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VS 02, 072 (P342880)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | VS 02, 072 |
|---|---|
| ID | P342880 |
| Museum no. | VAT 01344 |
| 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 | [NE {d]}⸢utu⸣-ra NE di ga-na-[ab-du] | ... for Shamash ... I want to speak ... |
| 2 | [ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ su-lu {d}utu NE {d}utu-ra NE di ga-na-ab-du | I want to utter a supplication to Ur-esa-e23 |
| 3 | [am e₂-ba]-ba-ra NE {d}utu-ra NE di ga-na-ab-du | The bull of the Ebabbar temple ... for Utu ... I want to speak to him. |
| 4 | [su₆] ⸢mu₂⸣ <dumu> {d}nin-gal NE {d}utu-ra NE di ga-na-ab-du | Beautiful one, son of Ningal ... for Utu ... I want to speak to him |
| 5 | [di-ku di]-ŋe₉-re-<di>-ŋe₉-re-ne me-en | I am the judge of the judges. |
| 6 | [ka-aš bar a]-nu-um-ke-ne me-en | You are the messenger of Anum |
| 7 | ⸢NE⸣ di ga-na-ab-du di-bi ha-ma-ku-de | I want to utter a case for him, but I do not understand his case. |
| 8 | [di-ku] ka-aš bar <ga>-na-ab-du ka-aš-bi ha(A-)ma-ba(SU-)re | May he/she say “It is enough, I want to make it abundant for him/her! It is enough!" |
| 9 | [a]-ia {d}utu-ŋu₁₀ im-du-ta mi-te-iš-e ga-e | Father Šamaš, after you have prayed to me, I will listen to you. |
| 10 | [gu-ba tu]-⸢ra⸣ al-gu-ba-ta me-te-iš-e ga-e | When I stand at the station of the tūrā-ēriš, I want to utter an arazu prayer |
| 11 | [gu]-⸢ba a⸣-ma-sa₂ al-gu-ba-ta me-te-iš-e ga-e | I want to utter an arazu prayer to the one who stands at the throne. |
| 12 | [a-ia-zu] he-me-en ama-zu he-me-en | You are your father, you are your mother |
| 13 | [ama]-zu he-me-en a-ia-zu he-me-en | You are your mother, you are your father |
| 14 | [di]-⸢ŋu₁₀ zu⸣ {d}<utu> dumu mu zu-ne mu-ši-ma-al-le | “Di’ešzû, Cutu, the son who knows his name, is there for you. |
| 15 | [ur]-⸢saŋ⸣ su-lu {d}utu dumu mu zu-ne mu-ši-ma-al-le | Ur-esa-e23, the šulu priest of Utu, the son who knows his name, is present |
| 16 | [...]-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ inim nu-un-zu-ni mu-ši-ma-[al-le] | ... who does not know a word is present |
| 17 | [...]-ŋa₂ ⸢ta⸣ nu-un-zu-ni mu-ši-ma-al-le | The one who does not know the ... of the ešaba temple is there for you |
| 18 | [ša hu]-ne-da bar{ar} hu-ne-da i-ŋa₂-e-ri-in-di-in nu-li-⸢iš⸣ | The one who was seized, the one who had been seized did not go up. |
| 19 | [e₂-ba]-ba-ra ša hu-ne-da i-ŋa₂-e-ri-in-di-in nu-li-⸢iš⸣ | In the Ebabbar he will go with him and not return. |
| r | ||
| 1' | [šag₄-zu šag₄ a]-ma du-da-⸢gin₇⸣ [ki-be₂ ha-ma-gi]-gi | May your heart, like the heart of a birth mother, be restored to its place for me |
| 2' | [ama du-da a]-ia du-da-gin₇ ki-be₂ ha-⸢ma⸣-gi-gi | May it be restored to its place for me like a birth mother and birth father |
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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