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NFT p. 208 (P355652)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Girsu · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | NFT p. 208 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355652 |
| Museum no. | AO 04329 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Girsu (mod. Tello) |
| Coordinates | 31.5591, 46.1776 |
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)
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 ii' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢ke₄⸣ | ..., |
| 2' | [a]-⸢še⸣-er ša₃-ga-za ⸢ki⸣-ku ⸢ša₃⸣ gi-ra-za | In your midst, in Eku, in your shrine |
| 3' | u₂ ⸢di x ga⸣ da ⸢na⸣ [(x) x] ⸢x-ra⸣ | I want to bring ... next to the ... of the temple |
| 4' | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x] ⸢x x-da⸣ | “[... ...]-da’e23 |
| 5' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [x] [x] ⸢mu⸣-[da]-⸢hu-le⸣ | ... ešû-plant |
| 6' | [x]-⸢gi⸣-ŋu₉ ⸢nu⸣-di-te;-⸢x⸣ mu-da-hu-le | ... rejoices over him. |
| 7' | [x]-⸢x-li⸣ mu-da;-[hu-le] | ... rejoices over me. |
| o iii' | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢me-li gaba-na⸣ na-mu-ŋal₂ | ... he should not carry ... on his chest |
| 2' | ⸢u₂ x x x⸣ ⸢ša₃ x x⸣ [(x)] ⸢x ku⸣-na ⸢x-na⸣ [mu]-⸢di-di⸣ | “The ... of the temple, the ... that is in the temple ..., I have been wandering about. |
| 3' | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ ⸢x ku na x na⸣ mu-⸢di⸣-di | “... ..., ... the ... of the king, I am going around. |
| 4' | i-⸢gi₄⸣ u₂-ra-na gi-ri u₂-ra-na še ba-na-ni-⸢ša₄⸣ | He returned to his cella, the reeds returned to her cella. |
| 5' | i-gi₄ ša₃ [x x] ⸢al-x⸣ [...] | The eye ... the eal. |
| r i' | ||
| 1' | [munus] ⸢mu-ti-in⸣-[e] mu-ne-ku-ku [(x)] | “If a woman gives birth to a child, |
| 2' | mu-ti-in munus-sa-še še-er du₁₁-ga me-en | I am the man who makes the woman bow down. |
| 3' | i-ri-ma ŋal₂-la šeg₁₂ u₂-be₂ me-en | I am the one who is carried away by tears and sighs. |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x⸣ [...] ⸢x ŋi₆ x⸣ [...] ⸢li-bi-re⸣ [x x] ⸢x⸣ | “The ... temple, the ... of the city ..., the Elibire temple |
| 2' | šim-bi₂ ⸢ni gu₂⸣-ta ba-ni-be₂ sipa-de nu-zu | Its horns roared, the shepherd did not know |
| 3' | sipa-⸢de⸣ ga-du-ru;-du-ru-ne šu am-ku-ur₂;-ku-re | I want to utter a lament to the shepherd, but he is tired of it |
| 4' | ⸢ama⸣ ŋuruš-ša₃-a-ke₄ du-sa-ba ŋa₂ a-a bi;-ib;-⸢ki⸣-ki | The mother of the cows, the suckling one, may he not return to E-ki. |
| 5' | ŋu₉-ru-še lu-ma-li-a-na ŋa₂-ra mu-da-gub | He set up a scepter for Lu-mali. |
| 6' | lu-ma-li-a tu-ne ta-na-še ŋa₂-ra mu-da;-gub | (Sum) The lilû priestess, when she gives birth, stands with him (Akk) She gives birth to the līma-priestesses, she is standing with him |
| 7' | [...] ⸢mu dam ku kam⸣ | ... I am the pure spouse |
| r iii' | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] ⸢na⸣ [...] ⸢maš₂ du⸣ [...] ⸢na⸣ [...] ⸢gin₇⸣ [...] ⸢x ba na⸣ [...]-ŋu₉ a-ra-⸢li⸣;-ŋu₉ [...]-⸢x-ŋu₉⸣ [...] ⸢x da⸣ [...] ⸢x⸣ a-ra-li;-ŋu₉ | (Sum) ... ... (Akk) The ... of the ... temple ... |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ir⸣ hu-mu;-⸢ni⸣-a [...] ⸢x⸣-ke₄ | ... may he rise! ... the ... temple |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x⸣ bi [...] ⸢x⸣-li-mu | ... that temple ... the temple |
| 4' | [...] ⸢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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