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CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 020 (P343520)

Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 020
ID	P343520
Museum no.	Ist Ni 09917
Collection	Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
Language	Sumerian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

Transliteration (ATF)

From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)

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)
obverse
1	dumu#-munus#-[...]	Dumunus-
2	kasz nag-a-zu-[...]	When you drink beer
3	e2-ta e3 sza3#-[...]	Go out from the house, ... your heart
4	an su3-u4-dam ki# [...]	Heaven being distant, earth trembling
5	an-da nig2 im#-[...]	With An ... something
6	[...]-re zi x [...]	... faithfully
7	[x] buru14#-sze3 u4 ka#-[...]	... at the harvest time
8	[x]-gim# ri-ga#-[...]	Like a wild bull ...
reverse
1	[...]
2	[...] lu2 kur-ra bi2#-[...]	... the man of the netherworld
3	lu2-lul lu2-bar-ra bi2#-[...]	He ... lies and lies
4	ninda-e lu2 kur-ta im-ma-[...]	The bread of the man from the mountain
5	uru2 tur#-re# lugal-bi-ir amar# [...]	The small city, its king ... a calf
6	[...]-re# e2 du3-a szi-hur-re	... building a house, making plans

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