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N 4001 (P278943)
Scholarly or scientific, Neo-Babylonian, Nippur · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | N 4001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278943 |
| Museum no. | N 4001 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Scholarly or scientific |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 10 | .......... |
| obverse 6' | he shall not take away the seed. |
| obverse 13' | sikillu-plant, kurkannam-plant of the land |
| reverse 16 | ...... his flesh... |
| obverse 12' | Its ritual: tarmu-plant, imurlim-plant, imur-e-ra |
| reverse 17 | Written and collated. |
| reverse 18 | (Property of) Babylon, according to its original. |
| obverse 11' | Wording of a woman that has not given birth to a woman. |
| reverse 3 | ... and... you did not... |
| reverse 5 | ...... |
| reverse 15 | exorcist Gula-balassu-iqbi |
| obverse 10' | I, as long as I live,... the incantation |
| reverse 9 | ... that woman |
| obverse 16' | You... a meal for a libation bowl. |
| reverse 14 | From Sîn-multir, exorcist. |
| obverse 17' | You set up a censer (made) of juniper before Enzû. |
| obverse 1' | (is) his(?) servant |
| obverse 7' | in the furrow may he be given, and |
| obverse 20' | You sat on the... day. |
| obverse 8' | ... my heart |
| reverse 2 | ... kurkanamsar plant |
| obverse 4' | ...,...,...,...,..., |
| obverse 9' | the work of Ea and Asalluhi |
| obverse 18' | Incantation: You recite 3 times in its midst. |
| reverse 19 | ... is well. |
| obverse 15' | You mix with beer from a small censer. |
| obverse 14' | 7... 6 plants. |
| obverse 5' | the field he enlarged |
| reverse 1 | The 3rd day, until... |
| reverse 6 | ... of |
| obverse 3' | her(?)..., the place behind her, |
| obverse 2' | her... the earth has been destroyed |
| reverse 13 | to the netherworld to the netherworld |
| reverse 4 | to...... did not enter |
| reverse 11 | above... 2? eyes |
| obverse 19' | ... he does not... |
| reverse 12 | ... no one shall take away. |
| reverse 7 | If that woman... |
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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