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JCS 08, 086, CNMA 10099 (P355648)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | JCS 08, 086, CNMA 10099 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355648 |
| Museum no. | NMC 10099 |
| Collection | Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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 | [ŋa₂]-e diŋir-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-na-[ak] | what did the boat of Ibirbu do? |
| 2 | diŋir-ŋu₁₀ niŋ₂ u₃-tu-na-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-⸢na⸣-[ak] | “If he slips in through a hole, |
| 3 | {⸢a⸣}aŋarinₓ(ENGUR)e niŋ₂ dim₂-dim₂-ma-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-na-[ak] | What did the abarin priestess do? |
| 4 | ⸢dam⸣-gar₃ lu₂ ŋeš-rin₂-na-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-na-[ak] | to the “house-of-the-fodder-house"(?) of a man who a scepter for |
| 5 | ⸢ama⸣-a-tu-da-ni i₃-ŋen-na-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-[na-ak] | his mother-in-law spoke to him, what did he do? |
| 6 | šubur-ra-ni i₃-ŋen-na-ŋu₁₀ a-na i₃-[na-ak] | his son he spoke to him, what did he do? |
| 7 | u₃-mu-un uš ⸢gi⸣-ne₂ ŋa₂-e LU-x-na-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [a-na i₃-na-ak] | Lord, when he enters the reedbed, ... to him |
| 8 | gud-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [e₂-tur₃-ra] la-ba-an-⸢keš₂⸣ | The oxen did not enter the cattlepen |
| 9 | ⸢udu-ŋu₁₀⸣ [amaš-a] ⸢la-ba⸣-an-[keš₂] | ēdu-bû-plant, an alabaster plant |
| 10 | [u₂] ⸢i₃-pad₃ ni₂-ŋu₁₀-še₃⸣ la-ba-⸢ni⸣-[ib-gu₇] | He did not eat the plants that he had found. |
| 11 | a i₃-pad₃ [ni₂-ŋu₁₀-še₃ la-ba-ni-naŋ] | he did not find water for himself |
| 12 | u₂ i₃-⸢pa₃ ba⸣-[...] ŋa₂-e [...] | He found food, he was able to ... it |
| 13 | [a] i₃-pa₃ ⸢ba⸣-[...] ŋa₂-e [...] | “As soon as he has found water, he will seek it out(?) |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] saŋ [...] | ... ...; |
| 2' | [(x)] {ŋeš}al ak ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... the hoe, ... ... |
| 3' | [(x)] ⸢GAN₂⸣-GAN₂ gal-⸢la⸣ [...] | “(If) a field is surrounded by a large field |
| 4' | [x] ki lu₂-da ib/ke₄ [...] | ... with a man |
| 5' | [(x)] {ŋeš}apin ki DU-a-ŋu₁₀ x [...] ša₃-ŋu₁₀ x [...] | ... the plow |
| 6' | u₈-e sila₄-bi(DU) nu-un-šub [...] | The ewe does not lay down its lamb |
| 7' | ab₂-e amar-bi nu-un-šub ⸢za⸣-[e ...] | The cow does not graze its calf, the za’e-priestess ... |
| 8' | um-me-da dumu nu-un-šub za-e [...] | The nursemaid does not raise a child, you |
| 9' | HU-HU im-hul ba U₂ ERIN₂ SAR/in-[...] za-e ŋa₂-e [...] | ... evil ... ... you ... |
| 10' | diŋir-ŋu₁₀ nam-tag-ga-ŋu₁₀ imin [a-ra₂ imin] diŋir-ŋu₁₀ nam-tag-ga-ŋu₁₀ [du₈-ha] | The seven evils, seven times seven, the seven evildoers are released. |
| 11' | X [...] | |
| 12' | x-x [...] | |
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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