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VS 02, 059 (P342867)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 02, 059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342867 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01472 |
| 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 x x]-⸢mu-na du-ra du-ra⸣ | I want to lie down in my ... |
| 2' | [x x x (x)]-x sa-ra du-ra du-ra | ... in the street, in the streets. |
| 3' | [x x x (x)] u₃-ri tir du-ra du-ra | ... the city, where the forest is disturbed, where it is disturbed. |
| 4' | [x-x-x]-⸢ni⸣ a₂-ŋu₁₀ e₂-ia e₂-u₃-ra-bi ŋi₆-in | ... of my house, its threshing floor |
| 5' | [x x (x)] ⸢x⸣ i₃-ma-ra-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-bi ba-u₂ | ... he will praise, its lord will die. |
| 6' | [...]-⸢mu⸣-ma še-eb ha-ra-na u₃-mu-un-bi ba-u₂ | ... in the brickwork of Haran, its lord has died |
| 7' | [...]-⸢ni a-ma⸣-bi si-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-bi ba-u₂ | ... his mother ... its lord ... |
| 8' | ⸢ša₃-ŋu₁₀⸣ hu-lu-ni i-ni-im nu-ŋa₂-la-bi | The šabû-house, whose destruction is nothing but a flood, |
| 9' | ša₃ KU-ŋu₁₀ mu-lu ⸢ŋen⸣ i-ni-im nu-ŋa₂-la-bi | The heart of ..., the one of the en priestess, whose utterance cannot be changed |
| 10' | aŋ₂ ni-zu e₂-gi bi-a aŋ₂ ni-zu e₂-gi bi-a | Woe, yourself, this bride, woe yourself! This bride, |
| 11' | mu-gi₁₇-ib ga-ša-an-na aŋ₂ ni-zu e₂-gi bi-a | Mugib priestess, Gašanana, your own strength is a bride! |
| 12' | egi₂ ga-ša-an e₂-⸢an-na aŋ₂ ni-zu e₂-gi⸣ bi-a | Princess, lady of the Eana temple, your own strength is that of the bride |
| 13' | ⸢aŋ₂ ni-zu⸣ [...] | “The one who knows nothing(?) |
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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