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UET 6, 0234 (P346313)

Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationUET 6, 0234
IDP346313
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreWisdom or proverb
Find spotUr (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Coordinates30.9607, 46.1063

English translation

By Peterson, Jeremiah · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)

LineEnglish
Within(?) a donkey instead of (any of a) variety of sheep, one has not ascertained the omens.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1anše maš udu hi-a-ka
2ŋeškim nu-mu-ni-zu

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