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CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 074 (P279057)

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

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 074
ID	P279057
Museum no.	N 4192 + N 4211 + unn.
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 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.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	{d}utu# er2#-na [...]	Utu, in his tears
2	lu2 arhusz#-<a>-gin7 [...]	Like a kind person
3	ur#-sag dumu# [...]	Hero, son of
4	[x]-am3# szesz-gal-bi# [...] / umbin hu-[x]-in-[x]	... its elder brother ...
5	[x]-ur3#-ma2-ur3 hur#-sag-ga2#-[x] / hu#-mu-ni-in#-tum2#-[x x]	He brought the ... of the mountain range to him
6	[...] x x [...] / [x]-be2-e#-[...]	... ...
7	[...] ma-[...]	... ...
reverse
1	[x]-sag# 1(disz)-[...]	... 1 ...
2	hur#-sag# 7(disz)#-[...] / {gisz}eren# sza3#-ga#-[...]	The 7 mountain ranges, cedar of the heart
3	en3 nu-un-tar ki [...]	She does not inquire after ...
4	{d}bil4-ga-mes# [...] al-[x x]	Gilgamesh ...

Sources & licences

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