CDLI Literary 000380, ex. 049 (P346552)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000380, ex. 049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P346552 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| 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' | People who did not know butter were churning its butter |
| obverse 2' | People who did not know cream were ... its cream |
| obverse 3' | In the cattle pen the churning churn was not bellowing nobly |
| obverse 4' | The heavy coals that had been lit(?), their smoke ceased |
| obverse 5' | ... the great dining hall of Nanna ... |
| obverse 6' | Suen wept to his father Enlil |
| obverse 7' | My birth father, my city was ... for him(?), why did you turn away from me? |
| obverse 8' | Enlil, my Ur was ... for him(!?), why did you turn away from me? |
| obverse 9' | My Ekišnugal temple was ... for him(?), why did you turn away from me? |
| obverse 10' | The nesag offering ships of my(?) birth father no longer brought the nesag offering for him |
| obverse 11' | ... could not bring its nindaba offerings to Enlil (of/at) Nibru for him |
| obverse 12' | The wind(s) carried off the en priest(ess) of the outer city and the en priest(ess) of the inner city |
| obverse 13' | Ur, like a city struck by a pickax, has been broken up into ruin heaps |
| obverse 14' | The Ki'ur? shrine, the place of relaxation of Enlil, has been made into a windblown shrine |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] lu2# i3 nu#?-[...] | |
| 2' | [...] lu2# gar9#? nu#?-[...] | |
| 3' | [...]-ra# {dug#}szakir3#-[...] | |
| 4' | [...] dugud#-bi i3-ra#?-[...] | |
| 5' | [...] x unu2 gal {d}nanna#-[...] | |
| 6' | [{d}]suen#?-e a-a-ni {d}en-lil2-ra# [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ugu#!?-gu10 iri#-gu10 a-na-x x [...] | |
| 8' | [...] uri2{ki}-gu10 a#-na#-x [...] | |
| 9' | [e2]-kisz#-nu#-gal2#?-gu10 a#-na-x x [...] | |
| 10' | [...] nesag#?-ga2 a-a ugu-gu10#?-[...] | |
| 11' | nindaba#-bi {d#}en-lil2 nibru#[{ki}-sze3 ...] | |
| 12' | en iri bar-ra# en iri sza3!-ga [...] | |
| 13' | uri2#{ki} iri# {gesz#}al#-e ri#-[...] | |
| 14' | x-ur2 ki? ni2 dub2#?-bu#? [...] | |
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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