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N 5784 (P279841)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 5784 |
|---|---|
| ID | P279841 |
| Museum no. | N 5784 |
| 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-x-x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] zi-bi he₂-⸢me⸣-[en ...] | ... may you be its life ... |
| 3' | [x]-⸢bi⸣ he₂-me-en x x [...] | May you be its ... |
| 4' | {[ŋeš]}⸢gu⸣-za mah-bi ⸢he₂⸣-[...] | May your supreme throne |
| 5' | [barag] ⸢mah⸣-zu ni₂ gal hu-⸢mu⸣-[...-gur₃] | May your great fearsomeness be carried off to the dais of your great temple |
| 6' | {⸢ŋeš⸣}ŋiri₃-gub-ba-⸢zu he₂⸣-[...] | May your ‘house-of-the-goddess’ be your (own) abode |
| 7' | ⸢e₂⸣-lunga₃-zu ⸢zabar⸣ [...] | Your brewer’s house, the bronze house |
| 8' | ⸢e₂⸣-muhaldim-zu GAR [...] | Your kitchen |
| 9' | ⸢e₂⸣-udun-zu gud ⸢šar₂⸣ [...] | Your Euduna temple, the ox of the šara temple |
| 10' | ⸢e₂⸣-niŋ₂-ŋar-ra-zu GAR [...] | Your E-ni-bara temple |
| 11' | ⸢ŋa₂⸣-nun mah-zu GAR [...] | Your supreme throne |
| 12' | e₂-muhaldim-zu u₂ a [...] | Your kitchen ... |
| 13' | ⸢e₂⸣-zu ki niŋ₂-gu₇-⸢zu⸣ [...] | Your temple, the place where one should not eat food |
| 14' | [x]-x-x-gin₇ ab₂ amar-bi [...] | Like a ... cow, its calf |
| 15' | [udu]-⸢zu⸣ sila₄-⸢bi⸣ [...] | Your sheep and their lambs |
| 16' | [uz₃]-⸢zu⸣ maš₂-[bi ...] | The goat and its kid |
| 17' | [pu₂] {ŋeš}kiri₆-zu saŋ [...] | The well of your orchard is filled |
| 18' | [...] x daŋal-zu [...] | ... your rebellion |
| 19' | [...] x-ta a ⸢he₂⸣-[...] | ... may he/she say to you |
| 20' | [...] ⸢sag₉⸣-ga [...] | ... the good esag temple |
| 21' | [...] he₂-kug-ge [...] | ... may he ... |
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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