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RA 094, 012-013 (P355682)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | RA 094, 012-013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355682 |
| Museum no. | MAH 16016 |
| Collection | Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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' | {d}gu-nu-⸢ra⸣ [...] x | Gunu’e |
| 2' | šeš-ŋu₁₀ id₂-da du gu₃ he₂-em-me peš₁₀-⸢ta⸣ [...] x | May the šubû-priest cries out in the river, ... from the river bank |
| 3' | id₂-da du kur-ra gu₃ he₂-em-me peš₁₀-ta ha-⸢ni-x-DU⸣ | May he call out from the river that flows in the nether world |
| 4' | nin₉ peš₁₀-ta mu-un-da-du-u₃-nam dili ⸢nam⸣-mu-ak-en | Sister, when you go out from the marsh, you alone will do it. |
| 5' | id₂ kur-ra-ke₄ a nu-un-de₂ a-bi nu-mu-e-si-ke₄ | The river of the netherworld does not pour water, its water does not cool. |
| 6' | a-šag₄ kur-ra-ke₄ še nu-mu₂-⸢x⸣ zid₂-bi na-ma-ar₃-re | The field of the netherworld does not grow barley, its flour is to be heaped up. |
| 7' | udu kur-ra-ke₄ siki nu-un-la₂ tug₂-bi na-ma-tuku₅-tuku₅ | The sheep of the netherworld did not weave wool, so that they did not tie their garments. |
| 8' | i₃-ak-en šeš-ŋu₁₀ i₃-ak-en mah-bi-eš₂ i₃-ak-en | I will do it, I will make it abundant, I shall make it supreme |
| 9' | ŋuruš {d}da-mu-ŋu₁₀ i₃-ak-en mah-bi-eš₂ i₃-ak-en | I am the lamb of Damu-bu, I am their supreme one |
| 10' | immen₂ ba-e-te a ra-an-de₂-en mah-bi-eš₂ i₃-ak-en | You have poured water, you have done great things. |
| 11' | šag₄ e-su₃ ninda mu-e-ni-gu₇ mah-bi-eš₂ i₃-ak-en | You are the one who eats great bread in the open country. |
| 12' | nin₉ gu₂ id₂-da i₃-ŋen-na-ta ki-ba ba-da-gur | After the sister turned away from the bank of the river, |
| 13' | {ŋeš}ig kur-ra gu₃ ba-de₂-e ki-ba ba-⸢da-gur⸣ | The door of the netherworld shouted, it was turned away. |
| 14' | {ŋeš}ig kur-ra šu ba-an-da-us₂ ki-⸢ba⸣ [ba]-⸢da⸣-gur | The door of the netherworld was opened, it was turned back to its place |
| r | ||
| 1 | nin₉-e {ŋeš}ig kur-ra šu ba-da-an-us₂ ki-ba ba-da-gur | The sister seized the door of the netherworld, she turned her back to its place |
| 2 | ŋuruš-e šag₄ na-aŋ₂-tar-ra-ka er₂ im-ma-ni-in-pad₃ | The young man wept in the womb of fate |
| 3 | {d}da-mu-ŋu₁₀ šag₄ na-aŋ₂-tar-ra-ka er₂ im-ma-ni-in-pad₃ | Damubu wept in the midst of the fates. |
| 4 | a₂-še nam-tar-ra-ka na-nam ama-ŋu₁₀ mu-da-gur | The power of Namtar is indeed the mother-in-law. |
| 5 | ama-ŋu₁₀ mu-da-gur nin₉ mu-da-gur ama-ŋu₁₀ mu-da-gur | The mother turned away, the sister turned away - the mother turned her away. |
| 6 | ki-ba mu-lu kur₂-ra mu-da-an-gur ama-[ŋu₁₀] mu-da-gur | At that place a stranger turned away, a mother turned away. |
| 7 | kal-la id₂ kur-ra mu-da-an-gur ama-ŋu₁₀ mu-da-gur | The mighty one turned away from the river of the netherworld, the mother turned away. |
| 8 | zu-a mu-lu kur₂-ra mu-da-an-gur ama-ŋu₁₀ mu-da-gur | He turned away the one who knows him, he turned away his mother. |
| 9 | e-ne ba-dug₄-dug₄ e-ne ba-dug₄-dug₄ ka-ŋu₁₀ nu-uš-bi₂-dug₄ | He was speaking, he was speaking. He did not speak to me |
| 10 | ma ŋi₆-par₃-ra e-ne ba-dug₄-dug₄ ka-ŋu₁₀ nu-uš-bi₂-dug₄ | The “house of the Ipar, how is it that you have been treated so badly? You have not been treated as if you had been treated. |
| 11 | me-er-me-er-ra eden-na nu-uš-ib₂-sud da-la₂-e nu-uš-ši-in-sur | The mermaid does not stand in the steppe, she does not extend her wings |
| 12 | ama-ŋu₁₀ niŋ₂ lu-lu-a-bi-ta ga-⸢nam x⸣ [x]-⸢ra⸣-an-šum₂ | I want to utter an arazu prayer to his mother |
| 13 | [... lu]-⸢lu⸣-bi-ta ⸢x⸣ [x x]-ra-an-šum₂ | ... by means of its elû-priesthood ... |
| 14 | [... la₂]-⸢la₂⸣-bi-ta [x x x]-ra-an-šum₂ | If he slips through the cracks of the door, |
| 15 | [...]-⸢bi-ta⸣ [...]-⸢šum₂⸣ | ... ... to you ... |
Sources & licences
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