ | [...]-⸢ga⸣ nu-lu₇{⸢lu⸣}me-en ; [...]-⸢un⸣-pa₃-pa₃-de₃-ne | ... you are the one who is not a lû-demon |
| 4′ | [...] ⸢enim⸣-enim-ma he₂-du₇-bi ; [...]-⸢un⸣-ku₇-ku₇-de₃-e-ne | ... they shall make perfect the ešumeenima offerings |
| 5′ | [...] kukku₂-ga zalag ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | ... shining kukku-vessel |
| 6′ | [...] ⸢sila⸣ ba-an-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | ... the esila-house was erected |
| 7′ | [...] ⸢si sa₂ in⸣ [x]-⸢bi⸣ [...] | ... a reed bundle, ... its ... |
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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