AUWE 23, 125 (P349128)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Uruk · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AUWE 23, 125 |
|---|---|
| ID | P349128 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [in]-ŋa₂-dur₂-u₃-nam er₂-re ša₃ si-ni [...] | I sit down in tears, her heart trembles |
| 2 | [in]-⸢ŋa₂⸣-dur₂-u₃-nam mu-lu er₂-re in-⸢ŋa₂-dur₂⸣-[u₃-nam] | You sit down, the one who weeps, you sit down. |
| 3 | [...] ⸢x⸣ er₂-re in-ŋa₂-dur₂-[u₃-nam] | ... sits in tears. |
| 4 | [...] ⸢er₂⸣ e₂-kur-ra-⸢ke₄⸣ | ... of the Ereš temple, the Ekur temple |
| 5 | [...]-x er₂ keš₃{ki}a-⸢ke₄⸣ | ... weeping over Keš |
| 6 | [... ga-ša]-an-nibru{ki} er₂ e₂-šu-me-ša₄-⸢ke₄⸣ | ... Gašannibru in tears over the Ešumeša temple |
| 7 | [... ga-ša]-an-ŋa₂-gi₄-a er₂ e₂-sakar-ra-⸢ke₄⸣ | ... Gašanagia weeps over the Esakar temple |
| 8 | [... ga-ša]-an-i₃-si-in{ki} er₂ i₃-si-in{ki}⸢ke₄⸣ | ... Gašanisina weeps over Isin |
| 9 | [... ga-ša]-⸢an⸣-tin-u₉-ba er₂ uru₂-saŋ-⸢ŋa₂-ke₄ x⸣ | ... Gašanean-tinuba weeps in Urusa-e22 |
| 10 | [... ga-ša-an] ⸢e₂⸣-an-na er₂ e₂-an-na-ke₄ | ... lady of the Eana, the tears over the Eanna |
| 11 | [...] ⸢x er₂⸣-ra ⸢e₂⸣-zu de₃-ra-pa₃-de₃ | ... may he/she say to you "may your temple be your temple of tears" |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢a⸣-na ki-bi-še₃ am₃-[me] | ... he says at its place |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x⸣ i-lu-a u₄ mu-ni-ib-zal-e | ... spent the day in lamentation |
| 3' | [...] šir₃ er₂-a u₄ mu-ni-ib-zal-e | ... spends the day in tears |
| 4' | [...] ⸢mu⸣-un-gi₄-gi₄ tur₃-re nu-mu-⸢sed₄⸣-de₃ | ... does not return and does not cool down in the cattlepen |
| 5' | [...] ⸢mu⸣-gi₄-gi₄ amaš-a nu-mu-te-en-te-en | ... does not calm down in the sheepfold |
| 6' | [u₂] ⸢al⸣-lu-lu u₂ nu-gu₇-e | The elulu plant does not eat the food |
| 7' | [a al]-lu-lu a nu-na₈-na₈ | The water is plentiful, the water does not drink. |
| 8' | [e-ne]-⸢ra⸣ murgu₂-ni a kum₂ a sed₄-de₃ tug₂ la(RA-)ba-ra-si-ge | When he enters, he does not put on a garment for him. |
| 9' | [ŋa₂]-⸢ra ta⸣ me-ma-al bil₂-⸢la₂⸣-bi ⸢am₃-me⸣ | What did I bring into the boat? What was there? Its rafts were brought in. |
| 10' | {[d}mu]-⸢ul-lil₂ me⸣-na-še₃ ur₅-ra-bi am₃-⸢me⸣ | “Mullil, when you enter, you enter its midst. |
| 11' | ⸢ki-ru⸣-gu₂ 4kam-ma-am₃ | It is the fourth song. |
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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