SpTU 5, 251 (P348838)
Literary, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 5, 251 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348838 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
English translation
By ORACC project cams/gkab · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] Gilgameš, the inhabitant of the Underworld, [...] as much as ... [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] the crossing of the Habur ... [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] ... on ... [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] he had sent down [...], the one of the Underworld [...] into your hand |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] ... at the crossing you ... [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] to the crossing you [...] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] x x x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] {⸢d⸣}GIŠ-gim₂-maš a-šib er-kal-⸢li⸣ [...] ; ma-la x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ne₂⸣-be₂-ru {id₂}hu-bur A ⸢LI⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] MA KA NIG₂ IR e-li ⸢GA⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | [... u₂-še]-⸢ri⸣-du ša₂ KI{ti₃} qa-tuk-⸢ka⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...]-MEŠ ina ne₂-be₂-ru ta-⸢AG DU⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ana ne₂-be₂-ru ta-[...] | |
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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