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CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 018 (P356115)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356115 |
| 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’ | {[d]}⸢en⸣-[...] ⸢x⸣ [...] | E-en-e-[... ...] |
| 2’ | sibir₂ {d}⸢en⸣-lil₂-le ⸢mu⸣-[...] | The shepherd E-en-elil, the e-mu-e-lil |
| 3’ | mah {d}en-lil₂-le mu-⸢un⸣-[...] | The exalted one whom Enlil made surpassing |
| 4’ | {d}en-lil₂-le šu nu-⸢bara₃⸣ | Enlil did not release his hand |
| 5’ | {ŋeš}al zu₂ AŠ {bar}barim-še₃ ba-⸢an⸣-[x] | The hoe ... the teeth(?) |
| 6’ | me-de₃ en-te-en-ne buru₁₄-gen₇ [...] | How long will you be like a harvester? |
| 7’ | šu e₂-me-eš en-te-⸢en⸣-ge₂ mu-[...]-;-re-en-⸢de₃⸣-[x] | The hand of the en-priestess ... to you |
| r | ||
| 1 | {ŋeš}⸢al⸣-[x] ⸢a₂ la₂⸣ [...] | “If he slips through the door pivots, |
| 2 | {ŋeš}[...]-⸢na⸣ [...] | ...-emena-e23 |
| 3 | ⸢ŋuruš⸣ [...] ⸢lu₂⸣ [...] | The ešû-priest |
| 4 | ⸢u₄-bi-a u₄-de₃⸣ [...] | At that time, the storm |
| 5 | {⸢na₄}kinkin⸣ [...] | ... agate |
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)
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