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CDLI Literary 002362, ex. 001 (P345234)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 002362, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345234 |
| Museum no. | Ist Ni 02922 |
| 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' | [...] x x | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢am₃⸣-zi-zi-zi | ... ezizizi |
| 3' | [...] x am₃-bal-bal-e | ... is raging |
| 4' | x [...] am₃-ta-ab-ba-e | ... he heaps up |
| 5' | x [...] x mu-un-de₂-de₂-e | ... he goes. |
| 6' | e₂ x x-al-la-ta am₂-ta-ab-gi₄-gi₄ e₂ ki mar am₃-me | She returns from the ... house, she calls out to the abandoned house. |
| 7' | ki-sikil e₂ ki mar KA-KA x mu-lu me-gin₇ ba-an-mar | The young woman ... like a man. |
| 8' | ur-e kur-re me-gin₇ ba-an-mar | The enemy attacked the mountain like me. |
| 9' | mar-tu kur-ra me-gin₇ ba-an-mar | The Martu of the nether world was made like me. |
| r | ||
| 1 | su-bir₄ kur-ra me-gin₇ ba-an-mar mu-lu me-gin₇ ba-an-mar | The subir priestess of the netherworld was there like me, the man was there as me. |
| 2 | e₂-a-ni gurum-ma-ni mu-di-di-in er₂ gig mu-še₈-še₈ | She goes around in her house, in her inspections, she weeps bitterly |
| 3 | ⸢ama₅⸣ pe-el-la-na mu-di-di-in er₂ gig mu-še₈-še₈ | She wanders about in her defiled house, she weeps bitterly. |
| 4 | ⸢du₅-mu⸣ e₂ me-na mu-e-du₃ me-e-na mu-e-gul-gul | The edumû-priest, when will you build the house? When will you destroy it? |
| 5 | ⸢e₂⸣ ugu MU ZUM me-na mu-e-ze₂-eŋ₃ me-na me ne te a | (Sum) The temple ... (Akk) How long, how long? How long? ... |
| 6 | ⸢e₂⸣-gal gibil-bi me-na mu-e-⸢du₃⸣ me-na mu-e(ba-)gul-gul | The new palace, when will you build it? When will you destroy it? |
| 7 | x x gibil-bi me-na mu-e-dub me-na mu-e-⸢NE⸣-ba | Its new ... When will you write it down, when will you come up? |
| 8 | me-na e₂-gi₄-a i₃-ŋen-na ⸢saŋ⸣ x x ⸢dul-la⸣ | How long until the bride arrives? ... the cloister |
| 9 | ⸢e₂⸣-gi₄-a lul-la x [...]-⸢ra⸣-an-⸢si⸣-x | The egia temple, a false ... |
| 10 | ⸢ur⸣ mu-x x a ba-an-[...]-e-da-⸢an⸣-tuš | He ... the ur temple and sat down with him. |
| 11 | [...] x-e-da-an-tuš | ... sat down |
| 12 | [...]-en | I am |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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