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CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 073 (P356427)

Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 073
ID	P356427
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 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	[...] inim# ga#-[...]	... I want to speak a word
2	[...] tu#-ud-en# [...]	... born by ...
3	[...]-un#-tu-[...]	... shook(?)
4	[x]-bil4#-ga-mes zi-an#-[...]	... true ...
5	[...] ma-an-pa3 [...]	... he chose me
6	[...]-un#-dab5 ki za nam#-[...]	... seized ..., do not ... the place of your choosing
7	[...]-ga-mes [...]	... ...
reverse
1	[x] x x en-[ki]-du10# [...]	... Enkidu ...
2	[...]-dab5-ba ki-[...]	... seized
3	[...] ur2# ama-na#-[...]	... in the lap of his mother
4	[x x] dim2-ma nu#-[x]	... does not ... a design
5	[x x] i3#-gu7-e [...]	... eats ...
6	[...] ki#-bi-sze3# [...]	... to its place
7	[...]-na-[...]	... ...

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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