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CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 001 (P345480)

Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationCDLI Literary 000350, ex. 001
IDP345480
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageSumerian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLiterary
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1'[... za-gin₃]-na ni₂ x x [...]... with lapis lazuli ...
2'[...]-a-ni {ŋeš}du₃-a gigir [...]His ..., built in a mountain range
[...] x ša ik-mu-u₂ ⸢ina⸣ [...]... that he smote, ...
3'[...] ⸢dab⸣-a-ni {ŋeš}šu₂-dul₄ [...]... his ešudab priestess, the one who covers
[...] ša ik-mu-u ina [...]... that he sealed in ...
4'[...] ⸢saŋ⸣ aš₃ {ŋeš}sahar gigir [...]... esa-e23-plant, sahar-stone, girru-stone
[...] ⸢SAG⸣ 6 ina sa-har-[ge-e ...]... esaĝ-plant 6 in the dust
5'[...] {⸢ŋeš⸣}|KI.KAL| gigir-⸢ke₄⸣ [...]... the quay of the Giri
[... qar]-ra-du ina sa-[as-si ...]... the hero with a rope ...
6'ma₂-gi-lum ⸢še⸣-er-tab-ba-⸢ke₄ bi₂⸣-[in-la₂]The magīlum-boat hung from a pole.
ma₂-gi-lum ina li-me-⸢ti i⸣-[lul]The magīlum-boat in the middle of the night he lied
7'gud-alim-ma {ŋeš}ad-us₂ gigir-⸢ke₄⸣ bi₂-⸢in⸣-[la₂]The gud-alima priest, the guardian of the Girir temple, made it rise.
ku-sa-rik-ku ina nap-⸢sa⸣-qi₂ i-⸢lul⸣He sings kusarikku-prayer in the evening.
8'ku-li-an-na {ŋeš}⸢ŋir₃⸣-[gub gigir]-⸢ke₄⸣ bi₂-in-la₂Kulana sat down on the chariot pole.
ku-lil-ta ina man-za-⸢zi i-lul⸣He sings a lament in the manzāzi prayer.
9'im-babbar {ŋeš}erin₂ gigir-[ke₄] ⸢bi₂⸣-[in-la₂]The white cedar, the gigir cedar
gaṣ-ṣa ina ṣi-[mit-ti i-lul]gas in a hole he lied
10'urudu niŋ₂-kalag-ga {ŋeš}kišib-[du₃ ...]The copper, the strong one, the seal-bearer
e-ra-a dan-na [...]The strong one ...
11'⸢mušen⸣ {d}anzu{⸢mušen⸣} [...]“Emušene, Anzu, ...,
iṣ-ṣu-⸢ru⸣ [...]Išbu-ēru

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