UET 6, 0292 (P346355)
Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 6, 0292 |
|---|---|
| ID | P346355 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Wisdom or proverb |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
English translation
By Peterson, Jeremiah · Via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI (reuse with citation)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | I want to speak of my fate |
| obverse 2 | It is contempt |
| obverse 3 | I want to speak about my way (through life) |
| obverse 4 | It will embitter the mouth of a man |
| reverse 1 | That which vies with my weeping/filled(!?) (my eyes) with tears(?) |
| reverse 2 | It made my heart malevolent(?) |
| reverse 3 | It said “Sit/dwell(?), ... in the house"(!?) |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | nam#-tar#-gu10 ga-am3-du11 | |
| 2 | su-lum mar-am3 | |
| 3 | a-ra2#-gu10 ga-am3-du11 | |
| 4 | ka lu2 ba-an-ses-e | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | er2-gu10 im-da-an-sa2-a | |
| 2 | sza3-gu10 im-da-an-hul | |
| 3 | tusz-a NUMUN2? e2-a ba-an-du11 | |
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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