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CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058 (P356707)

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

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DesignationCDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058
IDP356707
Museum no.IM 058497
CollectionNational Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreLiterary
Find spotNippur (mod. Nuffar)
Coordinates32.1271, 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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
obverse
2[x x]-sze3!(KU) bi2-in-gar# [...]... placed ...
3[x] ama ugu-gu10 AN#-[...]-a#-gu10 kug {d}lugal#-[x x]My ..., my birth mother, my ... holy Lugal
4[x]-ub# ama ugu-<gu10> {d}nin-sun2-ka u3-di-de3 ha#-ba#-[x x]... my birth mother, Ninsun, may it be ... to go around
5[x x]-ma-sze3 in NA ga-nam-mu-na-ab-be2I want to say to him ...
6zi# ama AMA-ugu-<gu10> {d}nin-sun2-ka [x x]-gu10 ku3 {d}lugal-ban3-daThe life of my mother, my mother Ninsun My ... with the silver of Lugalbanda
7[...]-u18#-lu he2-a im-zu he2#-a# dingir he2-a#-[x x]... whether it is a man or a woman, may it be a god
reverse
1giri3# SZE3 kur-sze3 gub-ba-gu10 iri{ki}-sze3 ba-ra-gub-be2-en#My one who stands at the foot of the mountain, I will not stand at the city
2ARAD2# zi an-du10 nam-ti ba-an-ku7!(USZ)-ku7The loyal servant(?) of An, he made the life sweet
3lugal#-a-ni-ir inim mu-ni-ib-gi4-gi4he will reply to his king.
4[x]-gu10 za-e lu2-ba nu-mu#-ni-du8-a sza3 nu-mu-ni-in-dab5#-TE-am3My ..., you are the one who did not release that man, he did not seize him
5[x]-e lu2-ba igi i-ni-du8-a sza3 mu-[x x]-in-dab5-baThe ... of that man looked at him, he seized him.

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