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NFT p. 211, AO 4316 (P355659)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Girsu · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | NFT p. 211, AO 4316 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355659 |
| Museum no. | AO 04316 |
| 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 | ||
| 1 | ⸢ŋa₂⸣ {d}ba-u₂ BU ⸢mu⸣-[(x x)] ⸢e x⸣ | “Ba’e, Bau, ..., |
| 2 | ⸢igi x⸣ he₂-⸢em⸣-še-ŋal₂-⸢la⸣ | May he cast him before ... |
| 3 | ⸢lu₂⸣ [x] ⸢he₂-me⸣-di | May the elû-priestess ... eḫeme-edi |
| 4 | an [hu]-⸢mu⸣-na-⸢ku-ul⸣-ku-ul | May heaven be pure for him |
| 5 | ⸢lu₂⸣ [x] re-⸢e he₂⸣-hu-le | May the lord rejoice over ... |
| 6 | ⸢gi⸣ re ⸢e di⸣ {d}ba-u₂-še₃ | “The princess, the princess, judge of Bau, |
| 7 | ⸢ŋa₂⸣ {d}ba-u₂ BU ⸢ŋa₂⸣ | “Bābu, BU (means) ba’e23. |
| 8 | ⸢nin⸣ niŋ₂ hu-ur su-ga | “Lady, whose fearsomeness is extinguished, |
| 9 | ⸢lugal ur⸣-saŋ ⸢gal⸣-ŋu₉ | king of Ur, great king |
| 10 | ⸢x x ŋi₆ ki⸣ |KA×X|ŋu₉ | “The ... of the temple, the place of the ... |
| 11 | {d}⸢ig-alim⸣-ma-ŋu₉ | Eg-alim-ema-bu |
| 12 | ⸢lu₂ di x sa⸣ ku-ru-ta | “Lord, from the ... of the netherworld |
| 13 | {d}⸢šul-ša₃⸣-ga-na-ŋu₉ | Ea-vulša-egana-bu |
| 14 | [x x] ⸢AN x x⸣ [...] | ... ēšu-plant |
| r | ||
| 30' | ⸢x⸣ {[d}ba]-⸢u₂ a⸣ [x x] | “Ba’eu, the father |
| 31' | ⸢he₂-hu-le⸣ [(x)] | eḫulē plant |
| 32' | nin bu-ur₂-⸢šum₂-ma⸣ | lady of the būr-ešumma temple |
| 33' | a-a {d}en-⸢lil₂⸣-la₂-kam | It is the father of Enlil. |
| 34' | du-ur₂-ri ŋal₂-ŋa₂ du | “It is a flood that is to be carried away.’ |
| 35' | ama {d}⸢nin⸣-lil₂-la₂-kam | It is the mother of Eninil. |
| 36' | lu₂ ša₃-gi₄ pa₃-⸢da⸣ | the man who the šag-priestess has chosen |
| 37' | {d}nin-ŋir₂-su-⸢ka-kam⸣ | of Ninbirsu, |
| 38' | dumu-ka ŋa₂ ⸢nunus⸣ [(x)] | your child, a female slave |
| 39' | {d}uraš-ša-⸢kam⸣ | Uraš-ēkam-e23 |
| 40' | nin ⸢ama⸣ ki-⸢aŋ₂⸣ [...] | The lady of the mother-in-law, the ... place |
| 41' | e-⸢ner⸣ ma ni AN [x] | E-nere ... |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | {d}ba-u₂ ⸢ki-e₃ x⸣ [(x)] e₃ | Bau went out to the Eki, he went out |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢u₄⸣ ta-ri-še₃ ba-ba-de-e-de | ... the storm that was set against the sea(?) |
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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