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CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 020 (P356169)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000760, ex. 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356169 |
| 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 | e {ŋeš}al-e {ŋeš}al-e {ŋeš}al-e sa la₂-⸢e⸣ | “Ha! The hoe, the hoe! The Hoe! It is the knot of the knot! |
| 2 | {ŋeš}al-e {ŋeš}asar₂-e zu₂ {ŋeš}⸢ma-nu-e⸣ | The hoe, the asar, the teeth, the emanu, |
| 3 | {ŋeš}al {ŋeš}šeneg-e zu₂ ŋeš ab-[x x] | The hoe, the šeneg-demon, the tooth |
| y4 | {⸢ŋeš⸣}al-e zu₂ 2-e zu₂ 4-[x] | The hoe, the second, the fourth |
| 5 | [...] ⸢uku₂-e ša₃⸣ niŋ₂-⸢dara₂⸣ [...] | ... the eukû-priestess, the nidara priestess |
| 6 | [...] ⸢x x x x⸣ [...] | |
| 1’ | [...] ⸢dubsig⸣ [...] | ... edubsig plant |
| 2’ | [x] ⸢nu⸣-lu₃-e-⸢en⸣ [...] | ... the elu priestess |
| 3’ | [x] ⸢nu⸣-ŋa₂-ŋa₂-an e₂ ⸢nu⸣-[...] | ... the house of the enu-priestess |
| 4’ | [eŋar] ⸢šumun-e⸣ ur₂-⸢bi⸣ [...] | “The lord of the netherworld, the creator of the universe |
| 5’ | [...] ⸢zi⸣-da-ke₄ a ⸢nu⸣-[...] | The ... of the Ezida temple, the water of the Enu-temple |
| 6’ | [...] ⸢daŋal⸣-la si ⸢nu⸣-[...] | ... the edbal-plant, the nû-plant |
| 7’ | [...]-⸢gid₂-de₃⸣-en gid₂-⸢da⸣-[...] | I want to smite you(?) |
| 8’ | [...]-⸢be₂⸣-en lagab-⸢ba⸣-[...] | I am a lagab priestess |
| 9’ | [... {ŋeš]}al-e gu₃ ⸢am₃⸣-[...] | The hoe shouted at the hoe |
| 10’ | [...] ⸢gal-e⸣ [...] | ... the Egale |
| 11’ | [x]-⸢du₅⸣ mah {⸢d⸣}[en-...] | The supreme ... of Enlil |
| 12’ | [x] zi nam-lu₂-[...] | True ... of humanity |
| 13’ | [x]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ {iti}šu-nuŋun-a ⸢a⸣-[...] | ... of the month Vunû |
| 14’ | [x x] gud im-ma-ab-⸢gaz⸣ [...] | ... slaughtered oxen |
| 15’ | [...]-ra-am₃ [...] | ... is ... |
| 16’ | [...] ⸢a⸣-[...] | ... ea-e-[...] |
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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