UET 6, 0325 (P346374)
Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 6, 0325 |
|---|---|
| ID | P346374 |
| 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 2 | The female servants brought out the balag drum |
| obverse 4 | (While) Inanna sat on the dike of the lower end of the field(?) |
| obverse 5 | The female worker, the embodiment of sexual attractiveness (said) |
| obverse 8 | May Iškur and Haniš(?) ... split the field(?) in the “good place” joyfully/like a cucumber(?) |
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 | gi4#-in-gi4#-[...] | |
| 2 | [...] ba-ra#-[...] | |
| 3 | [ga]-sza#-an#-[...] | |
| 4 | e dur2-ra ba-tusz-x-[...] | |
| 5 | geme2# nig2 hi-li-a-ke4#? | |
| 6 | {d#}iszkur hanisz2 gal GAN2#?-[...] | |
| 7 | HUL2#-gin7 ki du10#?-[...] | |
| 8 | hu-mu-dar-x-[...] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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