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TMH 12, 01 (P278952)
Literary, Middle Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | TMH 12, 01 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278952 |
| Museum no. | HS 1885 + N 1338 + N 4026 |
| Collection | Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany; Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 14' | like a... he went |
| reverse 16' | ............ he is the one who has strong strength, |
| reverse 14' | ...... he has all of it. |
| reverse 13' | ... my lord, as he deems best, |
| reverse 7' | ... my lips... |
| obverse 19' | From... to... |
| obverse 16' | the warriors...... |
| obverse 5' | I swore that Gilgamesh was not |
| obverse 7' | All of the enemies he struck down, and the wind |
| reverse 10' | In the stele of your image let me stand. |
| reverse 4' | No one should be allowed to split apart your boxwood among the wood of the mountain |
| reverse 9' | ... I did... like a rainbow... |
| reverse 12' | ..... he stands, to destroy, destroy, and keep safe, |
| reverse 18' | ... their gods not... |
| obverse 18' | Whoever......... |
| reverse 2' | ......... |
| obverse 4' | The ug-dap-pa priest(ess)... the place of agî |
| reverse 11' | ... arki, sage, father, father, father, father(?) |
| obverse 3' | When Erra-kal sat on his throne |
| obverse 8' | I decreed my name in the four quarters. |
| obverse 11' | That which is unsuitable,... a tuqumtu-disease, |
| obverse 12' | ... they did not agree. They... battle. |
| obverse 13' | He... his strong... which he... |
| reverse 19' | ......... |
| reverse 5' | ...... seized...... |
| obverse 6' | they shall slay them. |
| reverse 8' | .............................. |
| obverse 2' | ... I have sworn, and where... |
| reverse 3' | he has returned... the work...... |
| obverse 9' | and the land of the world, he swore by my warriors. |
| reverse 17' | ... in(?) the utensils |
| reverse 15' | .... they will confront you to your mouth. |
| reverse 20' | ......... |
| reverse 1' | We went... |
| obverse 15' | ............ |
| obverse 17' | there is...... |
| obverse 10' | his warriors heard..., |
| reverse 6' | ... of wisdom... |
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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