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CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 001 (P279711)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P279711 |
| Museum no. | N 5500 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1’ | [...]-⸢me-en⸣ | I am |
| 2’ | [...]-⸢la-me-en⸣ | ... I am |
| 3’ | [...]-⸢e-me-en⸣ | I am |
| 4’ | [...]-⸢du₃-e-me-en⸣ | You are the one who makes the king, my lord |
| 5’ | [...]-⸢us₂-e-me⸣-[en] | ... you are |
| 6’ | [...]-⸢ŋa₂-an⸣ | ...-ban-e23 |
| 7’ | [...]-⸢sa₂-sa₂-e-en⸣ | ... to you |
| 8’ | [...]-⸢zu nam-MU⸣ | ... your ... should not arise |
| 9’ | [...]-⸢zu nam-MU⸣ | ... your ... should not arise |
| 10’ | [...] ⸢bad₃ ge um-mi-du₁₁⸣ | ... he erected the great wall |
| 11’ | [...]-⸢te-aš bi₂-ib-ŋal₂⸣ | ... he carried off |
| 12’ | [...]-⸢mun-na mim u₃-ba-ni-du₁₁⸣ | ... did not say anything to him |
| 13’ | [...] ⸢i₃-du₃-e-en⸣ | ... you will build a temple |
| 14’ | [...] ⸢im-NI-ŋa₂-ŋa₂-ne⸣ | ... the ImNI-bane temple |
| 15’ | [...] ⸢sir₂-bi dugud⸣-da | ... its roof beams are heavy |
| 16’ | [...]-⸢ši-te⸣-en-te-en | ... šīte’enten |
| 17’ | [...]-⸢ge⸣ gu₂ ⸢um⸣-[...] | ... the bank of the Euphrates |
| 18’ | [...]-⸢x-ši-du⸣-[x] | ...-šidu- |
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)
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