CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 020 (P356174)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356174 |
| 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 | [...]-⸢ub⸣ lu₂-tumu dim₂-ma {ugu}⸢ugu₄-bi⸣ | (Sum) ..., a human being, whose face is like a ghost (Akk) The ... of a dead man, the image of the dead man |
| 2 | [...] ⸢e⸣-sir₂-ra nu₂-⸢nu₂⸣ | ... lying down in the street |
| 3 | [...]-⸢na⸣ nam-lu₂-lu₇-ka zi₃-⸢munu₄⸣ ; [...]-ni-bara₃-bara₃ | ... of humanity ... flour ... |
| 4 | [...]-⸢ar⸣-za-na {im}šu-rin-na-⸢ta⸣ ; e₁₁-⸢da⸣-[...] | ...-earzāna, Šurinna-etae |
| 5 | [...]-⸢de₃⸣-gaz tu₇ ⸢al⸣-[...] | ... will be destroyed, soup will be poured |
| 6 | [...]-⸢zu⸣ kuš-a [...] | ... in a leather bag |
| 7 | [...]-⸢ta⸣ [...] | ...-etae |
| r | ||
| 1′ | [...] ⸢ka-bi⸣ [...] | ... its gate ... |
| 2′ | [...]-ni-še₃ IŠ ⸢kalam⸣-[...] | ... his ... Ekalame- |
| 3′ | [...] ⸢in⸣ nu-zu-a-ŋu₁₀ [...] | ... the one who does not know the e’in temple |
| 4′ | [...]-⸢uš⸣ na-an-⸢x⸣-[...] ; ⸢x⸣ DU šu in-zu [...] | (Sum) ... does not ... (Akk) The ... of the king, my lord, does not go out |
| 5′ | [...] ; [...] | ... ... |
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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