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CT 42, 48 BM 054707 (P283761)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CT 42, 48 BM 054707 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283761 |
| Museum no. | BM 054707 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain |
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 | ŋa₂-e nu-me-en ga₂-e nu-me-en | You are not me, I am not me. |
| 2 | ga-ša-an me-en me-e nu-men₃ me-e ga-ša-an-an-na | I am the lady, I am nothing, I, Gašanana |
| 3 | ga-ša-an-an-na me-e nu-men₃ dumu ur-sag {d}mu-ul-lil₂-⸢la₂⸣ [men₃] | I am Gašanana, I am not the son of the hero Enlil |
| 4 | a lu₃-a-mu nu-si-ge-dam | Woe, my man! She cannot be reconciled. |
| 5 | ⸢izi⸣ il₂-la-mu nu-te-en-te-en-dam | The “house of fire"(?) is not to be calmed. |
| 6 | ⸢e₃⸣ an-na e₃ ki-a šu-mu-še₃ bi₂-ma-al | The e’e-house, coming forth from heaven, is there on earth. |
| 7 | [uru₂ ir]-⸢ra⸣-mu saŋ an-še₃ nu-il₂-⸢e⸣ | The city Ir’emu, whose foundations cannot be raised to heaven |
| 8 | [inim mah] ⸢du₁₁⸣-ga-mu ki-bala i₃-gul-⸢e⸣ | My supreme command destroys the rebel land |
| 9 | [pu₂ kur dilmun{ki]}⸢na⸣ saŋ-mu a ba-ni-⸢in⸣-[de₂] | The wells of the land of Dilmun were filled with water |
| 10 | {[na₄}igi-za₃-ga]-⸢ka⸣ za₃-mi₂ ba-ni-⸢in⸣-[du₁₁] | I decorated it with a lapis-lazuli door. |
| 11 | [gašan men₃ šab-šab-ba] gu im-ma-ni-[in-de₂] | He roared in the carpenter's womb |
| 12 | [šab kur-ra-ke₄] ⸢gu im-ma⸣-[ni-in-de₂] | The inside of the netherworld trembled |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ka₂ TUG₂ ⸢nin⸣ [...] | At the gate of the Eninnu temple |
| 2 | te-a-mu-[ne ...] | When you see ... |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | egir me₃-ka [us₂-sa-mu-de₃] | in order to bring about the end of battle |
| 3' | munus da-a te-a [me-e ši-in-ga-men₃-na] | The woman who approaches Aya, you are indeed my friend |
| 4' | e₂ kaš-a-ka ⸢tuš-a⸣-[mu-ne] | when they sit down in the house of beer |
| 5' | nu-nus men₃ šul <ka>-tar-ra me-e ši-⸢in⸣-[ga-men₃-na] | I am a woman, I am the one who is worthy of praise |
| 6' | e₂ {d}mu-ul-lil₂-la₂-še₃ ku₄-ra-mu-[ne] | when I entered the house of Enlil |
| 7' | nu-nus kur-ra diri-ga me-e ši-in-ga-⸢men₃⸣-[na] | I am the woman surpassing in the land, |
| 8' | ki di-da-ka gub-ba-mu-ne | stand at the place of litigation. |
| 9' | nu-nus men₃ nu-nus e-ne-em₃-zu me-e ši-in-ga-men₃-na | I am a woman, I am the woman who has spoken to you |
| 10' | ki du₁₄-da-ka gub-ba-mu-de₃ | To stand at the place of battle, |
| 11' | munus i-bi₂ šu₂-šu₂ me-e ši-in-ga-men₃-na | The woman with the right eye, I am the one who agrees |
| 12' | ka₂ eš₂-⸢dam⸣-[ma-ka ...] | At the gate of the Ešdam temple |
| 13' | kar mu-⸢lu⸣ [...] | The quay of the lord ... |
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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