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CT 15, pl. 18, BM 015821 (P345453)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 15, pl. 18, BM 015821 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345453 |
| Museum no. | BM 015821 |
| 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 | [am mu ra] ⸢nu-un-ti am⸣ mu ra ⸢nu-un-ti⸣ | (Sum) The wild bull is a young man, he is the young man. (Akk) I am a wild bull, I am the young woman. |
| 2 | {[d}dumu-zi am mu] ⸢ra nu-un⸣-ti ⸢am⸣ mu ra ⸢nu-un-ti⸣ | Dumuzi, wild bull whose name has not yet been proclaimed, who has never proclaimed a name |
| 3 | [...] ⸢x mu-lu⸣ x-x nu-un-ti ⸢am⸣ mu ra ⸢nu-un-ti⸣ | ... no one lives there anymore. |
| 4 | [x]-DU mu-ud-na-ŋu₁₀ nu-un-ti | ... did not live with his spouse |
| 5 | ⸢ušumgal⸣-ŋu₁₀ nu-un-ti | he did not live there |
| 6 | ⸢ama⸣-{d}ušumgal-an-na nu-un-ti | did Ama-ešumgal-ana not live |
| 7 | ⸢u₃⸣-mu-un-e a-ra-li nu-un-ti | The lord did not live in the Arali. |
| 8 | u₃-mu-un-e bad₃-tibira{ki} nu-un-ti | The lord of Badtibira lives no more! |
| 9 | su₈-ba en {d}dumu-zi nu-un-ti | The shepherd, lord Dumuzi, lives no more! |
| 10 | u₃-mu-un-e du₆-su₈-ba nu-un-ti | The lord of the Dusuba does not live anymore. |
| 11 | mu-ud-na ga-ša-⸢an-an⸣-ka nu-un-ti | The spouse of Gašanana lives no more! |
| 12 | u₃-mu-un-e e₂-⸢muš₃⸣-a nu-un-ti | The lord does not live in the Emuš temple |
| 13 | ⸢šeš⸣ ama mu-tin-na nu-un-ti | The šu’e23-priestess does not live with the mother of the young man |
| 14 | ⸢i-bi₂⸣ lum-lum ka-na-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ nu-un-ti | The ibbītu-house, the splendor of the land, does not live anymore. |
| 15 | ⸢u₃-mu⸣-un ⸢ir₉⸣ ka-na-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ nu-un-ti | He did not live in a temple, a house, or a mound in the land |
| 16 | ⸢am-e⸣ a-gin₇ nu₂-de₃-en u₈ sila₄-bi u₃-bi a-gin₇ bi₂-ku | How could I lie down in the house like a ewe, like its lambs? |
| 17 | am-e a-gin₇ nu₂-de₃-en ud₅ maš₂-bi u₃-bi a-gin₇ bi₂-ku | How could I lie down like a wild bull? How could the goat and its kid sleep like that? |
| 18 | me-⸢e⸣ du₆-da en₃ ga-am₃-ma-tar | I want to inquire after the me-e’e-house, the moat. |
| 19 | du₆ alim-ma en₃ ga-am₃-ma-tar | I want to inquire after the bison mound. |
| 20 | ⸢ŋuruš⸣ mu-lu-ŋu₁₀ me-a ga-am₃-ma-ab-du₁₁ | I want to say: “Where is the ešēru-house, the house of a man? |
| 21 | [u₂] ⸢nu⸣-gu₇-a-ŋu₁₀ ga-am₃-ma-ab-du₁₁ | I want to say “I want to eat the ešnû-plant!’ |
| 22 | [a] ⸢nu⸣-naŋ-a-ŋu₁₀ ga-am₃-ma-ab-du₁₁ | I want to say “Alas, the en-priestess!" |
| 23 | ⸢ki⸣-sikil sa₆-ga-ŋu₁₀ ga-am₃-ma-ab-du₁₁ | I want to speak about the beautiful Esikil temple |
| 24 | [ŋuruš] sa₆-ga-ŋu₁₀ ga-am₃-ma-ab-du₁₁ | I want to say “I want to feed a beautiful kid’ |
| 25 | [mu]-⸢lu⸣-zu alim-e kur-aš₂ ba-u₅ | Your high priestess, the important one, was carried off to the underworld |
| 26 | [ŋuruš]-⸢zu⸣ alim-e kur-aš₂ ba-u₅ | The important one, the bison, carried off to the underworld |
| r | ||
| 1 | sisi i-bi₂ gun₃-nu-gun₃-nu-e | whose eyes are speckled with tears. |
| 2 | sisi kiri₃ hu-tu-ul-hu-tu-ul-e | The horns of the nose are twisted, the nose is twisted |
| 3 | ⸢alim⸣ u₃-mu-un-da u₃-mu-un-da | Bison, with the lord, with him. |
| 4 | ⸢u₂⸣ nu-gu₇-a-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-da | The one who does not eat food with the lord |
| 5 | a nu-naŋ-a-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-da | Without water, with the lord |
| 6 | ki-sikil sag₉-ga-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-da | The beautiful young woman with the lord |
| 7 | ŋuruš sag₉-ga-ŋu₁₀ u₃-mu-un-da | With the lord |
| 8 | ŋuruš mu-lu-zu-ne mu-da-ab-ha-lam-ma | The young woman is destroyed by your men |
| 9 | {d}ab-u₂ banda₃ mu-lu-zu-ne mu-da-ab-ha-lam-ma | “Abu, the young man, you have destroyed for me by your men! |
| 10 | i-bi₂ bar sag₉-ga-ni muš₃ nam-ba-e-ga-ga | He should not look at his beautiful face |
| 11 | ⸢EZEN⸣ bar sag₉-ga-ni mud na-an-ni-bar-re | He should not touch the ‘outside’ of his beautiful dais |
| 12 | {⸢tug₂⸣}aŋ₂-bara₃-ga-na ur ba-e-nu₂ | The dog slept in his abara-garment. |
| 13 | mu-lu-ŋa₂ rig₇-ga-na uga{mušen} ba-e-tuš | When he presented it to him, he sat down in the throne room |
| 14 | gi-di-da-ni tumu-e am₃-me | His reed mats are rolled up in the wind. |
| 15 | mu-lu-ŋa₂ en₃-du-ni {tumu}mi-ir-re am₃-me | The one who was singing “The wind is blowing!'" she says. |
| 16 | 41 er₂-šem₅-ma {d}dumu-zi-da | 41 (lines). An Eršemma of Dumuzi. |
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- 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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