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N 4124 (P278999)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 4124 |
|---|---|
| ID | P278999 |
| Museum no. | N 4124 |
| 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 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x-⸢bi⸣ ba-⸢ge₁₆-le⸣-[eŋ₃] | Its ... was destroyed |
| 3' | [ša₃-bi lil₂-la₂]-⸢am₃⸣ bar-bi lil₂-la₂-⸢am₃⸣ | Its inside is a ghostly ghost, its outside is an evil ghost |
| 4' | [ša₃-bi] si-ga i₃-gul-gul | Its interior is destroyed |
| 5' | ša₃-bi šir₃ er₂-ra mu-lu im-⸢ta-an-e₃⸣ | Its inside is a weeping heart, the one emerges. |
| 6' | e₂ zi-da sahar ba-da-dub-dub ⸢sahar ba-da⸣-šu₂-⸢šu₂⸣ | In the true house dust was heaped up, the esahar emptied. |
| 7' | e₂ zi-da im nam-mu-un-e₃ ⸢alal iri ad x⸣ [x] | Do not leave the true house! “Ealal, the city ... |
| 8' | ⸢e₂ zi⸣-[da u₄] ⸢zalag⸣-ga nam-mu-un-e₃ ki ⸢gibil⸣-la x [...] | Do not leave the true house, the shining day, the new place |
| 9' | [...] ⸢u₁₈⸣-lu mu-un-DU-DU x [x] | ... the elu priestess ... |
| 10' | [...] lil₂ mu-un-bu-bu-[bu] | ... is filled with a ghost |
| 11' | [ka₅-a kun]-⸢bi⸣ mi-ni-ib-⸢ur₃-ur₃⸣ | he smashed its gate. |
| 12' | [dar{mušen}e gu₃] ⸢il₂-la⸣ im-ta-de₂-⸢de₂⸣ | The raven cries out in the high steppe |
| 13' | [...] x-ra-hul ⸢tum₁₂{mušen}bi⸣ [...] | ... destroyed, its tummuš-birds |
| 14' | [...] x x x [...] |
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
- 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)
- 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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