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NFT p. 209 (P355653)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Girsu · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | NFT p. 209 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355653 |
| Museum no. | AO 04334 + AO 04339 + AO 04340 + AO 04341 |
| 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)
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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 i | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣;-na | ... the ... of the temple |
| 2' | e-zu am mu-gi₄-ib e-⸢zu⸣ me-nam ku-šu [...] | Your house, wild bull, mugib priestess, your house, me, ... |
| 3' | e-gi ma-lu ⸢x⸣ [...] me-nam ⸢x⸣ [...] | The princess, who is abundant(?) ... where is ...? |
| 4' | a-a-na ⸢a⸣-[...] ⸢me⸣-[nam ...] | (Sum) When I go to the temple, I am the one who makes the temple tremble(?) (Akk) To the temple of the god(?) ... |
| 5' | a-a {⸢d⸣}[...] me-⸢nam⸣ [...] | Father Enlil ... me-Enam-Enlil |
| 6' | šeg₁₂ ⸢unug⸣ [...] me-⸢nam⸣ [...] | The brickwork of the Unug temple ..., where can I go? |
| 7' | u₂-ru ku-la-ab ⸢x x⸣ [x x] ki-ba-⸢za⸣ | The city Kulaba |
| 8' | ŋi₆-ba-re na-mi-na-za me-⸢nam⸣ ku-ku-te | When you go to the watercourse, you are enraged. |
| o ii | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [...] ⸢ba⸣-ab ze₂ me-en | ... I am the ... of the Ebaba temple |
| 2' | [...] ⸢balaŋ⸣ gub-⸢ba-a⸣ [...]-⸢e⸣-te | ... standing in the balaŋ-temple |
| 3' | [...] ⸢balaŋ⸣ gub-ba [...] ⸢x⸣-e-te | ... stationed in the balaŋ-house |
| 4' | [...] ⸢x⸣-za [e]-te | ... approached your ... |
| 6' | u₂-ru ⸢x⸣ [...] [...] | The city ... |
| 7' | ⸢ŋi₆-ba-ra/re⸣ [...] | ... the Ibara canal |
| r i | ||
| 1 | ⸢a-x⸣ [...] u₃ [...] | ... and |
| 2 | a-a [...] [...] | Father ... |
| 3 | a ⸢u₃⸣ ra-ra-ke₄-ne ni-du u₃ me ta ma-gin₇ | The water of the rāra canal, the nidu canal, what ...? |
| 4 | gi-bi si ⸢ku-ku mu-na⸣-ra-⸢ta⸣ u₃ me ta me-gin₇ | Its reeds are filled with joy, they are brought out for you, and what is like the divine powers? |
| 5 | ⸢at⸣-te-ra e-⸢ma⸣ [x x] ⸢te-a te bi-ib-za⸣ | When you enter, when you enter ..., how is it that you are freed? |
| 6 | unug{ki} a-a-an-na te-a <(te bi-ib-za)> | Uruk, what has been done to you? |
| 7 | zabalam{ki} gi₄-ku-na mi-li-a-a te-a te bi-ib-za | Zabalam, your servant, what has been done to you? How has it been done? |
| 8 | ⸢x⸣-ma urim₂(AB@g){ki} e₂-dilmun [te]-⸢a x x⸣ bi-ib-za-al | When you enter Ur, the Edilmun temple, ... will be scattered. |
| 9 | [...] ⸢x-še⸣ ku mi [x x bi-ib-za]-⸢al⸣ | ... he will raise ... for you |
| r ii | ||
| 1 | [x] ⸢x⸣ be₂-e lu-ul-lu-ga-še ⸢e-di⸣ ta ba-ab-ne-ne | The ... of the evildoer, what did the edi priests do? |
| 2 | ši-el-am mar-bi zu-ki a mu | Šī-Elam, whose calf is cut off, name of the year |
| 3 | še mar-bi zu-ki du mu | The barley of the threshing floor is paid in full. |
| 4 | u₂-ru-a nu-ti-il nu-ti-il te mu-ši-im-ne-ne | In the city he does not live, he did not live - what is their fate? |
| 5 | e-gi-re mu-ud-na-ŋu₁₀ ⸢nu⸣-ti-il nu-ti-il | The princess, the spouse, does not live there anymore. |
| 6 | dam-ŋu₁₀ me-ŋu₁₀ nu-ti-⸢il⸣ <(nu-ti-il)> | (Sum) My spouse, I do not live there anymore (Akk) The spouse does not dwell there anymore |
| 7 | dam gal kal-la-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [nu-ti];-il nu-ti-il | The great wife Kalla-ešti has not lived, has not live. |
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- 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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