CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 001 (P345480)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000350, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345480 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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' | [... 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-la₂ | Kulana 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 | |
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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