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CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 022 (P356223)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356223 |
| 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′ | SU-bi [...] | Its ... |
| 2′ | a-ša₃ ha-[...] | field Ḫa- |
| 3′ | tu₉ ba-da-an-⸢til⸣ [...] | ... finished the garment |
| 4′ | i₃ {dug}silim₂-⸢ma ba⸣-[...] ; ⸢ir₂-ba⸣ [...] | He poured oil in a silma-vessel |
| 5′ | ⸢gud₃ uman-na kiŋ₂ ba⸣-[...] | The human ox ... the earth |
| 6′ | {⸢tu₉}niŋ₂-dara₂ a⸣-NI-gen₇ ⸢ba⸣-[...] | Like a e’u2019tuda tree, like a cedar tree, |
| 7′ | [...]-⸢bi⸣-ta nu-mu-e-⸢da⸣-[...] | ... did not come out from its ... |
| 8′ | [...] ⸢egir⸣-ra-ka mu-da-ab-sa₂-[...] | In the ... of the steppe he set it up for me |
| 9′ | [...] (⸢BI.U₂⸣.[SA) ...] | ... ebītu-plant |
| r | ||
| 1′ | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] ; ki-bi ⸢x⸣ [...] | ... ... its place ... |
| 2′ | [niŋ₂-zi]-⸢ŋal₂⸣ edin-na za₃ [...] | ... in the steppe ... |
| 3′ | ⸢x x x (x)-zu [...] | Your ... |
| 4′ | ⸢eme-gi₇-še₃ eme-zu⸣ [...] | The emegi priestess, your tongue |
| 5′ | ⸢a-ra₂ he₂-šid⸣ [...] | “May he bring forth ... for you |
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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