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CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 018 (P356090)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356090 |
| Museum no. | Penn — |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1′ | ⸢gu₂-zu⸣ [...] | Your throne |
| 2′ | ni₂-zu [...]-⸢a a-ra⸣-[...] | Your fearsomeness ... prayer |
| 3′ | niŋ₂ gu₇-⸢u₃-ta⸣ šu pa₄(ḪAL-)hal-⸢la⸣ [...] | Hand of Paḫalaela |
| 4′ | e₂-me-⸢eš-ka⸣ ŋessu (NIGIN₂.[...]) | Eme’eška temple |
| 5′ | u₄ se₂₉-⸢da⸣-ka gaba u₄-da (⸢NIGIN₂.NIGIN₂⸣) | On the day of the šēdu-da’eka, on the side of the day |
| 6′ | ⸢lu₂-tumu saŋ⸣ gu₂ ⸢NE-ka nu₂-nu₂⸣ | (Sum) The elutumu-demon lies down on the bank of the enemu-tree (Akk) The human being lies down in the bank |
| 7′ | ⸢bala⸣-[...]-⸢ne ; a₂-šu-ŋiri₃-x⸣ kuš-a ab-⸢zil⸣-zil | The bala priests, the ašu-biri priests and the ezil priests |
| 8′ | e₂ buru₃-buru₃ šaha₂ zuh-⸢zuh⸣ | The buruburu house, the šaḫa house, |
| 9′ | a-na-aš ga-ba-al mu-du₃-⸢du₃⸣-e | Why do you ponder it? |
| r | ||
| 1 | in mu-e-tub₂-ba-ŋu₁₀ su-ŋu₁₀ nu-ŋal₂ | (Sum) The one who screams, he does not carry it off (Akk) When he shouts it off, it is not carried off |
| 2 | ŋa₂-nu e-sir₂-še₃ e₃-mu-da | When he came forth from the steppe |
| 3 | lu₂ ⸢zu-ne⸣ igi he₂-mu-e-du₈-uš-⸢am₃⸣ | “May the one who sees you be seen! |
| 4 | na-[... ...]-⸢zu nu-zu⸣ | ... does not know your ... |
| 5 | lu₂ ⸢sikil-du₃⸣-[a]-⸢me-en⸣ niŋ₂-nam-e nu-zu | You are a man who does not know himself. |
| 6 | is-hab₂ di-⸢da⸣ [...]-(TAKA₄.TAKA₄-)me-en | I am the one who destroys the temples of the gods |
| 7 | lu₂ saŋ ge₄-⸢a enim⸣-ma la-ba-an-tuš{uš}⸢am₃⸣ | The one who is enraged, he does not sit down. |
| 8 | lu₂ gu₃ ra-⸢ah ša₃⸣ NE-ka nu₂-[...] | The one who shouts, the ... heart lies down |
| 9 | lu₂ ša₃-ŋar-[x] ⸢inda₃⸣ kar-kar-⸢re⸣ | The one who ... the šabar plant, the karkar plant |
| 10 | lu₂ ⸢dab₅⸣-[...] ⸢bešeŋ⸣ e₂ diŋir-re-[...] ; [...]-⸢mu-un-na⸣-[...] | The one who seized it, the eše-priestess, the house of the intertwined family |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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