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Ist Ni 00475 (P355672)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Ist Ni 00475 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355672 |
| Museum no. | Ist Ni 00475 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | kuš₂-ša an-ga-am₃ an-ga-am₃ kuš₂-u₃ | It is her skin, it is her hair! |
| 2 | e₂ gul-la ki-bi me-na gi₄-gi₄-⸢mu⸣ | The destroyed house, when will it be restored? |
| 3 | nu-gig an-na {d}ga-ša-an-an-na-mu | The nugig priestess of heaven, Gašananamu |
| 4 | kur gul-gul ga-ša-an e₂-an-na-mu | Destroyer of mountains, lady of the Eanna temple |
| 5 | e₂ ma-mu₂-da ma-du₃-a-mu | My house that was built with me, that I built for me. |
| 6 | uru₂ ma-mu₂-da ma-du₃-a-mu | The city that I built, I built it for me. |
| 7 | e₂ tur₃ amaš-gin₇ lu-lu-a-mu | My house, like a cattlepen and sheepfold, that is filled with splendor |
| 8 | e-ze₂-gin₇ amaš-gin₇ lu-lu-a-mu | Like sheep, like sheep in the sheepfold |
| 9 | bur-gul-e bur ba-an-gul-la-mu | The burgul priestess, when my bur-demon was destroyed, |
| 10 | za-gin₃-dim₂-e za-gin₃ ba-an-dim₂-ma-mu | The lapis lazuli was fashioned like lapis. |
| 11 | ka₂-bi-ta ki u₆-di-mu | from its gate, the place of lordship |
| 12 | ki šu-me-ša₄ na-aŋ₂-lu₂-ulu₃-mu | from Šumeša Naya-lulumu |
| 13 | ma-aŋ₂-ma-ra kur-kur-ra-mu | My land all over the lands |
| 14 | i₃-du₃-am₃ kur in-ga-du₃-am₃ | It was built, the land was also built. |
| 15 | ba-gul-gul kur ba-da-gul-gul | It was destroyed, the land was destroyed. |
| 16 | dam sig₅-ga kur-re ba-da-ab-ga | The enemy took away the good spouse. |
| 17 | dumu sig₅-ga kur-re ba-da-ab-ga | The enemy has taken away the good son. |
| 18 | ⸢ezen⸣ gal-bi šu nu-du₇-du₇ | Its great ezen temple is not tended |
| 19 | me gal-gal-bi e₂ am₃-gi₄ | Its great mes are returned to the house. |
| 20 | me-bi al-ur₄-ur₄ ub ba-ra-an-gub | Its mes were scattered, they did not stand in the corner. |
| 21 | biluda-bi aŋ₂ ba-da-an-kur₂ bala-bi ba-kur₂-kur₂ | Its wages have been changed, its reign has been changed. |
| 22 | e₂ zi-da bala-bi bala kur₂-ra šu bal ⸢ak⸣-a-bi | The bala of the true temple is a new bala, the hand of its bala is an empty wind |
| 23 | e₂ zi-a mu-gi-ga nam-me-a lil₂-la₂-am₃ ba-ni-in-ku₄ | In the true house, the mugīga-priestess enters like a ghost. |
| 24 | ka-lu-šu-nu i-za-ma-ru | all of them will sing. |
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