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TCL 16, 74 (P345418)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | TCL 16, 74 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345418 |
| Museum no. | AO 07684 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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' | ga-ša-an-an-na ⸢er₂⸣ [...] | Gašanana, the ereš temple |
| 2' | {d}{še₃}šer₇-da sa₆-ga er₂ ⸢x⸣ [...] | Beautiful Šever, weeping and wailing |
| 3' | {d}pa₄-nun-an-ki ir₂ [...] | Panunanki wept |
| 4' | mu-NE mu-na-nu₂ mu-a-[...] | ... laid down for him, ... |
| 5' | er₂ mah {d}gu-la uru-a ⸢x⸣ [...] | The supreme lament of Gula in the city |
| 6' | u₂ al-lu-lu u₂ nu-[gu₇-e] | The food is plentiful, the food is not eaten. |
| 7' | a al-lu-lu a nu-[na₈-na₈] | The water is plentiful, the water does not drink. |
| r | ||
| 1 | e-ne-ra murgu₂-na a kum₂ a ⸢sed₄⸣ | For him, on his back, hot water, cool water, |
| 2 | a kum₂ a sed₄-e tug₂ la-ba-ra-[si-ge] | The cold water and the cool water will not wash you. |
| 3 | e-ne-eŋ₃ ša₃-ba-na-še₃ u₃ nu-mu-[ši-ku-ku] | Because of his heart he does not sleep |
| 4 | ŋa₂-ra ta me-ma-al bil₂-la₂-⸢bi⸣ [am₃-me] | “What is there in the quay, what is there? It is full of bile |
| 5 | {d}mu-ul-lil₂ me-na-še₃ ur₅-ra-bi ⸢am₃⸣-[me] | Enlil, how long will you be like this? |
| 6 | u₄-zal-še₃ uru₂ u₃ ku-a-ba i-lu am₃-⸢mi⸣ [...] | At that time, in the city and in its pure place, lamentation was raging |
| 7 | ⸢uru₂⸣ ša₃-ab uru₂ bar u₃ ku-a-ba i-lu ⸢am₃⸣-[mi ...] | The temple, the heart of the outer and inner city, the lament is my temple |
| 8 | [...] ⸢x nibru⸣{ki} u₃ ku-a-ba i-lu [am₃-mi] | The ... of Nippur and Kuaba sang a lament |
| 9 | [...] ⸢u₃ ku-a-ba i-lu⸣ [am₃-mi] | The ... of the pure shrine sings a lament |
Sources & licences
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