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PRAK B 271 (P344087)
Old Babylonian, Kish · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PRAK B 271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P344087 |
| Museum no. | Ist — |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Find spot | Kish (mod. Tell Uhaimir) |
| Coordinates | 32.5520, 44.5853 |
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’ | lu₂ dam-da hu-la nu-mu-un-pa-de₃ | The one with the spouse does not find joy. |
| 2’ | lu₂ dumu-da RI-A nu-mu-un-pa-de₃ | The one who has a child does not find ... |
| 3’ | mu-nu-de tur₃-ta nu-mu-un-pa-de₃ | The herdsman does not find it from the cattlepen. |
| 4’ | sipa-de₃ a-ma-sa-na nu-⸢mu⸣-[un]-pa-de₃ | The shepherd does not find his sheepfold |
| 5' | dam-da nu-ar i-bi₂ mu-un-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | She looks at the spouse who is lying down. |
| 6’ | dumu-da nu-ar i-bi₂ mu-kar-⸢kar⸣ | The nuar son looks at him with his eyes. |
| r | ||
| 1 | eš₃ saŋ ki-tuš-ba mi-in-⸢dar-dar⸣ [...] | The shrine has become a place of refuge for you |
| 2 | i-ri-ma kaskal-še mu-⸢ma⸣-[ma] | he entered, and on the road he came up. |
| 3 | a-ša-lu me-li-ia ⸢a-ša⸣-lu me-⸢li-ia⸣ [...] | The ašalu-plant, my radiance, the eaša-elû-plant (and) the elliya-e-plant |
| 4 | me-li-ia me aŋ₂ ⸢nu⸣-x-de₃-en me-li-ia | In my radiance, I want to ... the divine powers of the water |
| 5 | me-li-ia me al ⸢nu⸣-[...]-⸢de₃⸣-en me-li-ia | In my radiance, the divine powers are numerous, I want to enter (into it) in order to inseminate (it) in my splendor |
| 6 | [me]-⸢li⸣-ia me aŋ₂ [nu]-x-de₃-en me-li-ia | My lord, I cannot ... the divine powers of the water. |
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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