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CDLI Literary 000347, ex. 065 (P356435)

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

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000347, ex. 065
ID	P356435
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	[dumu] nig2#-ku7#-[ku7-da] [...]	son of Nig-kuda
2	[sum{sar}]-e# nig2-szesz-e# zu2 [...]	The šūmu of the brotherhood
3	[lu2] ku6# nu-gu7#-me-esz lu2 [ga-ras{sar} nu-gu7-me-esz]	They are people who do not eat fish, they are people of ...
4	[lugal]-ra# [dumu]-adab#{ki}-a# [...]	For the king of Dumuzi
reverse
1	szu#-ni# {gisz#}banszur#-[ra eme-ni e2-gal-la]	His hand is the table, his tongue is the palace
2	lugal-ra dumu-akszak{ki#} min#-am3# [...]	For the king, Dumuakšak was the second
3	[{gisz}]tukul#-sag-ku5-da ur2-ra la2-[a]	with a “weapon-of-a-thousand' weapon in the base
4	[lugal]-ra uri2{ki} min-am3 [...]	For the king of Ur, two
5	[tug2]-szen-na kar-ra [gal2-la]	garments in the quay,
6	[lugal-ra] dumu#?-nibru{ki#} [...]	For the king, the citizens of Nippur

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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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