CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 060 (P356702)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000761, ex. 060 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356702 |
| Museum no. | IM 058493 |
| 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’ | ⸢sipa-zu niŋ₂⸣-[...] | Your shepherd should not ... |
| 2’ | isina{na} ⸢a-ša₃⸣-[...] | Isina |
| 3’ | engar-ŋu₁₀ na-gada-za {ŋeš}[tukul-...] | The farmer, your nagdada weapon |
| 4’ | ki-ta ki si-ga-aš ⸢u₃⸣-[...] | From the ground to the stable ground |
| 5’ | ZA-ra ni₂-zu nu-mu-⸢un⸣-[...] | ... does not fear you |
| 6’ | muš ŋiri₂ lu₂ la-ga niŋ₂ [...] | (Sum) The snake ... a lament (Akk) The serpent ... the lament of a man |
| 7’ | zi-zu an-edin-na ku-[...] | Your life in the high steppe ... |
| 8’ | u₄ šu₂-uš nig₂-ka₉-zu [...] | When the hand of your account |
| 9’ | ŋeš šudum-ma-zu ki [...] | Your son, the place |
| 10’ | na-gada-zu u₈ me-⸢a⸣ [...] | Your nagda priestess, the ewe, the me-ea-e-shrine |
| 11’ | ⸢ud₅ me-a maš₂ (TUR.TUR⸣) [...] | The nanny goat, where is the kid? |
| r | ||
| 1’ | ⸢tumu tur⸣-[...] | The small etumu-plant |
| 2’ | tumu ⸢tur-tur⸣-[...] | The wind(?) of the small turtur temple |
| 3’ | {d}iškur-⸢ra⸣ [...] | Iškur-era’e |
| 4’ | {d}ezinam₂ ⸢ur⸣-[...] ; ŋa₂-[...] | Ištar of the Eur temple |
| 5 | {⸢dug⸣}šakir₃ ⸢giri₁₆⸣ [...] niŋ₂-gur₁₁-⸢ra⸣ [...] | The šakir plant, the egiri plant, ... the nigur plant |
| 6’ | a-na-zu mu-da-ŋal₂ ⸢a⸣-[...] ; [...] | What have you done to me? |
| 7’ | min₃-kam-ma-⸢še₃⸣ [...] ; ⸢x⸣ [...] | Second eše3-song |
| 8’ | ⸢ZA x x⸣ [...] | The ... of the temple |
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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