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OECT 05, 42 (P345823)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Kish · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 05, 42 |
|---|---|
| ID | P345823 |
| Museum no. | Ashm 1930-0399b |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Kish (mod. Tell Ingharra) |
| Coordinates | 32.5520, 44.5853 |
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' | ⸢niŋ₂ niŋ₂ x⸣ [...] bi na gu [...] | (Sum) His temple, his temple ... (Akk) Its temple(?) ... |
| 2' | niŋ₂ DIŠ mi-lu niŋ₂ DIŠ dumu-zi-⸢da x⸣ [...] | “If a man, if Dumuzida |
| 3' | bu-ru li-la ki-sikil bu-ru ⸢li⸣-[la ...] ti ba-gi-[gi] | The young woman, the young man, the elī-ela-demon ... returned. |
| 4' | ama mu-ti-na-na bu-ru li-⸢la⸣ ti ba-⸢gi⸣-[gi] | The mother of Mutinana, the būru priestess, may she return to life! |
| r | ||
| 1 | mu-ti-na-na ne-en mu-na x-[...] ⸢ti ba-gi⸣-[gi] | This man, this man ... the E-ti. |
| 2 | sa₆-ga [ga]-⸢ša⸣-an ⸢x ma-da-x⸣ [...] | Good one, go out to the ... temple |
| 3 | ga-ša-an ⸢dub-sar⸣ a-⸢ra⸣-li ⸢ki⸣-[...] | Lady of the scribal art, lord of the Eki temple |
| 4 | ga-ša-an dub-sa-ra sila₄ za ⸢a⸣-[...] | Lady of the scribe, you are a lamb |
| 5 | ⸢al⸣-ŋa₂-ar-⸢sur⸣-ra saŋ mu-⸢x⸣ [...] | In the “Palace of the Rising Sun, the rising of the Sun,’ |
| 6 | [...] ⸢AB⸣ [...] | ... the E-ab-e-šumi |
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)
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