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CUSAS 20, 036 (P323405)
Letter, Old Akkadian, Adab · c. 2340 BCE–2200 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 20, 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P323405 |
| Museum no. | CUNES 49-05-079 |
| Collection | Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Akkadian · c. 2340 BCE–2200 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Adab (mod. Bismaya) |
| Coordinates | 31.9509, 45.6233 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 | lugal-a-mu# | Lugal-amu |
| 2 | na#-be2-a | speak! |
| 3 | e2#-sig4#-[ra] | for the brick house |
| 4 | u3#-na-du11 | said to him |
| 5 | ma2 nig2-sa-ha | barge of nigsaha-offerings |
| 6 | GUR8-la-BI | Its reed-bed |
| 7 | zi3 he2-la2-e | may flour be heaped up. |
| 8 | ad-da | the father |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 2 | he2-da-du | may he go. |
| 3 | mu dingir-mah | year: “Diŋirmaḫ’ |
| 4 | mu {d}iszkur | Year: Adad |
| 5 | an-pa3 | An-pa, |
| 6 | kasz ba-ra-na8-na8 | he does not drink beer |
| 7 | ma2-ba nig2#? en-na bi2-la2 | In its barge, a thing(?) has been carried away until now |
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)
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