AuOr 01, 053 (P355690)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | AuOr 01, 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P355690 |
| Museum no. | OIM A29965 |
| Collection | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur (mod. Nuffar) |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
English translation
By Civil, Miguel · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | You take time off from your shepherdship and approach the granaries. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Me, the mugib priestess, I want to go to the desert, |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | I want to say something, my man |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | I want to go to the desert! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | The man, o! .... |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | What did the shepherd do? |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | What did the shepherd do? |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | What did the shepherd Dumuzi do? |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | What did the luxuriant one do? |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | ⸢na⸣-aŋ₂-sipad-zu u₄ du₈ dab₅-ba-e gur₇-du₆-de₃ ba-te | |
| 2' | mu-gib₃-e eden-bi-še₃ ga-ŋen | |
| 3' | aŋ₂ mu-lu-ŋu₁₀ ga-am₃-dug₄ | |
| 4' | eden-bi-še₃ ga-ŋen a KA | |
| 5' | [...]-ke₄ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢mu⸣-lu u₈-⸢a x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | su₈-ba-de₃ ta an-ak | |
| 3' | su₈-ba-de₃ ta an-ak | |
| 4' | su₈-ba {d}dumu-zi-de₃ ta an-ak | |
| 5' | i-lum i-lam-e ta an-ak | |
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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