CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 005 (P345633)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 005 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345633 |
| Museum no. | HS 1546 + HS 1582 |
| Collection | Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Jena, Germany |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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 | ⸢dumu⸣ e₂-dub-⸢ba-a⸣ u₄ ul-⸢la ŋa₂⸣-[...] | The first-born son of the scribal school, in the distant future |
| 2 | niŋ₂ ⸢um⸣-mi-a-ŋu₁₀ mu-⸢un⸣-[...] ; ze₄-e ga-⸢ra⸣-[...] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to you |
| 3 | ⸢ze₄⸣-e-⸢gen₇-nam⸣ nam-lu₂-[...] ; ⸢ses⸣-gal i₃-[...] | “Eze’e-gennam-e-ĝa, the life of the people,… the Esegal temple |
| 4 | [x]-⸢mi-a lu₂⸣-ta kiŋ₂-ŋa₂-⸢a⸣ [...] | From the ... of the temple the temple worker |
| 5 | ⸢ge al-gu₄⸣-ud-⸢da⸣-gen₇ [...] ; ⸢kiŋ₂⸣-ŋa₂ bi₂-[...] | Like an ox, he ... in the Ebaba temple |
| 6 | ⸢enim um⸣-mi-a-ŋa₂ nu-taka₄ ⸢niŋ₂⸣ [...] | (Sum) She does not open the door of the temple, she does not close the door(?) (Akk) The door of my temple is not opened, her door is not closed |
| 7 | [...]-⸢ŋa₂ a₂ ŋeš ŋar-ra⸣-[...] | ... labor, wages, and rations |
| 8 | [x]-sun₅-ne-⸢en⸣-na mu-⸢da⸣-[...] | When you go up to the ... of the king |
| 9 | ⸢ŋeš⸣ ma-⸢hur⸣-hur-ra ⸢na⸣-an-[...] ; ki-bi-⸢še₃ al⸣-[...] | “If he slips through the door pivots, if he falls through the window hinges, |
| 10 | [x] de₅-ga-ni-⸢ta⸣ [...] ; šu bar ⸢dib⸣-[...] | ... Egani-eta'e |
| 11 | [x]-⸢ma⸣ šu-ŋu₁₀ ⸢si⸣ [...] ; ⸢us₂ zi⸣ [...] | ... emāe23 šubû-plant esīe23 eus2-plant zi’e23 |
| 12 | [...] ⸢enim-ma⸣ [... ; ...] | ... the word(s) |
Sources & licences
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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)
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