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CDLI Literary 000368, ex. 001 (P345478)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000368, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345478 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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 | {d}lugal-banda₃{da} kur ki su₃-ud-da [...] | Lugalbanda, the mountain of the distant place |
| {d}{<MIN(LUGAL.BAN₃.DA)>} ana ša₂-di-i a-šar ru-u₂-⸢qi⸣ [...] | O ditto, to the mountains, lord of ..., | |
| 2 | iš sa-a-bu-a [...] | With Sābû |
| ina KUR{i} sa-a-bi [...] | In the land of Sumer and Akkad | |
| 3 | ama nu-mu-un-da-an-til₃ na nu-⸢mu⸣-[...] | The mother does not live there anymore, she does not ... |
| um-mu ul aš₂-bat-su-ma ul [...] | I did not sit down with my mother and did not ... | |
| 4 | a-<a> nu-mu-un-da-an-til₃ ki-a nu-mu-un-[...] | He did not live there with him, he did not ... on earth |
| a-bi ul a-šib-šu-⸢ma it-ti⸣-šu₂ ⸢ul⸣ [...] | (Sum) My father, I did not seek him out, but with him I sought him out (Akk) I do not seek his father, and with him ... | |
| 5 | zu-a kal-a-ni ⸢nu-mu-un⸣-[...] | (Sum) The one who knows his limbs, he does not ...(?) (Akk) The wise one, if only he would ... |
| aq-ru ⸢mu⸣-du-šu₂ [...] | The aqru-priestess, his ēdu-disease | |
| 6 | ⸢lu₂⸣ inim šag₄-ga-na-ke₄ inim ⸢nu⸣-[...] | The elu priestess, the word of her heart, the words of her sleep |
| ša₂ a-mat lib₃-bi-šu₂ a-mat ⸢ul⸣ [...] | The word of his heart, the word of ... | |
| 7 | šag₄ ni₂-te-na-ke₄ inim-ma am₃-mi-ni-⸢ib₂⸣-[...] | In his own heart he speaks a word |
| i-na lib₃-bi ra-ma-ni-šu₂ a-mat ⸢x⸣-[...] | In his own heart the word of | |
| 8 | mušen-e nam-me-te-a ba-ni-ak-a ana iṣ-ṣu-ri si-[ma-...] | (Sum) The lord, the one who makes the heavens tremble(?) (Akk) The one who made the earth shake like a horn |
| 9 | {d}anzu{mušen} nam-me-te-a ba-ni-ak-a ana an-zi-i si-⸢ma⸣-[...] | Anzumuš, who created me in a favorable way, ... to Anzu |
| 10 | dam-a-ni-ta gu₂-da-a ba-ni-in-la₂ aš₂-šat-su ⸢li⸣-[...] | his wife he carried away, his hand ... elī-e- |
| 11 | dam {d}anzu{mušen}da dumu {d}anzu{[mušen}da] | wife of Anzumu-da, son of Anzu-mušenda |
| al-ti an-zi-i mar an-⸢zi⸣-[i] | I, Anzu, son of Anzu | |
| 12 | ki-bi-ŋar-ra ba-ni-ib₂-dur₂-ru ina ta-kul-ti lu-še-ši-⸢ib⸣ | (Sum) May he sit on the throne, may he rise from the womb (Akk) May I be seated in the takultu prayer |
| 13 | {d}en-na {d}nin-gu₂-en-na-ke₄ {<MIN({d}EN.NA)>} {<MIN({d}NIN.GU₂.EN.NA)>} | Enna and Ningu’ena |
| 14 | hur-saŋ-a-ni-ta um-ma-da-an-ri | from the mountain range he brought me. |
| ul-tu ša-di-i i-ta-ra-a | From the mountains he returned. | |
| 15 | munus TUKU-TUKU ama-ra me-te ŋar | “(If) a woman gives birth to a child, it is appropriate for a mother.’ |
| sin-niš-tu et-puš₃-tu um-mu ša₂ ana si-ma-a-ti GAR{at} | (If) a woman has performed sorcery (or) an oath: that person will be put to shame. | |
| 16 | {⸢d⸣}nin-ka-si munus TUKU-TUKU ama-ra me-te ŋar | Ninkasi, the woman who has a mother, suitable for the mother |
| {d}siraš MIN ⸢MIN⸣ | Sîn, ditto, ešītu-plant | |
| 17 | [...]-⸢a⸣-ni {na₄}za-gin₃-duru₅ nam-zi-is-sa uq-nu-u ⸢eb-bu⸣ | ... his temple with lapis lazuli and a crown of radiance he set up. |
| 18 | [...]-⸢di⸣-a-ni kug-babbar me kug-sig₁₇ lam-si-is-sa me-su ⸢kas₃⸣-pa u [...] | ... silver, gold, lapis lazuli, ebony, and |
| 19 | [...]-⸢a⸣-ni niŋ₂-kiri₃-zal ina ši-kar iz-za-zu ta-ši-⸢la⸣-[...] | (Sum) ... stands at the threshing floor(?) (Akk) In the šukarû-vessel you stand (there) |
| 20 | [...] ⸢mud₅⸣-me-ŋar ina ši-kar uš-ša₂-bu ⸢ri⸣-[...] | ... the emudbar plant in the reedbed is growing |
| 21 | [...] ⸢x x x⸣ [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...]-bi {⸢ŋeš⸣}[...] ⸢mu-ni-ni⸣-[...] | ... its ..., he made it for him |
| ina qaq-⸢qa-di⸣-[šu ...]-ia-a-ra ⸢u₂-kin⸣ | In his ‘qaqadi’, he smote my ..., | |
| 2' | {⸢uzu⸣}mu-du-li-⸢e {tug₂⸣}gur-gur-ra-bi saŋ-bi-še₃ mi-ni-in-ŋar | He made the udu-lî-vessels and the gurgur-textiles bow down in their knots. |
| MIN ku-ba-ra ina re-ši-šu₂ iš-kun | DITTO, kubaru-plant is placed at his head | |
| 3' | ⸢gud₃⸣ {d}anzu{mušen}da ba-ra-zig₃ | The oxen of Anzuda were not raised. |
| ul-tu qin-ni an-zi-i it-bi-ma | After Anzu came out from the midst of heaven, and | |
| 4' | [ha]-⸢šur⸣ nu-zu kur-ra-ke₄ ki-gub mu-un-ak | The one who does not know the ḫāšû-plant, he established it as a station. |
| 5' | nis-hu IGI{u₂} | first-fruit offering |
| 6' | ⸢KUR⸣ {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN {kur}AN.⸢ŠAR₂{ki⸣} | Assurnasirpal, king of the world, King of the land of Assur, |
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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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