CDLI Literary 000619, ex. 083 & 000623, ex. 106 (P346604)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000619, ex. 083 & 000623, ex. 106 |
|---|---|
| ID | P346604 |
| 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 col 1' 1 | Its able-bodied young men were chased away into captivity/as corpses(?) by themselves for you |
| obverse col 1' 2 | The city that has not (compelled its people) to say “the land/mountain is for you” |
| obverse col 1' 3 | Nor has (its people) said “your father (...)” |
| obverse col 1' 4 | (Despite) your holy word being spoken (to them)(?), may that place back in its tracks(!?) |
| obverse col 1' 5 | And (the city?) slip away from its womb/matrix (i.e., be stillborn?) |
| obverse col 1' 6 | Its woman will not say pleasant things with her husband |
| obverse col 1' 7 | Nor advise him at night |
| obverse col 1' 8 | Nor reveal the purity of her heart |
| obverse col 1' 9 | Aroused wild cow, eldest child of Suen |
| obverse col 1' 10 | Lady who is superior to An, who has deprived(?) you? |
| obverse col 1' 11 | One who validates(?) the cosmic powers/rites, great queen of queens |
| obverse col 1' 12' | One who emerged from the holy womb superior to her birth mother |
| obverse col 1' 13' | She is the wise, discerning queen of the lands |
| obverse col 2' 1 | He has caused my utter destruction(?) in a “place of violence” |
| obverse col 2' 2 | Dilimbabbar has not undertaken my case |
| obverse col 2' 3 | (If) he did, what is to me? (If) he did not, what is it to me? |
| obverse col 2' 4 | Victorious, he (Lugalane) drove me out from the temple |
| obverse col 2' 5 | Like a swallow, he made me fly away from the window, my life was consumed |
| obverse col 2' 6 | He(!) makes (me) go(!?) in the ... brambles of the mountain |
| obverse col 2' 7 | He removed the true crown of the en priestess from (my head) |
| obverse col 2' 8 | Most precious lady, loved by An |
| obverse col 2' 9 | Most precious lady, loved by An |
| obverse col 2' 10 | May your holy heart, which is supreme, be restored to its place for me |
| obverse col 2' 11 | Beloved spouse of (Ama)'ušumgal(ana) (Dumuzi) |
| obverse col 2' 12 | Who is the great queen of the horizon and zenith (i.e., the whole of heaven) |
| obverse col 2' 13 | The Anuna have submitted to you(!?) |
| obverse col 2' 14 | Since birth you have been the younger sister (of Utu) |
| obverse col 2' 15 | And thus (you) have been superior to the Anuna, the great gods |
| obverse col 2' 16 | The Anuna kiss the ground with their lips for you |
| obverse col 2' 17 | My case has not been finalized, (but the threat of) a hostile decision, like my case(?), lingers(?) in my face |
| reverse col 1 1' | The enemy and the evildoer have not escaped its grasp |
| reverse col 1 2' | (In) the city that has been endowed with truth |
| reverse col 1 3' | Which has made righteousness and justice into a treasure |
| reverse col 1 4' | Where clean clothes are at the quay |
| reverse col 1 5' | The older brother is to honor the younger brother and behave with humanity |
| reverse col 1 6' | One is to listen to the word of the father, and (thus) succeeds (repays himself) |
| reverse col 1 7' | The son is to humbly revere his mother (so that?) he endures until(?) (his) old age |
| reverse col 1 8' | It is at the holy city and settlement of Enlil |
| reverse col 1 9' | It is at Nibru, the beloved shrine of the Great Mountain |
