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CDLI Literary 000623, ex. 097 (P342799)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000623, ex. 097 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342799 |
| Museum no. | Kress 047 |
| Collection | anonymous, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
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 | [{d}]iszkur#-da szegx(|KAxLI|)#? mu#-da#-an-gi4#-[gi4-in] | He answered Iškur |
| 2 | im#-hul-im#-hul-da im-da-kusz2#-[u3-de3-en] | We are exhausted by the destructive winds |
| 3 | [giri3]-za nu#-kusz2#-u3# i3#-im#-si# | He twisted your feet so that they were not painful |
| 4 | balag# a-nir-ra#-ta# i-lu im-da-[ab-be2] | The balag drum utters a lament |
| 5 | [nin]-gu10 {d}a-nun-na digir gal-gal-e-[ne] | My lady, the Anuna, the great gods |
| 6 | [su]-din{muszen} dal-la-gin7 du10-de3 mu-e-[szi-ib-ra-asz] | Like a flying bat, when you bring it to me sweetly |
| 7 | igi# husz-a-za la-ba-su8-ge-de3#-[esz] | They will not stand in your furious face |
| 8 | sag#-ki husz-a-za sag nu#-mu#-[un-de3-ga2-ga2] | Your furious forehead does not restrain it |
| 9 | sza3# ib2-ba-za a-ba-a ib2-te-[en-te-en] | Who will calm your angry heart? |
| 10 | [sza3] hul-gal2-la-za te-en#-[te-bi mah-am3] | Your evil heart is an exalted rejoicing |
| 11 | [nin ur5 i3]-sa6 nin sza3 [i3-hul2] | Lady who makes the liver happy, lady who rejoices |
| 12 | [ib2-ba] nu#-te-en#-te#-en# [dumu gal {d}suen-na] | The great son of Sîn |
| 13 | [nin kur]-ra# diri-ga# [a]-ba# [ki-za ba-an-tum3] | Lady who surpasses the mountain, who can bring it to your place? |
| 14 | [hur-sag] ki#-za ba-e#-de3#-[gid3-de2-en {d}ezina2 nig2-gig-bi] | The mountain range has been extended to your place for you, Ezina, its evil |
| 15 | [...] izi#? [...] | ... fire(?) |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | sza3# tur3#-bi#-ta# [giri3 he2-eb2-ta]-an#-ze2#-[er] | In the cattlepen, may he be able to walk. |
| 2' | munus-bi dam-a-ni-ta sa6-[ga na-an]-da-ab#-[be2] | Its woman should not say good things about her husband |
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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