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CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 031 (P356642)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356642 |
| Museum no. | IM 058437 |
| 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 i | ||
| 1 | dumu e₂-dub-ba-a u₄ ul-la ⸢ŋa₂-nu⸣ [x]-;-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣-[x] | son of the scribal school, in those distant days, the emanu-house |
| 2 | ⸢niŋ₂ um⸣-mi-⸢a⸣-ŋu₁₀ mu-un-pa₃-⸢de₃ ; ze₄⸣-e ga-ri-pa₃-⸢pa₃⸣ | (Sum) He searches for her, he finds her (Akk) She seeks her, she seeks me, I seek you |
| 3 | [x]-⸢e⸣-gen₇-⸢nam⸣ nam-lu₂-tur i₃-⸢AK ses-gal⸣ tuku-⸢a⸣ | “You are the ... of humanity, you are the great hero, you have power. |
| 4 | ⸢um⸣-mi-⸢a⸣ lu₂-⸢ta kiŋ₂⸣-ŋa₂ ⸢a₂-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ ŋeš bi₂⸣-[...] | “If a man enters through a door, if he enters into a storehouse, he will ... |
| 5 | ⸢ge⸣ al-⸢gu₄-ud⸣-gen₇ ⸢i₃-gu₄-ud-de₃-en ; kiŋ₂-ŋa₂ bi₂-in-si₃-ge-en⸣ | When you enter the temple, like a ox, when you enter it, you make the earth tremble. |
| 6 | [x x]-⸢mi⸣-a-⸢ŋu₁₀ nu-taka₄ niŋ₂ ni₂-ŋa₂ li-bi₂-AK⸣ | ... did not open ..., it was filled with fear and fear. |
| 7 | [...] ⸢a₂ ŋeš ŋar-ra-x ša₃-ga-ni i⸣-[...] | ... his heart |
| 8 | [x] ⸢sun₅-ne-na mu-da-ši-hul₂ x⸣ [...] | ... rejoiced over them, ... |
| 9 | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1′ | ⸢us₂ teš₂⸣-[...] | “At the foot of the mountain(?) |
| 2′ | nin me-ni-da ⸢me nu⸣-[...] | Lady, with her divine powers none were able to escape |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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