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VS 02, 048 (P342856)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 02, 048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342856 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01437 |
| 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' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢ga-ša⸣-ŋu₁₀ x-[...] | “It is enough, I want to ... it(?) |
| 3' | su₃-ra₂-⸢aŋ₂⸣ [...] | Sūrāya |
| 4' | aŋ₂ li-li-na ⸢ki li⸣-[li-na ...] | Woe, lilina! Ea, woe! ... |
| 5' | aŋ₂ li-li-na ki li-⸢li⸣-[na ...] ⸢x x⸣ | “Woe, lilina, with li-elina ... |
| 6' | u₃-nu-ka e₂-ia-na ŋa₂-ra ⸢si DU⸣ [...] ⸢ba⸣-nu | In the evening, in the Eana, ... the esi-vessel |
| 7' | za-ba-la gi-gu₂-na ŋa₂-ra si ⸢DU⸣ [...] ⸢ba-nu⸣ | The ziggurat, the reed screen, ... the ešû-house |
| 8' | ⸢a⸣-ra-ba e₂-sa-ra ŋa₂-ra si [...] | In its midst, in the Esara temple, ... |
| 9' | [ni-ib]-⸢ru⸣ du-ra-ki ŋa₂-ka si [...] | The nibiru priestess of Ura, the ... of the netherworld |
| 10' | [i-si-in]-⸢na⸣ bu-lu-ka-ki bu-lu-ka-ki ŋa₂-ka si [...] | Isina’e, your ... is full of rejoicing, you are full of joy |
| 11' | [...]-⸢ri⸣-na e₂-GIR₃-na ŋa₂-ka si [...] | ... in the E-GIR |
| 12' | ⸢x⸣-ka ama-⸢maš⸣-kug ŋa₂-ka ⸢si⸣ [...] | In the ... of the mother-in-law, in the midst of the temple, the sîn-temple |
| 13' | ⸢elam⸣-ma e₂-za-gi-na ŋa₂-ka ⸢si⸣ [...] | In the Elam temple, in the Ezagina temple, the Sîn temple |
| 14' | ⸢eden⸣ ni-ni ⸢eden⸣ ni-ni eden te ⸢ba⸣-[ab-ni-ni] | This steppe, this steppe - how does the steppe approach? |
| 15' | [x] ⸢x sa-ha kaskal⸣ [x (x)] ⸢x te ba-ab⸣-[...] | ... the road ... how is it that you(?) ... |
| 16' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
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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