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YOS 11, 57 (P296522)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 11, 57 |
|---|---|
| ID | P296522 |
| Museum no. | MLC 01871 |
| Collection | J. Pierpont Morgan Library Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | {dug}utul₂ {dug}utul₂ bahar₂ me-en a-šag₄ umah{mah}am₃ | I am the bowl, the bowl of the potter, it is a large field. |
| 2 | gi-zu {gi}alal-la₂-am₃ dim-zu dur₂ lag-ga-am₃ | Your reed is an alal tree, your limbs are thick. |
| 3 | niŋ₂ sur₃-ra-zu gur-gur-am₃ en inim-ma |MUNUS.X| dumu a-šag₄-ga-ke₄ | The lord of words, the child of the field |
| 4 | mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄ šag₄-zu-ta nu-ed₂-de₃ ne-ne nu-e₃ | You have turned back, your heart cannot be soothed, no one can escape |
| 5 | dug dur₂-zu [...]-A-am₃ gi niŋ₂ [...]-ga-ta | Your jugs are ..., the reeds of ... |
| 6 | gi-du₃-a gun [...] šag₄ [...]-⸢ge⸣-eš | The reed mat(?) is a weapon(?) |
| 7 | niŋ₂ naga-zu šu nam-bi₂-in-⸢bar⸣-re dug dur₂-zu si-ŋar sahar-ra-bi he₂-a | May he/she say to you “may your hand not be turned back, may your jug be filled with dust!’ |
| 8 | zi {d}en-ki en dug₄-ga-ni zid-da he₂-pad₃ | May the life of Enki, his steadfast lord, be found. |
| 9 | im abzu im {d}en-ki-ke₄ nam-tar-ra mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄ | The clay of the Abzu, the clay of Enki, returned to the fates. |
| 10 | kaš-zu ka nam-bi₂-bar-re ka-inim-ma {dug}dur₂-bur₃ | Your beer should not be poured into a mouth, the wording of a pouring vessel |
| 11 | lu₂ u₂-šim-gin₇ ki-a mu-un-te | He approached the earth as if it were ebony |
| 12 | {ŋiš}isimu₃{mu₂}gin₇ KA nam-mi-in-X | Like a juniper he ... |
| 13 | |UD.UD|da-gin₇ inim hul-a | like a storm, a bad word |
| 14 | inim hul-a i-zi-gin₇ mu-un-zi-zi-i | He raised up a bad word like a rising flood. |
| 15 | [...] NIŊ₂ [...] | ... ... |
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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