| reverse col 1 10' | (And thus?) its(?) ... of(?) abundance, the temple(?) ..., he raised |
| reverse col 1 11' | Like(!?) a towering(?) mountain range, he made it grow in a pure place |
| reverse col 1 12' | Its ruler, the Great Mountain, father Enlil |
| reverse col 1 13' | In the Ekur, the supreme shrine, he has sat on its dais |
| reverse col 1 14' | No one can disperse the cosmic powers of that temple |
| reverse col 1 15' | Its pure place(!) of washing rites(?), like the earth, does not cease |
| reverse col 1 16' | Its cosmic powers are the cosmic powers of the Abzu, which no one is to see |
| reverse col 1 17' | Its inside it a vast sea (whose) horizon is unknown |
| reverse col 1 18' | On its platform/retaining wall? (with?) sparkling standards(?) |
| reverse col 2 1' | Your Ekur, the lapis temple, supreme dwelling bearing an aura |
| reverse col 2 2' | Its aura touches heaven |
| reverse col 2 3' | And therefore(?) its shade stretches over the lands |
| reverse col 2 4' | And therefore(?) its sacred space(?) opens up towards the midst of heaven |
| reverse col 2 5' | The lords and rulers |
| reverse col 2 6' | Brought the holy nindaba offerings there properly |
| reverse col 2 7' | And ... prays/beseeches him with šud prayers(?) and siskur rites |
| reverse col 2 8' | Enlil, your shepherd that you looked at faithfully |
| reverse col 2 9' | The one (you) called to faithfully, the one (you) elevated in the land |
| reverse col 2 10' | The land to his hand, the land to his feet |
| reverse col 2 11' | (You make?) the (most) distant place of the land(s) submit to him |
| reverse col 2 12' | Accumulated(?) like frost, that which is all over the ground(?) |
| reverse col 2 13' | Its weighty mašdaria deliveries and tribute |
| reverse col 2 14' | He brought in regularly into the treasury |
| reverse col 2 15' | He conveyed nindaba offerings into the supreme courtyard |
| reverse col 2 16' | He brought(?) them into the Ekur in the manner of heaps |
| reverse col 2 17' | Enlil, true shepherd of that which teems(?) together |
| reverse col 2 18' | He is the herder and leader of living things |
| reverse col 2 19' | He made his great rulership manifest(?) |
| reverse col 2 20' | He made the pure crown and pectoral(?) verdant/beautiful(?) on (his body) |
| reverse col 2 21' | In the Tumuhursag temple, where he resides on the dais |
| reverse col 2 22' | He shall lay across(?) heaven like a rainbow |
| reverse col 2 23' | He went by himself as a floating cloud |
| reverse col 2 24' | He is the only ruler(?) of heaven, he is the ušumgal creature of the earth |
| reverse col 2 25' | He is the supreme god of the Anuna |
| reverse col 2 26' | And therefore he decrees his own fate |
| reverse col 2 27' | (Subtotal:) ...+17 |
| reverse col 3 2' | Enlil, your craftiness is full of (i.e., induces?) stupor |
| reverse col 3 3' | Its contents are a tangled thread that is not to be set straight |
| reverse col 3 4' | It is tangled threads that the eye is not to follow |
| reverse col 3 6' | You are your own deliberator, advisor, and lord |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse col 1' | ||
| 1 | [...]-ra#-an-sar-re-esz | |
| 2 | [...]-ga#-am3 | |
| 3 | [...]-ne#?-esz-am3 | |
| 4 | [...] giri3#-ba he2-em-gi4 | |
| 5 | [...]-ib2-ta-an-ze2-er | |
| 6 | [...]-ga# nam-da-ab-be2 | |
| 7 | [...]-ab#-gi4-gi4 | |
| 8 | [...]-bur2-re | |
| 9 | [... {d}]suen#-na | |
| 10 | [...]-tum3 | |
| 11 | [...]-ne# | |
