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PRAK D 045 (P345059)
Old Babylonian, Kish · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | PRAK D 045 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345059 |
| Museum no. | AO 10804 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| 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 | a-ra-li er₂-ra ša₃-bi a-še-ra-am₃ | Arali, its heart is a lament |
| 2 | ⸢ama⸣ uru₂-saŋ-ŋa₂ ga-ša-an-tin-lu-ba | The mother of Urusaba, Gašantiluba |
| 3 | sa₁₂-⸢du₅⸣ an-na ga-⸢ša⸣-an i₃-⸢si⸣-na{⸢ki⸣} | I want to go up to the sa’edu temple of heaven, to Isin |
| 4 | a-ra-li ⸢gu₂-ba-ru⸣-ur₄-ra-re ⸢gu₂-ba-ru⸣-ur₄-ra-re | The Arali temple, the throne-dwelling temple |
| 5 | ga₂ ⸢balaŋ⸣-ŋa₂ [...] nun-na-re | I want to go to the bala temple of the prince |
| 6 | ŋa₂-gi₄-⸢a-re⸣ [e₂]-⸢saŋ⸣ tur-ra-⸢re⸣ | “If he goes up to the temple, if he comes down to the small temple |
| 7 | ⸢rig₇⸣ tur-tur [...] ⸢x ub nun-na-re⸣ | The small shrine ... the shrine of the prince |
| 8 | ma mu-⸢nim⸣-bar ⸢tur-tur-ra⸣-re | In the house where the young man resides, |
| 9 | a-ra-li bar-re ama lul-la-a am₃-nu₂-a-re | Outside the Arali, where a false mother lies. |
| 10 | a-ra-li egi₂ na-⸢aŋ₂⸣-bi kur-e al-gi-gi-a-re | The Arali, where the princess lies, is being returned to the netherworld. |
| 11 | egi₂ a-ra-li ama nu₂-a-re a-⸢a⸣ nu₂-a-[re] | Princess of Arali, when the mother lies down, when she lies down |
| 12 | a-ra-li ki-sikil nu₂-a-re ŋuruš nu₂-a-re | In the Arali where the maiden lies down, where the baby lies down |
| 13 | a-ra-li dumu nin₉ nu₂-a-re dumu šeš nu₂-a-re | The Arali where the child lies down with the sister, where the baby lies down |
| 14 | meš₃ ⸢meš₃⸣-e an-ta am₃-nu₂ | The mes-trees lie on top of the ešeme trees. |
| 15 | ⸢an-eden⸣ uri₃ uri₃-a an-ta ⸢na⸣-mu-un-di | In the high steppe he goes up from the top of the steppe. |
| 16 | [uri₃ mu]-⸢lu lul⸣-[la uri₃ mu-lu] ⸢zi⸣-ra an-ta na-mu-un-di | The urine of the one who is falsely urined, the urine of a man who is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments, he goes up from heaven. |
| 17 | ⸢x x⸣ e ⸢BU⸣-ra ⸢a x⸣ [...] | “The ... of the house, the house of the ..., |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x x⸣ [...] ⸢TI⸣ in-na [...] | “The ... of the temple, the ... that is in the temple |
Sources & licences
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