CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 055 (P356618)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 055 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356618 |
| Museum no. | IM 050846 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 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’ | ⸢tu₉⸣ [x x]-⸢mu₄-bi⸣ [...] | The ešūtu’s |
| 2’ | {d}uttu nu-ub-[...] | Uttu did not |
| 3’ | {d}en {d}⸢niŋir⸣-si [...] | Enlil, Enibira |
| 4’ | {d}šagan₂ {bar}barim-⸢ma⸣ [...] | Šagan, barium-ema’e |
| 5’ | nam-lu₂-⸢lu₇{lu⸣} u₄-[...] | Humanity, the storm |
| 6’ | inda₃ gu₇-u₃-bi nu-⸢mu⸣-[...] | The food that I ate I did not eat |
| 7’ | tu₉-ga mu₄-mu₄-bi nu-mu-⸢un⸣-[...] | The innards of the morning did not ... its morning |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ug₃ ŋeš⸣-ge-na-a su-bi mu-⸢un⸣-[...] | The people of the four quarters of the world ... their body |
| 2 | udu-gen₇ ka-ba u₂ mu-ni-⸢ib-gu₇⸣ | Like a sheep, he eats grass in its mouth. |
| 3 | a sar-sar-ra-ka i-im-⸢na₈⸣-[...] | In the water of the garden he drank |
| 4 | u₄-ba ki ulutim₂ diŋir-re-[...] | At that time, the place of the ancient cult centers |
| 5 | e₂-bi du₆-ku₃-ga u₈-e {⸢d⸣}[...] | This temple of the Holy Mound, the ewe |
| 6 | eš₃ niŋ₂-gu₇ diŋir-re-⸢e⸣-[...] | The shrine that eats no food |
| 7 | {[d]}⸢a-nun-na du₆⸣-[...] | The Anuna gods of the Du'e |
| 8 | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
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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