| 12' | [...]-diri#? | |
| 13' | [...]-am3 | |
| obverse col 2' | ||
| 1 | ki-lul-la# he2#?-eb2?-[...] | |
| 2 | {d}dil-im2-babbar-e di-gu10 ba-ra#-[...] | |
| 3 | bi2-in-du11 nam-gu10 li-bi2-in#-[...] | |
| 4 | u3-ma gub-gub-ba-am3 e2-ta ba#?-[...] | |
| 5 | sim{muszen}-gin7 ab-ta ba-ra#?-an-dal#-[...] | |
| 6 | {gesz}kiszig HI kur-ra-ke4 bi2#-[...] | |
| 7 | aga3 zi nam-men mu-da#?-an#?-[...] | |
| 8 | giri2 ba-da-ra ma-an-szum2 a-ra-[...]-an#-du11# | |
| 9 | nin# kal-kal-la an-ne2 ki ag2# | |
| 10 | sza3# ku3#-zu mah-a ki#-bi ha#-[...]-gi4#? | |
| 11 | gidlam# ki ag2 uszumgal#?-ka#? | |
| 12 | an-ur2 an-pa nin# gal#-bi#-im | |
| 13 | {d}a-nun-na-ke4-ne gu2# [...] ma-an-gar#-re-esz | |
| 14 | u3-tu-da-ta nin9 banda3#?{+da#?}-bi#?-me#?-en#? | |
| 15 | {d}a-nun-na dingir gal-gal-e-ne [...]-ne#-diri#-ga | |
| 16 | [{d}]a#-nun-na-ke4-ne nundum#-nundum#-bi#?-[...] ki su!-ub ma#?-ra#?-[...] | |
| 17 | [...]-ga2# nu-mu-til x [...] | |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | [lu2]-erim2 lu2#-[...] | |
| 2' | iri#{ki#} nig2-gi-na sag#-gesz# [...] | |
| 3' | nig2-zi nig2-si-sa2 gil-sa#-[...] | |
| 4' | tug2 dan6-dan6-na kar-ra# [...] | |
| 5' | szesz-gal szesz-banda3{+da} dugud-de-dam# [...] | |
| 6' | inim ab-ba-sze3 gizzal x-[...] ni2 szu-a gi4-gi4-dam# | |
| 7' | dumu ama-ni-ir sun5-na ni2 te-ge26#-x nam-ab-ba su3#-u4-dam# | |
| 8' | iri a2-dam ku3 {d}en-lil2-la2-kam | |
| 9' | nibru#{ki#} esz3# ki# ag2# a-a kur#-gal#-la#-kam | |
| 10' | KU#? nam-he2-bi#? e2#? ME? |MUNUS.X| [...] sza#?-ba-ra-an-il2#? | |
| 11' | hur#!?-sag#!? il2-il2#? ki# sikil#!?-la bi2#?-mu2#? | |
| 12' | nun-bi kur-gal a-a {d#}en#-lil2# | |
| 13' | e2-kur# esz3#!? mah#?-a bara2#-ba#? dur2 bi2-in#-[...] | |
| 14' | e2-a me-bi dingir#!? sag2# [...] | |
| 15' | szu-luh ki#? sikil#-bi ki-gin7# [...] | |
| 16' | me-bi me#? x-x [...] | |
| 17' | sza3#-bi# ab#? [...] | |
| 18' | kissa# [...] | |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | [...] e2 za-gin3 ki-tusz mah#? [...] | |
| 2' | ni2 me#-lam2-bi an-ne2# [...] | |
| 3' | gissu-bi kur-kur-ra sza#-[...] | |
| 4' | musz3-bi an-sza3#-ga-asz sza-mu-un#-[...] | |
| 5' | en-en-e-ne bara2-bara2-ge2-[...] | |
| 6' | nindaba ku3-ga# si mu#-[...] | |
| 7' | szud3 siskur2-ra u3-gul# [...] | |
| 8' | {d}en-lil2 sipa igi zi bar#-[...] | |
| 9' | gu3 zi# de2#-a kalam#?-ma# il2-la | |
| 10' | [...] giri3#-ni-sze3 | |
| 11' | [...]-bi# gu2 mu-na-ab-ga2-ga2 | |
| 12' | [...] du7#?-a nig2 ki-szar2#?-ra-ke4 | |
| 13' | [...]-a#? gu2-un dugud-da-bi | |
| 14' | [...] x e2# nig2-gur11-ra-ka | |
| 15' | [...] nindaba# si bi2-sa2 | |
| 16' | [...] ma#-sar-re-esz# im#-mi-in-tum2 | |
| 17' | [...] x [...] tesz2#?-ba# lu-a | |
| 18' | [na]-gada#? mas-su nig2-zi-gal2#-la#-kam# | |
| 19' | nam#-nun gal-a-ni pa e3-szi bi2-x | |
| 20' | men# suh10 ku3-ga mu-ni-in-sig7 | |
| 21' | tu15-hur-sag bara2-ge si-a-na#! | |
| 22' | {d}tir-an-na-gin7 an-ne2 szi-im-gi16#?-ib# | |
| 23' | dungu diri-ga-am3 ni2-bi mu-e#?-gen | |
| 24' | an-na dili nun-bi-im ki#!-a uszumgal-bi#?-im | |
| 25' | {d#}a-nun#-ke4-ne dingir# mah-bi-im | |
| 26' | nam# ni2-te-a-ni szi-im-mi-in-tar-re#? | |
| 27' | [...] 1(u) 7(disz@v) | |
| reverse col 3 | ||
| 1' | [...]-nu2? | |
| 2' | [...]-me#-gar sug4?-ga#?-am3 | |
| 3' | [...]-e#-de3 | |
| 4' | [...]-de3#?-dam | |
| 5' | [...]-ma? | |
| 6' | [...] ni2#?-te#?-na-me-en | |
| 7' | [...]-un#? | |
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