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CDLI Literary 000481, ex. 020 (P345658)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000481, ex. 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345658 |
| Museum no. | HS 1501 |
| 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 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| top 109 | who makes the heart happy |
| face b 53 | I am the king who raises the goat against the breast |
| face d 86 | I am the one who makes the heart rejoice |
| face d 92 | of the people of Sumer and Akkad |
| face c 74 | I am the one who roars like a flood |
| face c 66 | I am the one who does not abandon the sanctuaries of Eridu |
| face c 56 | I am the one who speaks good words to Enlil |
| face b 32 | he spoke faithfully to Ur. |
| face c 62 | I am the one who does not take care of the Ebabbar temple |
| face a 11 | I am a lapis-lazuli smiter |
| face a 3 | I am the one who raises the head like a cucumber and juniper |
| face a 26 | he gave to me in the Ki-ur. |
| face b 48 | the great mountain range of the prince |
| face d 82 | I am the king who sits on the dais |
| face d 94 | to Niginaju, to the one who chooses |
| face a 13 | I am a... liar who heaps up allure |
| face d 81 | I am the one who covers the journeys of the troops |
| face a 1 | I am the king who is perfected from the heart |
| face c 72 | I am the one who does not know the strength of youth |
| face a 6 | I am the one who has no rival |
| face c 63 | to Nippur be filled with splendor. |
| face b 30 | I am a true woman who is speckled |
| face b 47 | I am the one who fills the river with pure water. |
| face d 107 | May my name be praised in all the lands |
| face a 24 | An fashioned a true crown and a supreme scepter |
| face d 97 | I am a strong one, he made a fitting thing resplendent for you |
| face c 76 | I am a sajkal stone and fig-tree stone |
| face c 60 | I am the one who makes the people rejoice(?) |
| face b 46 | I am a fisherman of the great birds |
| face b 39 | I am the scribe who listens to Nisaba |
| face c 69 | I am the one who makes the heart rejoice in his city |
| face d 95 | I am Lipit-Itar, the prince who makes the udug rites pleasant. |
| face b 35 | I am the one who provides for the wall of Enki |
| face b 51 | I am the counsellor of the gods. |
| face d 96 | he made it good for him to drink beer. |
| face a 23 | I am the iib priest of heaven who is perfected |
| face c 54 | I am the one who cleans the lips |
| face c 68 | I am one who gives life in the Ekur |
| face a 18 | I am the bitter sajû-demon, the true shepherd |
| face d 104 | I will spend the day in the sister's house |
| face a 27 | I am the one who makes the heart rejoice for Ninlil |
| face b 49 | I am the one given strength by Enlil |
| face a 12 | I am the one who roars like a female lamb |
| face c 65 | I am the one who eats fine oil at Ur |
| face d 99 | In the palace of kingship, the holy residence |
| face d 87 | I am a stone that is to smite a niu-disease and to smite a uu-disease |
| face b 50 | I am Lipit-Itar, the youth who reveres him |
| face a 9 | I am the one who does not smite a wild bull |
| face a 21 | I am the strong heir of kingship |
| face a 22 | I am the one who raises the head above and below |
| face a 17 | I am Lipit-Itar, king of the land |
| face c 78 | I am a hero with a bright face, a firmly secured one |
| face d 88 | of the nijgina offering of the mouth of all the lands |
| face a 5 | I am the one who raises the great necks of youth |
| face c 73 | I am the one who makes the foundations firm(?) |
| face c 67 | I am the one who provides great food offerings to Uruk |
| face b 28 | In order to determine a good fate in the temple(?) |
| face b 43 | I am the supreme harvester of the land |
| face b 36 | He gave the kingship from Eridu |
| face a 10 | I am a multicolored eye of the assembly |
| face c 71 | I am the king who perfects the lands |
| face c 57 | I am the one who gladdens Ninlil |
| face a 16 | I am the sage, the one who loves justice |
| face c 55 | I am the king who stands in prayer |
| face d 85 | I am the one who does not forget the scepter behind it. |
| face c 75 | I am the one who establishes the foundations and foundations of the troops |
| face b 29 | by Nintur from Ke |
| face a 15 | I am the one who lifts the horns |
| face b 33 | I am the one of his heart’s desire |
| face b 44 | I am the plowman who heaps up its heaps |
| face c 70 | I am Lipit-Itar, shepherd of all the lands |
| face d 80 | I am a leather pouch that irrigates the life of the people |
| face b 31 | I am the true eye of Nanna |
| face c 59 | to the Ki'ur temple I am the one who purifies |
| face d 105 | I am Lipit-Itar the strong heir |
| face d 83 | I am the one who carries out the utterances of the heavy heart |
| face b 52 | I am the unceasing one of the Ekur |
| face d 102 | I raised up its neck in distant times. |
| face d 103 | a bed of relaxation, a place of joy |
| face d 106 | I am the king who makes a fitting thing resplendent |
| face d 93 | he strews(?) the flesh of the land |
| face c 64 | I am the one who stands in Ke, its iib priest |
| face a 8 | I am Anzu, the mountain of the midst of the heart |
| face b 40 | I am the youth, the righteous word of Utu |
| face b 37 | I am the slave of the place of Inana |
| face b 34 | the Eumea temple with a great aura, |
| face d 100 | the holy man of Inana |
| face a 14 | I am the one who makes the word(?) sound |
| face b 41 | I am the one who makes great the kingship |
| face a 2 | I am Lipit-Itar, the son of Enlil |
| face d 90 | I am the one who makes a decision (and) makes a good decision |
| face c 77 | I am a leatherworker who looks at the reed mat |
| face a 7 | I am a uumgal creature built by a great fearsomeness of the troops |
| face a 20 | I am the lord of mankind, the one who reveres the uur and the uur shrine |
| face b 38 | he raised the head towards Uruk |
| face d 101 | the foundation of the throne like a man |
| face d 108 | I am Lipit-Itar, the son of Enlil |
| face d 79 | I am Lipit-Itar, the son of Enlil |
| face d 91 | of all the lands, you are the one who makes great your cultic rites |
| face b 45 | I am the shepherd of the cattlepen with butter and cheese |
| face a 25 | of Enlil, you are the son who loves him |
| face c 58 | I am the unceasing one of Nuska |
| face b 42 | I am Lipit-Itar, the son of Enlil |
| face d 98 | I am Lipit-Itar, the son of Enlil |
| face d 89 | I am one who does not forget his eternal rites |
| face c 61 | I am the one who does not bend down a knee (in prayer) |
| face d 84 | I am the one who makes the cultic rites flourish, the one who makes the rites flourish |
| face a 4 | I am a strong man, a strong one |
| face a 19 | I am the foremost of all the lands of the land |
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
- 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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