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YOS 11, 53 (P309484)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YOS 11, 53 |
|---|---|
| ID | P309484 |
| Museum no. | YBC 08649 |
| 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 | [am huš] ⸢gal⸣ du₇-du₇ ⸢gi⸣-[izi-la₂] | Furious wild bull, perfected palace, ezila temple |
| 2 | [am] gal {d}en-ki-ke₄ ⸢u₃⸣-[na-gub-bu] | The great wild bull Enki stood before him. |
| 3 | abzuₓ(DE₂) ki sikil-ta ⸢e₃⸣-[a] | From the Abzu, the pure place, the E-ea |
| 4 | {d}gibil₆ iri₁₂-gal AB an-[na] | Gibil of the Irigal temple, ... of heaven |
| 5 | ni₂ gal gur₃-ru-na mu-uš pa gun₃-gun₃-[na] | With a great fearsomeness and a beautiful face |
| 6 | nun-bar-an-na šu-ŋar-⸢huš⸣ eridu{ki}ga til₃-la | Nunbarana, the šu’eḫu-priest of Eridu, who lives |
| 7 | gi-izi-la₂ gal abzuₓ(DE₂)⸢ta⸣ e₃ | Great reed mat that goes out from the Abzu |
| 8 | me nun-e saŋ il₂ | the princely mes raised up, |
| 9 | {ŋiš}eren {ŋiš}šu-ur-min₃ {ŋiš}za-ba-lum | cedar, cypress, zabalum |
| 10 | {ŋiš}taškarin sig₂ gig₂ sig₂ babbar | white taškarin wool, |
| 11 | {ŋiš}kin₂ gig₂ {ŋiš}kin₂ babbar | a white ṣumlalû-garment, a black ‘sealed’ plant, |
| 12 | i₃ {ŋiš}eren-na bar-ta us₂-sa-a | After the oil of cedar oil was removed from the outside |
| 13 | {u₂}in-nu-uš u₂ sikil-la mi-ri-kug-ge-eš | The innuš plants, pure plants, the merrikug plant |
| 14 | {d}asal a nun-na kaš-gin₇ a-gub₂-ba | Asal, standing like beer in the water of the prince |
| 15 | {[dug]}bur-zi u₄-sakar ki sikil šag₄-ga | a bowl of sakar-beer in a pure place |
| 16 | mu-un-sikil mu-un-dadag | She purifies and brightens, |
| 17 | ⸢eme⸣ hul-ŋal₂ bar-še₃ he-em-ta-gub-[...] | May the evil-doer stand outside |
| 18 | ka-inim-ma gi-izi-la₂-[kam] | It is the wording of a torch |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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