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CT 42, 37 BM 077952 (P283769)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CT 42, 37 BM 077952 |
|---|---|
| ID | P283769 |
| Museum no. | BM 077952 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [ur-saŋ] ⸢gal⸣ [...] | hero of the palace |
| 2' | [alim-ma] ur-saŋ ⸢en⸣-[dag-ga] | Important one, hero of the e’endaga |
| 3' | [ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ gal u₃-mu-un ⸢iri⸣ [saŋ-ŋa₂] | Great hero, lord of the inner city |
| 4' | [alim]-⸢ma⸣ u₃-mu-un gu₂ a nu-⸢gi⸣-[a] | Important one, lord who does not return to the water |
| 5' | [ur]-saŋ gal u₃-mu-un a-pi-ak{[ki]} | great hero, lord of Apiak |
| 6' | [alim]-⸢ma⸣ u₃-mu-un iri bar-[ra] | Bison, lord of the outer city |
| 7' | ŋeštug₂ daŋal-la gal-zu inim [...] | Your great scepter, your word |
| 8' | ŋeštug₂ diri-am₃ u₃-en₃ nu-[ša₄] | Extraneous garment, whose lordship cannot be overturned |
| 9' | bara₂ ku₃-sig₁₇-ga ki-en-gi-ra ⸢du⸣-[a] | The gold dais of Sumer, the edum temple |
| 10' | bara₂ ku₃-babbar-ra ki-en-gi-ra ⸢il₂⸣-[la] | For the silver dais of Sumer, the Eila temple |
| 11' | u₃-mu-un a-ba-a diri a-ba a-da-[sa₂] | Lord, who surpasses you, who equals you? |
| 12' | ur-saŋ gal a-ba-a diri a-ba a-da-[sa₂] | Great hero, who surpasses you, who equals you? |
| 13' | u₄-gin₇ HE₂-GA₂ u₅-a-zu-⸢ne₂⸣ | Like a storm ... |
| 14' | ga-ab-us₂ ga-ab-sar-ra mi₂ du₁₁-ga-zu-⸢ne₂⸣ | Give me a chair, a scribal instrument, and what you have learned. |
| 15' | i-bi₂ il₂-la-zu a-ba-a ba-ra-e₃ | Who can escape your raised eye? |
| r | ||
| 1 | du₁₀ bad-ra₂-a-zu a-ba-a ba-ra-šub-bu | Who can compete with you in battle? |
| 2 | e-ne-eŋ₃-zu sa-par₃ mah kur-kur-ra šu mu-⸢un⸣-[la₂] | Your word is a supreme net over all the lands, hand ... |
| 3 | sumun₂ a₂ zi-da gu₄-da ⸢šub⸣-[bu] | wild bull with right arm, ox or bull |
| 4 | ur-saŋ gal dimgul a₂ zi-da lu₂ ⸢x⸣ [...] | The great hero, the dimgul of the right side, the one who ... |
| 5 | a zi-ga-gin₇ ki-a im-[...] | Like rising water ... on earth |
| 6 | {ŋeš}ma₂ dilmun{ki} mu-un-gi dim [...] | The boat of Dilmun returned, dim |
| 7 | {i₇}idigna a-u₅-ba ŋar-ra-ba [...] | The Tigris, when it began to rain, |
| 8 | he-pi₂ }} zu a si-il-la₂ im-[...] | He was able to grasp the broken “knowledge of the pure water‽ |
| 9 | [...] {⸢i₇⸣}idigna gu₂ i₃-[...] | ... the Tigris |
| 10 | [a-ma-ru] zi-ga gaba-šu-[ŋar nu-tuku] | The rising flood that has no rival |
| 11 | [e-ne]-eŋ₃-zu igi in-zu-a igi in-zu nu-[...] | Your word, having seen it, has not seen it |
| 12 | [e-ne]-eŋ₃-zu a mah zi-ga-gin₇ kur [...] | Your word, like a rising flood, ... the land |
| 13 | [e-ne]-eŋ₃-zu lu₂-ra um-ma-te a [...] | When you speak to a man, ... |
| 14 | [...] ⸢hal⸣-hal-la um-ma-te a [...] | ... the eḫal̂ala-house of battle |
| 15 | [...] ⸢x⸣-mu nin gal-zu ⸢um⸣-[...] | ... my lady, your great lady |
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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