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IM 058498 (P356708)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | IM 058498 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356708 |
| Museum no. | IM 058498 |
| 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’ | [x] ⸢a-tuku a šum₂⸣-[...] | ... the one who has ... water |
| 2’ | ⸢ŋiri₃⸣-ŋu₁₀ luh-ha-ab-⸢ze₂⸣-[...] | “If he slips through the door pivots, |
| 3’ | ⸢a₂⸣-gu₂-zi-ga-⸢ta⸣ [...] | “(If) he slips in through a window, |
| 4’ | u₄ ⸢na⸣-ab um-mi-a-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [...] | When he enters, Ummi-ā-e23 |
| 5’ | ⸢a₂⸣-gu₂-zi-ga-⸢ta⸣ [...] | “(If) he slips in through a window, |
| 6’ | ⸢ama⸣-ŋu₁₀ igi-ni in-⸢na⸣-[x x] | “If a mother sees him, he will ... |
| 7’ | niŋ₂-⸢zu₂⸣-ŋu₁₀ šum₂-ma-ab ⸢e₂-dub⸣-[...] | You are adjured by the scribal school |
| 8’ | ⸢ama⸣-ŋu₁₀ inda₃ min-am₃ niŋ₂ gu₇(KA-)⸢ta⸣ [...] | “If he eats two-thirds of a mother’s bread, |
| 9’ | ama-ŋu₁₀ inda₃ min-am₃ ma-an-⸢šum₂-ma⸣-[...] | The mother ... two loaves of bread |
| 10’–11’ | ⸢e₂⸣-dub-ba-a lu₂-bala-ab ⸢a⸣-[...] // ni₂ ba-te ša₃-ŋu₁₀ ba-⸢dar⸣ | The scribal school, the balaŋ priestess, he approached the šabû temple |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢igi um-mi⸣-[...] ; ⸢x⸣ [...] | (Sum) The eye of the lord ... (Akk) The eyes of the mother ... |
| 2 | ⸢ad⸣-[... ; ...] | Ead-E-[...] |
| 3 | ⸢mu im-ta⸣ ku₅-ra₂-⸢aš⸣ [...] | “My house has been plundered, I have been cut down(?) |
| 4 | ⸢niŋ₂-zu₂ ugula u₃⸣-bi₂-in-⸢eš⸣ [...] | Enizu, foreman of U’ebi-eš-e23 |
| 5 | ⸢um-mi-a⸣ a₂-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ e₂-⸢dub⸣-[...] | “As for me, the strength of the Edubbub temple |
| 6 | ⸢lu₂ ta₃-ta₃-ge⸣-da-⸢ke₄⸣ [...] | “If a man is to go out, he should not go out |
| 7 | ⸢lu₂-pa-mušen-na⸣-ke₄ a-na-še-[...] | Lu-pāmušena |
| 8 | ⸢ad-da e₂⸣-dub-ba-⸢a-ŋu₁₀⸣ [...] | The father of the scribal school |
| 9 | ⸢lu₂ kisal⸣-la₂-⸢ke₄ sar-ra⸣-[...] | The lord of the courtyard, the scribal art |
| 10 | ⸢dub-ŋu₁₀ šu⸣ ba-ti ⸢ŋeš x⸣ [...] | The scribal art is taken away |
| 11 | [...] ⸢ab-sar-re⸣-[...] | ... the scribal school |
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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