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CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 044 (P280051)
Literary, Middle Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 044 |
|---|---|
| ID | P280051 |
| Museum no. | CBS 11153 (+?) N 6286 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 18' | the good word of Ninurta |
| reverse 19' | When Ninkarnuna heard about the well-being of Ninkarnuna |
| reverse 23' | May your heart rejoice over you in the shrine of Nippur, your beloved city. |
| reverse 12' | In the border of my city, may its well, its good water, and Sumer be the cult center of my city |
| obverse 24' | May the water of the sea enter with me. |
| reverse 21' | May the lord of your city, which you love, rejoice over you. |
| reverse 4' | ... I am the destroyer of the land, I am the one who makes the kingship manifest from heaven and earth. |
| obverse 5' | When you are to purify the great divine powers of the kurur temple, when you are to purify it |
| reverse 3' | I am the one chosen by Anu by his great strength. |
| obverse 12' | You are the one who roars at the mountain, you are the one who roars at the great sea, you are the one who roars at heaven |
| obverse 16' | The adah priest(ess) of the female laborers, the egida priest(ess) and the megiju priest(ess)... |
| obverse 4' | You are the one who fills the ninnu-flour with the ninnu-flour |
| obverse 25' | May Enlil... the strength of heroism. |
| obverse 18' | The utterance of heaven and earth, the ginû-priestess(?) of the land, which cannot be overturned by its forces, is a waste land |
| obverse 7' | The kur priestess, the one who destroys sheep, the god Anaju priestess, |
| reverse 14' | May the frogs of the city oxen eat them, and may they keep watch over them. |
| reverse 20' | To the lord Ninurta he set up a libation bowl and speaks a prayer. |
| reverse 17' | shining robes of the warriors |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 8' | I am the one who carries out great fearsomeness and great fear of the Ishtar gods |
| obverse 15' | The house, the place of relaxation, the tumuli, the tumuli, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, the etum-vessel, and the etum-vessel, |
| reverse 2' | When An, the scepter of the Ishtar gods |
| obverse 9' | The sa-allu-hub net of the rebel land is a zenal-lu-ju net. |
| reverse 15' | May they make their envoys bow down at my feet. |
| reverse 7' | May my kingship be made manifest at the border of heaven and earth. |
| obverse 13' | The watercourse(?) of battle, the udug and ninnu-flour(?) are filled with(?) |
| obverse 20' | the supreme weapon, surpassing in battle, surpassing in battle, who has no rival |
| reverse 9' | The city of Kiajju, the shrine of Nippur, like heaven, I made it grow. The city, my beloved temple, I made its top rise like heaven. |
| obverse 14' | You are the one who approaches a man, you are the one who approaches the bow, you are the one who approaches the bow |
| reverse 24' | When you enter the Eumea, your residence that gladdens the heart, |
| obverse 17' | Like the storm, the lord of the netherworld has gathered up in the netherworld. |
| obverse 3' | The one who stands at his left side, the one who is clad in radiance |
| obverse 10' | The mountain that does not fall, its limbs are full of rejoicing |
| reverse 5' | I am the strong one, the strength of battle, the strength of Inana, and the strength of battle, the work of the life of Itar, I. |
| reverse 11' | May the... of the Eju temple, the temple of your brothers, be its true crown |
| obverse 19' | Gibilgina, you are the one who makes the udug and ninnu-flour flourish(?) in the rebel land |
| reverse 10' | May the city of Jug, the city of your brothers, be its main gate |
| obverse 26' | he brought out |
| obverse 21' | In the place of battle, in which battle is fought, |
| obverse 23' | whose fearsomeness and divine radiance cover the land, whose strength is supreme, adorned with gold and lapis lazuli, who stands in a splendid fashion, whose utterance is supreme, whose strength is supreme in my midst, whose strength is supreme, whose strength is supreme, whose strength is supreme, whose strength is supreme, whose strength is supreme, whose strength is supreme, |
| obverse 8' | (Possessor of) a scepter that makes the foreign lands bow down at the princely side, (possessor of) a seven-headed eagle |
| obverse 6' | Like a weapon, a uumgal creature, it is yours, it is yours, it is yours |
| reverse 13' | May the Anuna gods, the gods of their brothers, take counsel with you. |
| reverse 6' | the hero of the fate of Enki, I am the furious one who goes at the command of Ea to battle. |
| reverse 16' | from the house of Enlil to his house |
| obverse 11' | The supreme snake, the seven-headed snake, the seven-headed snake |
| obverse 2' | You are the one who binds the right hand to you, you are the one who binds with you |
| reverse 22' | May Ninurta, your beloved city, and your heart rejoice. |
| obverse 1' | In the nether world, you must not be afraid of (them)! |
| obverse 22' | The one who has no rival, the one who carries the furious battle, the one who binds the universe |
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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