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VS 02, 044 (P342852)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 02, 044 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342852 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01453 |
| 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 | ⸢aŋ₂⸣-gi₆ me-en ⸢zi⸣-ga-ni lu-⸢ra⸣ ti ⸢he₂-me-en⸣ | You are a black-headed person, may you be his friend. |
| 2 | [x] ⸢x⸣ aŋ₂-gi₆ ⸢me⸣-en zi-ga-ni lu-ra ti ⸢he₂-mi₂⸣-en | “I am a flood, I am an ecstatic, my rise is a man’s. |
| 3 | ⸢a⸣ ŋuruš ŋuruš {⸢d}da-mu⸣ | “Ea, burušu-disease, dāmu-e23 |
| 4 | ŋa₂-ra ⸢da-mu x⸣-ma-ka-aš | For the one who enters, my ... |
| 5 | u₃ diŋir-ŋu₁₀ ⸢x-ma-ka⸣-aš diŋir-ŋu₁₀ na-⸢na⸣ | and the “seizing-of-the-mouth’-disease-demon's ..., the silt-insect's disappearance, |
| 6 | ama-ŋu₁₀ {⸢d}x-x-x me⸣-a šu nu-mu-⸢ba⸣-re | The mother of the ... temple, whose hand cannot be shaken |
| 7 | ki-⸢gu-ub-ki⸣-gu-ub-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ u₃-mu-⸢un⸣-a | “Ki-egub-ki-emub-ea, Umun-Ea |
| 8 | ⸢sila⸣ re ⸢bar-re⸣ sila re ⸢ama⸣-ŋu₁₀ hu-mu-zu-a | “I want to go down to the steppe, I want to enter the street, I am going down to my mother’s house. |
| 9 | [x] ⸢ama-ŋu₁₀⸣ hu-mu-sa-ar-sa-re | May the ... of mother-in-law make it perfect for you. |
| 10 | ⸢ama-ŋu₁₀ x⸣ [...] ⸢ki⸣-aŋ₂-ni be₂-a ŋuruš ⸢me-en⸣ [...] ⸢x x⸣-ga | “I am the mother of the ... of the E-a-b-ni, I am a young child ... |
| 11 | ama du-du-ŋu₁₀ ⸢x⸣ [...] ŋuruš me-⸢en ama⸣ mi-⸢da⸣ [...] | Mother Udubu, ... you are a young male goat, mother I am a male goat |
| 12 | ama-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ PA-ni mu-lu ⸢tur⸣-ra-ŋu₁₀ [...] ŋuruš me-⸢en KA⸣ mi-da [...] | (Sum) My mother, the one of the cowshed(?) ... (Akk) The mother of the goat ... I am the young cow ... |
| 13 | tu-ša-ni mu-lu tur-ra-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ ŋuruš ⸢me⸣-<en> ⸢da⸣ [...] | You are a young man, a female kid, you are an adolescent |
| 14 | i-gub-gub-<<ni>> mu-⸢lu li⸣-[...] ⸢me⸣ [(x)] mi-da-⸢mi⸣ [(x)] | (Sum) He stands, he does not ... (Akk) The one who stands, may he ... |
| 15 | ⸢e₂ gur₂⸣-ra-re e₂-ŋu₁₀ a-⸢ga ŋuruš⸣ me-[en] mi-da ⸢x⸣ | When you enter the house, I am a young male kid, I want to go out |
| 16 | sila re pa-re sila-ŋu₁₀ a-⸢ga ŋuruš me⸣-[en] ⸢mi-da x⸣ | In the street, I am the one who makes the streets tremble, in the street. |
| 17 | ⸢mu⸣-lu nu-⸢zu⸣ diŋir-ŋu₁₀ a-⸢ga ŋuruš⸣ [me-en ...] | (Sum) You are the one who does not rise up (Akk) You do not arise (in) a place of rising up |
| 18 | ⸢x x⸣ [(x)] ⸢x na-aŋ₂⸣ ni-bi-a ⸢UN⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ | “(If) he does not ... the ... of the nāya temple, the ešunu-temple, ... |
| 19 | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...]-⸢ni⸣ | ... his ... |
| 20 | [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | si-ki-⸢ir x⸣ [...] ⸢x-a⸣ ⸢x⸣ [...]-⸢bi⸣ [...] | (Sum) ..., ... (Akk) The wool of ... |
| 3' | u₃-bi-a ga-⸢ša⸣-na-na nu-ti-il kur-ru {d}utu e₂-a ni-eš-bu-na nu-ti-il | At that time, I did not live in her shackles. The mountain, Utu, did not dwell in her own house. |
| 4' | dam ku ga-ša-na-na-ka nu-ti-il kur-ru {d}utu e₂-a ni-eš-bu-na nu-ti-il | The pure spouse of Gašanana does not live. The mountain, Utu, does not dwell in the house. |
| 5' | u₃ nu-me-a u₃ ba-da-zal | There was no food, there was no water. |
| 6' | e₂ nu-me-a e₂ ba-da-de₆ | Without a house, the house was carried away. |
| 7' | e₂ tu-ur nu-<me>-a gi ba-de₆ [...] | The house that was not a reed fence was carried away |
| 8' | ŋa₂ ze nu-me-a sa ba-⸢la⸣ | It was a boat that was not able to carry barley, it was carried away. |
| 9' | ⸢šu-du-ul-ŋu₁₀⸣ [(x)] ⸢ŋuruš šu⸣-du-⸢ul⸣-[ŋu₁₀] ⸢e₂-kur⸣-ra ⸢ša₃⸣ [...] | šudūlbû-plant, éṣumu-plant (a kind of juniper) and ekur-plant |
| 10' | [ama]-šu-uš-gal-an-na šu-du-⸢ul-ŋu₁₀⸣ e₂-kur-ra | Amaʾušgalana, Shudu-eulbi, Ekur |
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