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CT 42, 18 BM 077219 (P283768)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CT 42, 18 BM 077219 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283768 |
| Museum no. | BM 077219 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
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) |
|---|---|
| col 2 17' | ... great |
| col 2 14' | ... may... |
| col 3 16 | may..., the favorable one |
| col 3 12 | may Nin-ildu, the chief carpenter of heaven, |
| col 2 8' | ... of all the lands, may the true Ur, the place of the netherworld, be |
| col 2 9' | ... who guards the life of all the people, |
| col 3 17 | ... of the nether world |
| col 3 14 | the... of heaven |
| col 3 10 | may the supreme... of Enlil |
| col 2 16' | be it a good thing to be built on the socle. |
| col 2 15' | ... ditto |
| col 3 18 | may he be |
| col 3 7 | May endursag, the... of the angry heart, |
| col 3 20 | may he be |
| col 3 6 | Be present in the mountain of the plain |
| col 2 10' | may the foundations of the nether world |
| col 3 19 | may he be |
| col 3 9 | May the hand of Bilgi, the torch of the lord, the mouth of the god |
| col 3 15 | the large potter of heaven |
| col 2 11' | ... the earth ditto |
| col 3 11 | May your great mountain be a mountain |
| col 3 4 | may Ninki and Nina |
| col 3 8 | May the life of Mes-sag-unug, the herald of Kulaba |
| col 3 21 | may he be |
| col 3 13 | may Ninagal, the great smith of heaven, |
| col 3 2 | may he be |
| col 2 12' | by Enlil the kurra warrior with great fearsomeness |
| col 2 6' | ... Belet-... |
| col 3 5 | may Ninkasi, akan, Ira |
| col 2 7' | of the sukkalma |
| col 3 22 | ... |
| col 2 13' | ... the fierce strength of my great divinity, |
| col 3 3 | may both the Twin Gods |
| col 2 5' | may... be |
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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