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CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 009 (P343761)

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

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 009
ID	P343761
Museum no.	Ist Ni 04056 + Ist Ni 04241
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 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+1	[...] ⸢x x⸣ KA ⸢enim⸣ ze₄-[...]	... enim e’e
2+2	a-da-lam tu₉-gen₇ i₃-⸢tar⸣-e-en ⸢x-ŋa₂ x-x-e-en⸣	I am the one who is dressed in a cloak, I am ...
3+3	⸢zilulu u₂ udu⸣ ša₃-gal-la-ni	her ezilulu-plant and sheep's-tongue plant
1’+4+4	⸢gir⸣-[...] ⸢saŋ⸣ ni₂-ba sal-sal	The egir temple, the sa temple, its radiance is resplendent
2’+5+5	lul du₁₁-du₁₁ ra-⸢gaba⸣ ki bad-ra₂	False utterance, Ra-egaba-e, the distant place,
3’+6+6	an-⸢ga⸣-am₃ ⸢tu₉-gen₇⸣ i₃-tar-e-en	“I am the one who makes heavens tremble, I am like a teeming eagle.
4’+7+7	nu-mu-na-ab-du₇ e-sir₂-ra nu-mu-un-dib-be₂	She did not make it perfect for him, she did not pass through the street.
5’+8+8	nu-mu-na-kal erin₂-na na-an-⸢x⸣	He does not eat food for the troops, he does not go out.
6’+8+8	niŋ₂ šu-ni ab-tum₃ ⸢nam⸣-[...]	He brought his hand to me,
7’+9	niŋ₂ na-me ⸢ba⸣-an-tum₃ igi [...]	No one can see the Ebantum temple
8’	[...]
9’	⸢niŋ₂⸣-[...]	His word
10’	uku₂ ni₂-[...]	The weak one ... fear
11’	gu₃-zal [...]	... shouted
12’	lu₂ huŋ-ŋa₂ [...]
13’	u₃ ⸢x-e⸣ [...]	and ...
r
1’	[...] ⸢ge₄⸣ [...]	... the ewe
2’	⸢ad x⸣ [...]	“Ad, ...,
3’	eme-⸢gi₇⸣-še₃ al-⸢dugud⸣ [...]	The Sumerian is bound to the scepter
4’	en₃-du nu-un-da-[...]	The song is not ... with him
5’	u₃ ze₄-e ⸢lu₂⸣ [...]	And the elû priestess
6’	su-kal igi kal ⸢niŋ₂⸣ [...]	The shepherd who sees all the lands
7’	lu₂ sikil-du₃-⸢a⸣ [...]	The one who is pure
8’	⸢is-hab₂ di-da⸣ [...]	I want to go down to the eishab temple
9’	dumu ⸢uku₂⸣ [...]	son of Ukû
10’	lu₂ umum [...]	The one who the father
11’	e₂ buru₃-buru₃ [...]	The house that is to be plundered ...
12’+1’	e₂-e ⸢šu ša⸣-an-ša [...]	The temple, its ... is a šuean
13’+2’+1’	ib₂-dib ba-⸢an⸣-DU lu₂ [...] nu-un-⸢x⸣-[...]	He passed by, he did not pass the man
14’+3’+2’	niŋ₂-⸢x⸣-da ab-zi-⸢zi he₂⸣-en-na-e-bar-re-en-ze₂-en	Let us go up to the horizon, let us go down.
15’+4’+3’	a-⸢da⸣-min₃-na mu-⸢da-x⸣-gub-be₂-en	I stand with you in the water.
16’+5’+4’	nam-[...] nu-ub-du₇ kiŋ₂-⸢ge₄⸣-a-aš la-ba-ab-du	... was not good, it was not built in its place
17’+6’+5’	⸢x⸣-ni ŋal₂ u₃-bi₂-⸢in⸣-taka₄ ser₃-gid₂-da nu-ub-be₂	His ... does not utter a šergida prayer.
7’+6’	[...]-la₂ šu-ni-še₃ la-ba-ab-du₇ ⸢lu₂⸣ nu-un-da-hul₂-le	... his hand was not perfect, the man did not rejoice
8’+7’	[...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] ⸢x-na⸣-gen₇ saŋ-ba a-ab-si	... like a ... house, he fills its ... with dust.
[9’]+8’	[...] ⸢x⸣ [...]

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