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AOAT 203, 01-02, 14 (P289914)
Literary, Old Babylonian, unclear · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AOAT 203, 01-02, 14 |
|---|---|
| ID | P289914 |
| Museum no. | NBC 11433 |
| Collection | Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | unclear |
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' | [...]-ra-[...] | ... ... |
| 2' | [...] ⸢sipa⸣-de₃ mur-gu₄ al-ed₃-de₃ | In order to ... the esipa’ede temple, in order to demolish the murgu temple |
| 3' | [u₃-mu]-⸢un⸣ kur-kur-ra mur-gu₄ al-ed₃-de₃ | The wild bulls of all the lands are being chased away |
| 4' | [aŋ₂] ⸢bi₂⸣-dug₄-ga-zu ba-e-⸢dir⸣-[dir] | Your ‘water-of-during-the-day’ has been diminished |
| 5' | [ki na]-⸢am₂⸣-kud-da-zu ba-e-de₃-[til] | You finished the place of your na’emkuda ritual |
| 6' | [sipad nu]-⸢gurum⸣-e e-ze₂-a i-[ni-gub] | The shepherd Nu'e-gurum stationed the sheep. |
| 7' | [su₈-ba] u₃ nu-ku en-nu-uŋ₃-ŋa₂ [bi₂-tuš] | The shepherd does not sleep, the guard sits. |
| 8' | [mur]-⸢gu₄⸣ al-ed₃-de₃ en₃-di ab-e₁₁-[...] | The herdsman of the oxen is going around, how long will he roam? |
| 9' | ki-ru-gu₂ 21kam | It is the twenty-first song |
| 10' | [...] eden-na-ra ši-mu-[...] | ... for the steppe ... |
| 11' | [...] eden-na-ra a-ra-zu ga-⸢an⸣-[dug₄] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to ... in the steppe |
| 12' | [u₃-mu-un] ⸢kur⸣-kur-ra-ra e-lum-e u₃-mu-[un kur-kur-ra-ra] | For the lord of the Ekur temple, the important one, the Lord of all the lands |
| 13' | [u₃-mu-un] ⸢kur⸣-kur-ra-ra šag₄ su₃-ra-ra e-⸢ne⸣-[eŋ₃ zi-da-ra] | For the lord of the Ekur temple, for the one who is surrounded by a darkened horizon, who rises up high |
| 14' | [nu-gi₄-gi₄-de₃] am₂-dug₄-ga-na nu-gi₄-⸢gi₄⸣-[de₃] | If he does not return, if he is satisfied, he will not return. |
| 15' | [... {d}mu]-ul-lil₂ du₁₁-du₁₁-na šu nu-bala-[e-da] | ... Enlil, whose commands cannot be changed |
Sources & licences
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