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N 5231 (P279606)
CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Proverbs, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 5231 |
|---|---|
| ID | P279606 |
| Museum no. | N 5231 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Proverbs |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 2' | may he |
| 1' | chosen by |
| 5' | ......... |
| 10' | ...... |
| 6' | he made good |
| 8' | ...... |
| 4' | ...... |
| 9' | ... silver |
| 3' | ... I... |
| 11' | ...-in- |
| 7' | ...... |
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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