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BM 054727 (P345744)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | BM 054727 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345744 |
| Museum no. | BM 054727 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Sippar |
| Coordinates | 33.0592, 44.2538 |
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.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | x x al-bi [...] | ... rising ... |
| 2' | u₄ dili-a x [...] | On a single day |
| 3' | kala-ga ⸢ki⸣ [...] | The mighty one of the Ekur temple |
| 4' | x (x) x ga [...] | ... milk |
| 5' | ki-zu dib-ba x x [...] | Your place ... |
| 6' | ur-saŋ gal ⸢ša₃ ib₂-zu⸣ [...] | The great hero who knows the eša ritual |
| 7' | šul {d}utu ša₃ ib₂-zu ⸢a₂⸣ [...] | The heart of Šamaš, your heart is a flood |
| 8' | kur erim₂-ŋal₂-⸢la-še₃ a₂⸣ [...] | To the land of the enemy, to the army |
| 9' | kur uru₁₆ nu-še-ga-še₃ ⸢a₂⸣ [...] | To the undeveloped land, the ešaŋa temple |
| 10' | x ud x x x an-ki-a ud [...] | ... of heaven and earth ... |
| 11' | [x x] x x x mu-[...] | ... ... |
| 12' | [x x x x] mu-[...] | ... ... |
| 13' | [...] nam-⸢erim₂⸣ [...] | ... evil ... |
| 14' | [...] sur-bi [...] | ... its ... |
| 15' | [...] ki šu x [...] | ... hand ... |
| 16' | [...] x x (x) [...] | |
| r | ||
| 3' | [x x]-e uru₂-zu ta-a-aš x x x [...] | ... what has been done to your city? |
| 4' | [x x] {d}utu ta-am₃ x x x [...] | ... Utu, what ...? |
| 5' | uru₂-zu lu₂ hul-hul-ne ba-an-mar [...] | Your city was destroyed by those who had destroyed it |
| 6' | uru₂-zu saŋ-e ba (x) (x) ba-an-šum₂ | Your city is plundered ... |
| 7' | ki-tuš mah-zu x x [...] | Your supreme residence |
| 8' | še-eb e₂-zi-da-ke₄ ba-an-⸢šub⸣ [...] | He entered the Ezida temple |
| 9' | ur-saŋ-e uru₂-zu lu₂ hul-hul-ne lu₂ x-[...] | The hero, in your city the evildoers, the ... |
| 10' | zimbir{ki}a hul-hul-lu x x x | The destruction of Sippar |
| 11' | u₃-mu-un [...] | The lord |
| 23' | x [...] | |
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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