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N 6857 (P280606)
CANONICAL > Literature, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | N 6857 |
|---|---|
| ID | P280606 |
| Museum no. | N 6857 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse? 5' | that man |
| obverse? 4' | in Nippur |
| obverse? 2' | Enlil |
| reverse? 4' | ...... |
| obverse? 6' | the king, the faithful shepherd |
| reverse? 2' | ...... |
| obverse? 7' | its |
| obverse? 3' | that city |
| left 1 | ... the unrivaled king, lord |
| reverse? 1' | ...... |
| reverse? 3' | ...... |
| obverse? 1' | shepherd |
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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