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YOS 11, 40 (P306703)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 11, 40 |
|---|---|
| ID | P306703 |
| Museum no. | YBC 05636 |
| 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 | an ma-na-am₃ ki ma-na-am₃ | Heaven is a thousand, earth is tenfold. |
| 2 | an ma-ma-na-am₃ ki ma-ma-na-am₃ | Heaven is mine, earth is mine. |
| 3 | a idim bad-e-de₃ pa₅ a dug₄-ga de₂-de₂-e | So that the water of the river flows, so that the canals are irrigated, |
| 4 | u₃ numun nam-lu₂-ulu₃ i-izi-gin₇ zig₃-ga | and the seed of mankind rises like a torch. |
| 5 | e₂ ba-ši-du-de₃ {d}asal-lu₂-hi | to build the temple of Asalluhi, |
| 6 | igi im-ma-an-sig₁₀ | he looked at him. |
| 7 | a-a-ni {d}en-ki-ra e₂-e ba-ši-in-kur₉ | For his father Enki he turned the house into a mound. |
| 8 | gu₃ mu-na-de₂-e | he spoke to him. |
| 9 | a-a-mu nam-bur₂ niŋ₂-nam-zuₓ(SU)bi | My father, do not burst into a pitfall! Do not fear! |
| 10 | a-gin₇ nam-AK-na-bi nu-e-zu | How did you not know its AK? |
| 11 | a-na ba-ni-ib₂-gi₄-gi₄ | what will he return? |
| 12 | dumu-mu a-⸢na⸣ [nu-e]-⸢zu⸣ a-na a-ra-ab-dah-e | son of A-ena-e-zu-e'e to Arabdaḫe |
| 13 | {d}asal-lu₂-[hi a-na] nu-e-zu | Asalluhi, what did you not know? |
| 14 | a-na [a-ra-ab]-dah-e | to Arabbaḫe |
| 15 | niŋ₂ ŋa₂-e zu-a-mu za-e in-ga-zu | (Sum) You are the one who knows me, you know me (Akk) You know me, I know you |
| 16 | hiₓ(HAR)me-da gu₂ šu um-me-ti | (gloss: break) the hand of Ummeti |
| 17 | ugu-ni mu-un-NE-NE | ... upon him. |
| 18 | {ŋiš}ma-nu ŋiš kalag-ga | “He is strong, he is strong |
| 19 | imin a-ra₂ imin a-[ra₂]-ka na-ra-gi | Seven times seven times he returns. |
| 20 | nam-šub-ba dil UD BI u₃-me-šum₂ | It is a single fate, that day is set aside. |
| 21 | id₂-da-bi dab₅-be-am₃ he₂-em-da-an-bad-e | Its canals are seized, may they be carried away. |
| 22 | ka-inim-ma idim zu₂ keš₂-da-kam | It is the wording of a sealed sealed sealed tablet. |
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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