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VS 02, 020 (P342828)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 02, 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342828 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01382 + VAT 01383 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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]-⸢e nibru⸣{[ki} ...] | The army of Nippur |
| 2' | [še]-⸢eb⸣ e₂-kur-⸢ra⸣ [...] | The Še’eb temple, the Ekur temple |
| 3' | [ki]-ur₃ ki gal-la [...] | The Kiʾur, the great place |
| 4' | [še]-⸢eb⸣ zimbir{ki}⸢ta⸣ [...] | The še’eb temple of Sippar |
| 5' | [še-eb] e₂-babbar-ra [...] | The brickwork of the Ebabbar |
| 6' | ⸢e₂⸣-di-ku₅-kalam-ma [...] | In the Edikudkalama temple |
| 8' | [še-eb tin]-⸢tir{ki⸣} e-x-[...] | The brickwork of Babylon |
| 9' | [še-eb e₂-saŋ]-il₂-la e-x-[...] | The brickwork of the Esaila temple |
| 10' | [...] ud [...] | ... day ... |
| 11' | [ud] ⸢tur₃⸣ gul-e ⸢amaš⸣ [bu-re] | When the cattlepen is destroyed, the sheepfold is plundered |
| 12' | [...]-x ud ša₃-ba nu-[...] | ... the storm did not |
| 13' | ⸢tur₃⸣ al-gul-gul-e ⸢amaš⸣ [bu-bu-re] | The cattlepen is destroyed, the sheepfold is torn out |
| 14' | [aŋ₂] ⸢tur₃⸣ aŋ₂ mah-ba mu-⸢da⸣-[ab-gi-gi] | The cattlepen, the great cattlepen he returned to me. |
| 15' | [mu] ⸢an⸣-na-me-gub [mu-bi še am₃-ša₄] | The year is “I will stand in the Eana,’ that year wails. |
| 16' | [gi] an-na-me-gub [gi-bi še am₃-ša₄] | It stands like a reed in heaven, its young woman moans |
| 17' | {[ŋeš]}⸢mes⸣ gal-e [...] | The great temples |
| 18' | [...]-de₃ [...] | ... to ... |
| r | ||
| 2' | [...] kalam [...] | ... the land |
| 3' | [...] mu-⸢da⸣-[...] | ... he/she will ... with him |
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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