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CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 011 (P293426)

Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 011
ID	P293426
Museum no.	YBC 09857
Collection	Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary

Transliteration (ATF)

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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)
obverse
1	en-e kur lu2 ti-la-sze3 gesztu2-ga-ni na-an-gub	The lord should not stand in the land of a living man.
2	en {d}bil4-ga-mes-e kur lu2 ti-la-sze3 gesztu2-ga-ni na-an-gub	Lord Gilgameš, he did not set his mind towards the mountain of the living man.
3	arad-da-ni en-ki-du10-ra gu3 mu-un-na-de2-e	His servant Enkidu spoke to him:
4	en-ki-du10 murgu gurusz-e ti-la sag til#-bi-sze3 la-ba-ra-an-e3-a	Enkidu, who lives on the shoulder of the young man, has not come out to its full extent
5	kur-ra ga-an-ku4 mu-gu10 ga-am3-gar	I want to enter the netherworld, [I want to place] my name there.
6	ki mu gub-bu-ba-am3 mu-gu10 ga-bi2-ib-gub	I want to stand at the place where a young man stands, my young man.
7	ki mu nu-gub-bu-ba-am3 mu digir-re-e-ne ga-bi2-ib-gub	I want to stand in the place where no one stands, the name of the gods.
8	arad-da-ni en-ki-du10-e inim mu-un-ni-ib-gi4-gi4	His servant Enkidu replies:
9	lugal-gu10 tukum-bi kur-ra i-in-ku4-ku4-de3-en / {d}utu he2-me-da-an-zu	My king, if you enter the netherworld, may Utu know it.
10	{d}utu szul {d}utu he2-me-da-an-zu	Šamaš, youth Utu, may you know!
11	kur-ra dim2-ma-bi {d}utu-kam	It is the creation of Utu in the mountains.
12	kur-{gisz}eren-ku5 dim2-ma-bi szul {d}utu-kam {d}utu he2-me-da-an-zu	The kur-cedar tree is the youth Utu, may Uta know it.
13	{d}bil4-ga-mes masz2 babbar2-ra szu im-mi-in-tag	Gilgamesh touched the white kid.
14	masz2-si4 masz2-da-ri-a gaba-ni ba-an-tab	The gazelle and the gazelle approached her chest.
15	szu-ni gidri ku3 kiri3-na ba-da-gal2	His hand is a pure scepter in his mouth.
16	{d}utu-an-na-ra gu3 mu-un-na-de2-e	He spoke to Utu-ana:
17	{d}utu kur-sze3 i-in-ku4-ku4-de3-en a2-dah-gu10 he2-me-en	Utu, when you enter the netherworld, may you be my helper.
18	kur-{gisz}eren-ku5-sze3 i-in-ku4-ku4-de3-en a2-dah-gu10 he2-me-en	I will enter the cedar forest, may you be my helper.
reverse
1	{d}utu an-na-ta inim mu-un-ni-ib-gi4-gi4	Šamaš replied to An:
2	gurusz dumu-gi7 ni2-zu-a he2-me-en kur-ra a-na-bi-me-en	May you be a young man, a citizen of your own free will, what are you to the mountains?
3	{d}utu inim ga-ra-ab-du inim-gu10-sze3 gesztu2-zu	Šamaš, I want to speak a word to you, listen to my word!
4	silim ga-ra-ab-du11 gizzal \|HA.QA\| he2-em-szi-ia-a5	I want to say “it is well, may a reed basket be placed for you.’
5	iri{ki}-ga2 lu2 ba-usz2 sza3 ba-sag3	In my city a man was killed, his heart was shaken.
6	lu2 u2-gu ba-an-de2 sza3-gu10 ba-an-gi4	The one who has sinned, my heart has turned back.
7	bad3-da gu2-gu10 im-ma-an-la2	he stretched my neck out over the wall.
8	ad6 a-a i7 i3-ib2-diri-ge igi im-ma-an-sze3	“Did you see the flood that made the father of the river surpassing?‭
9	u3 ge26-e ur5-gim nam-ba-ak-e ur5-sze3 he2-me-a	“Oh, I will do it again and again, so be it again!
10	lu2 sukux(SUKUD)-da an-sze3 nu-mu-un-da-la2	The one of the suku-offering did not raise it to heaven.
11	lu2 dagal-la kur-ra la-ba-an-szu2-szu2	The broad man of the netherworld did not let him go out.
12	murgu gurusz-e ti-la sag til-bi-sze3 la-ba-ra-an-e3-a	The young man’s neck, while alive, has not come out.
13	kur-ra ga-an-ku4 mu-gu10 ga-am3-gar	I want to enter the netherworld, [I want to place] my name there.
14	ki mu gub-bu-ba-am3 mu-gu10 ga-bi2-ib-gub	I want to stand at the place where a young man stands, my young man.
15	ki mu nu-gub-bu-ba-am3 mu# digir-re-e-ne ga-bi2-ib-gub	I want to stand at a place that does not stand (in prayer)
16	{d}utu er2-na kadra-gin7 szu ba-an-szi-in-ti	Šamaš, like a lamenting lament, has received it.
17	lu2 arhusz-a-gin7 arhusz ba-ni-in-ak	Like a man who has compassion, he has compassion.
18	ur-sag dumu ama dili inim-me-esz	The hero, child of the single mother, speak words.

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