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CT 36, pl. 41-42, BM 096940 (P345506)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CT 36, pl. 41-42, BM 096940 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345506 |
| Museum no. | BM 096940 |
| 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 Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | [...]-mu#? e2 x [...] | ... house(?) |
| 2 | [sa12-du5]-mah# ga-sza-an in-si-na#-[men3] | The chief surveyor and the lady of Insina |
| 3 | [ama] uru# sag-ga2 ga-sza-an tin-LU-ba-men3# | Mother of the first city, lady of ... |
| 4 | TUM#?-DIB ku3 ama e2-sza3-ba-men3 | Holy TUM-DIB, mother of the Ešabamen temple |
| 5 | ga#-sza-an asz-te ga-sza-an la-ra-ak{ki}-men3 | Lady of the throne, lady of Larak |
| 6 | ama e2-e {d}asznan {d}ku3-su3-men3 | Mother of the temple, Ašnan, Kusumen |
| 7 | dumu e2-e ga-sza-an-men3 {d}gu-nu-ra | son of the temple, Gašanmen Gunura |
| 8 | ga-sza-an nigar{gar}-ra ki ku3-ga-men3 | I am the lady of the Nigar, the pure place |
| 9 | e2-e u2 ze2-ba nu-gu7-a-mu | At the house, where sweet food is not eaten, |
| 10 | e2-e a ze2-ba nu-nag-a-mu | At the house I do not drink sweet water. |
| 11 | e2 ki-tusz ze2-ba nu-dur2-ru-na-mu | I do not dwell in my sweet dwelling house. |
| 12 | e2 ki-nu2 ze2-ba nu-nu2-a-mu | My house, where the sweet bed does not lie down. |
| 13 | e2 bur ku3-ga nu-mu-un-gu7-a-mu | My house, where no one eats from the holy bowl. |
| 14 | e2 zabar ku3-ga nu-mu-un-nag-a-mu | My house where no one drinks the pure bronze, |
| 15 | e2 {gesz}banszur ku3-ga nu-mu-un-il2-la-mu | My house, where the pure table was not raised, |
| 16 | ti-lim-da ku3-ga a nu-de2-a-mu | My holy tilimda vessel that does not carry water, |
| 17 | {kusz}ub ku3-ga nu-mu-un-gar-ra-mu | I did not set my holy sandals. |
| 18 | balag ku3-ga nu-mu-un-du12-a-mu | My pure balaŋ drum that cannot be played. |
| 19 | szem3 ku3-ga ad nu-sza4-sza4-mu | The pure chanter does not cries out. |
| 20 | me-ze2 ku3-ga nu-ze2-ze2-ba-mu | My pure meze that is not to be given away. |
| 21 | gi-di-da-mu ur5 nu-sza4-HAR-mu | My gidi drum, my ... drum, |
| 22 | mu-gu3-di-de3 nu-mu-un-ta-ba-e-mu | I will not go to the threshing floor. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | gala-e sza3-mu nu-sed5(|MUSZ3xA.DI|)-de3-mu | The gala-priest does not soothe my heart |
| 2 | gudu4-mu asil-la2 nu-mu-<<ni-ib-be2>>-un-du11-ga-mu | My gudu priest does not speak joy. |
| 3 | e2-mu dam hul2-la nu-mu-da-ti-la-mu | My house, where the spouse is happy, does not live with me. |
| 4 | e2-mu dumu ze2-ba nu-mu-da-tusz-a-mu | My house, my sweet child, I do not dwell with you. |
| 5 | e2-mu me-e ga-sza-an-bi gal-bi ba-ra-ni-ib2-dib# | I, the lady, did not pass the house |
| 6 | gal-bi ba-ra-ni-ib2-dib gal-bi ba-ra-ni-im-ma-al | Its great ones pass by, its great ones are not there. |
| 7 | a-a-mu he2-en-gi me-na he2-en-gi me-ak | May my father return, when will he return? |
| 8 | a-a-mu {d}mu-ul!-lil2 he2-en-gi me-na he2-en-gi me-ak | May my father Enlil return, when will he return? |
| 9 | me-e e2-mu ga-ku4 ga-ku4 ga-nu2 ga-nu2 | I, I want to enter my house, I need to enter, [I want to lie down, I will lie down.] |
| 10 | me-e erim3-ma-mu ga-ku4 ga-ku4 ga-nu2 ga-nu2 | I, I want to enter my storeroom, I need to enter, [I want to lie down, I will lie down.] |
| 11 | me-e e2-mu u3-sa2-bi ga-ku u3-sa2-bi ze2-ba-am3 | I, I want to lay claim to my house, its claim is sweet. |
| 12 | me-e e2-mu mu-nu2-be2 ga-nu2 mu-nu2-be2 ze2-ba-<am3> | I, I want to lie down in my house and lie down, it is sweet. |
| 13 | me-e e2-mu asz-te-bi ga-TUSZ asz-te-bi ze2-ba-am3 | I want to sit on the throne of my house, it is sweet on its thrones. |
| 14 | ($ blank space $) er2-szem3-ma {d}gu-la | An eršema of Gula |
| 15 | ($ blank space $) igi-kar2 esz3 zimbir#{ki} | (for) the “looker of the shrine of Sippar |
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- 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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