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IM 058518 (P356731)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | IM 058518 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356731 |
| Museum no. | IM 058518 |
| 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 | ⸢um⸣-mi-a-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ gu₂-ni nu-mu-e-da-an-⸢šub⸣ | “If he does not come out to me, I will not go out to him. |
| 2 | ⸢nam⸣-dub-sar-ra-še₃ ⸢usu⸣-ni ma-an-⸢til (x) | He finished the scribal school for me. |
| 3 | ⸢za₃⸣ KA enim-ma ⸢nam⸣-dub-⸢sar⸣-ra tur-⸢ra⸣ | “Enama-edub-esar-e-ra |
| 4 | ⸢za₃⸣ nam-⸢ses⸣-gal e₂-dub-ba-a-še₃ na-me na-ma-ši-⸢in⸣-[x] | There was no ešāṣi-priestess in the scribal school, it was not there for me |
| 5 | ⸢niŋ₂⸣-ba-a-ni šum₂-⸢mu⸣-na-ab ⸢a⸣-ra₂ ha-⸢ra-šum₂⸣-[x] | May he say to you "raise his neck towards him" |
| 6 | ⸢šid(DUB) niŋ₂⸣ ka₉-de₃ ⸢šu⸣ he₂-em-mi-[x x] | “May he ... the ešid ni’e23 gate for me |
| 7 | ⸢KA⸣-enim-ma ⸢e₂⸣-dub-ba-a ⸢al⸣-[x x] | The E-enima, the E-dubâ, the al-e- |
| 8 | ⸢dumu⸣ <e₂>-⸢dub⸣-ba-a-⸢ke₄ ab-šid⸣-[...] | “The son of the scribal school was entrusted to him |
| 9 | ⸢dumu⸣ [...] | ... the son |
| r | ||
| 1’ | ⸢šu nam-sa₆⸣-[...] | He who makes good(?) |
| 2’ | u₄-me-e-⸢da⸣ [...] | “Days of the king’s reign |
| 3’ | a₂-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ ⸢e₂-dub-ba-a⸣ [...] ; ⸢lu₂⸣-tur ⸢umum⸣ [...] | “Alas, the edubâ-priest, ..., lu-etur, eumum-e23 |
| 4’a | {d}nanibgal{gal} ⸢nin ki umum-ma⸣ [x]-;-mah-a-ni bi₂-⸢du₁₁⸣ | Nanibgal, the queen, ... his great place |
| 4’b | {d}⸢nisaba⸣ [x x] | Enisaba |
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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