UET 6, 0665 (P346702)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | UET 6, 0665 |
|---|---|
| ID | P346702 |
| 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 3' | ... farmer? of the gods |
| obverse 4' | ... cared for in the Abzu |
| obverse 7' | ... its destiny(?) is pure(?) |
| obverse 8' | ... bound/bundled(?) the reed |
| obverse 9' | Kusu, the chief sanga priest of Enlil |
| obverse 10' | Took the great standard |
| reverse 1 | He purifies it, he sanctifies it |
| reverse 2 | It is the incantation of the great standard |
| reverse 3 | Water that flowed from the pure mountain, water that flowed from the pure mountain range |
| reverse 4 | Halhal, the mother of the mountain range |
| reverse 5 | Gave birth to it in the midst of the mountain |
| reverse 6 | The pure place, the holy place, coming out from the mountain range |
| reverse 7 | Eridu ... |
| reverse 9 | Water ... |
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' | x [...] x [...]-ra [...] | |
| 2' | [...] GI x x x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] engar? dingir-re-e-ne# | |
| 4' | [...] abzux(|SZA3.ZU|)-ta# mi2#? zi du11-ga | |
| 5' | [...] E2-NUN#? [...]-KA kam#? | |
| 6' | [...] IM#? [...] x im#-ma-an-x | |
| 7' | [...]-ta# nam-bi sikil-[...] | |
| 8' | [...] x-ta gi im-ma-kesz2#? | |
| 9' | {d#?}ku3#?-su3 sanga2 mah {d}en-lil2-la2-ke4# | |
| 10' | urin# gal#-e szu ba-an-ti | |
| 11' | x [...] x ba-an-x | |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | mu-un-sikil mu-un-dadag-ge | |
| 2 | ka-inim-ma urin gal-la-[kam] | |
| 3 | a kur-ra ku3-ga gen-a a hur-sag-ga2 sikil-la gen-a | |
| 4 | {i7}hal-hal#-la# ama hur-sag-ga2-ke4 | |
| 5 | sza3 kur-ra mu-un-tu-u4 | |
| 6 | ki sikil ki ku3-ga hur-sag-ta e3 | |
| 7 | eridu{ki} x x nam nam-mi-in-x | |
| 8 | x x [...] x ki x [...] | |
| 9 | a a#? x [...] | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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