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CDLI Literary 000582, ex. 006 (P356273)

Literary letter and letter-prayer, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000582, ex. 006
ID	P356273
Museum no.	Penn —
Collection	Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary letter and letter-prayer
Find spot	Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates	32.1271, 45.2300

Transliteration (ATF)

From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)

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)
obverse
1	[nin sza3]-ne-sza4 lu2 ti-ti	the lady of supplication, the man of life
2	szud3-[de3 ki-ag2-ra]	beloved prayer
3	sza3 gur-ru [sza3-la2] SUD a-ra-zu-e gisz tuku-[mu-ur2]	You pound šuru-juniper, sahlû-conifer, arazu-plant, tukumur-wood
4	[u3]-na-de3-[tah]	he will add.
5	[ti-la] ug5#?-ga en3 [tar-bi za-e-me-en]	You are the one who inquires after the life of the dead
6	[lu2-ku5]-x-x-ba [du7-du7 gal-bi-me-en]	I am a great ...
7	[x x x]
8	[geme2-zu] na-ab-[be2-a]	do not say "your slave woman"
9	[ki-nu2] szub-ba-mu#-[da 2(disz)-kam-ma-bi]	Its 2nd bedchamber
10	[u2-u8-a-u8]-a# al-[gen-na-mu a-ra2-bi nu-zu]	When I go, I do not know its way
11	[nin-mu] e2 [ma-an-du3-ma igi la2-bi ba-tusz-en]	My mistress built a house for me and I sat before her.

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

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