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CT 15, pl. 16-17, BM 013930 (P345452)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 15, pl. 16-17, BM 013930 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345452 |
| Museum no. | BM 013930 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 | ma₂-gur₈ kug an-na še-er-ma-al ni₂-te-na | The gold barge of heaven, the one with a radiance of fearsomeness |
| 2 | a-a {d}nanna u₃-mu-un-e urim₂{ki}ma | Father Nanna, lord of Ur |
| 3 | a-a {d}nanna u₃-mu-un-e e₂-kiš-nu-ŋal₂ | Father Nanna, lord of the Ekišnubal |
| 4 | a-a {d}nanna u₃-mu-un {d}dil-im₂-babbar | Father Nanna, lord Dilimbabbar |
| 5 | u₃-mu-un {d}nanna du₅-mu saŋ {d}en-lil₂-la₂ | Lord Nanna, the eldest son of Enlil |
| 6 | dirig-ga-zu-ne dirig-ga-zu-ne | When you rise, when you rise. |
| 7 | i-bi₂ a-a-zu i-bi₂ {d}mu-ul-lil₂-ra še-er-ma-al-la-zu-ne | When you set your eyes towards your father, towards Enlil |
| 8 | a-a {d}nanna še-er-ma-al-la-zu-ne gaba zig₃-ga-zu-ne | Father Nanna, when you raise your chest high, |
| 9 | ma₂-gur₈ an ša₃-ga diri-ga še-er-ma-al-la-zu-ne | When you make the barge of heaven surpassing in the world |
| 10 | a-a {d}nanna za-e eš₃ ku₃-še₃ u₅-a-zu-ne | Father Nanna, when you ride to your holy shrine |
| 11 | a-a {d}nanna ma₂-gin₇ a-ŋi₆-a dirig-ga-zu-ne | Father Nanna, when you sail like a boat in the water, |
| 12 | dirig-ga-zu-ne dirig-ga-zu-ne za-e dirig-ga-zu-ne | When you are ascending, when you are rising, you are the one who is ascending. |
| 13 | dirig-ga-zu-ne kaš de₂-a-zu-ne za-e dirig-ga-zu-ne | When you rise, when you pour out beer, you rise! |
| 14 | kaš de₂-a ul ti-a-zu-ne za-e dirig-ga-zu-ne | When you pour out beer in a strange place, when you surpass it |
| 15 | a-a {d}nanna ab₂-ur₃ ab₂ šar₉-ra mi₂ du₁₁-ga-zu-ne | Father Nanna, when you tend to the ur cow and the šar cow |
| 16 | a-a-zu igi hul₂-la mu-e-ši-in-bar mi₂ zi ma-ra-ni-in-du₁₁ | Your father looked at you with rejoicing, he said to you: |
| 17 | e i-i lugal-ra ud-de₃-eš-e mu-un-e₃ | Oh, the storm came forth for the king. |
| 18 | {d}mu-ul-lil₂-le mu-du-ru u₄ su₃-ra₂ šu-za ma-ra-ni-in-du₇ | Enlil made the scepter of distant days perfect for you |
| 19 | urim₂{ki}še₃ ma₂-gur₈ ku₃-ga u₅-a-zu-ne | When you ride the holy barge in Urim, |
| 20 | ⸢en⸣ {d}nu-dim₂-mud-e mi₂ du₁₁-ga-zu-ne | When you have treated Nudimmud well, |
| 21 | [...] [...] ⸢x⸣-a-zu-[ne] | ... when you |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | {⸢id₂⸣}[...]-⸢lil₂⸣-la₂ a im-⸢si⸣ [...] | He poured water into the Euphrates |
| 3' | {⸢id₂⸣}[...]-⸢ge⸣ a im-si [...] | The Tigris filled with water |
| 4' | {id₂}⸢idigna⸣-e a im-si {d}[nanna-kam] | It is the Tigris River, filled with water by Nanna |
| 5' | ku₃-ge {⸢id₂⸣}buranun-na-ke₄ a im-si {[d}nanna-kam] | It is the holy watercourse of the Euphrates, filled with water by Nanna |
| 6' | {id₂}pa₅-bi-luh-e a im-si {d}nanna-kam | It is the Pabi-luḫe canal that fills water for Nanna. |
| 7' | sug mah sug ban₃-da a im-si {d}nanna-kam | It is a great marsh, a large marsh filled with water. |
| 8' | er₂-šem₅-ma {d}suen | An eršema of Suen |
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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