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CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 047 (P356788)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356788 |
| Museum no. | IM 058601 |
| 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 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.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] la-ba#-[...] | ... did not ... |
| 2' | [x x] ga#-an-ku4 mu-[...] | I want to enter ... |
| 3' | [x x] gub#-bu-ba mu-gu10 [...] | ... stationed, my name |
| 4' | [...]-gub-bu-ba mu digir#-re-e-[x] ga-bi2-ib-[x] | ... I want to utter the name of the god |
| 5' | [x]-gu10 tukum#-bi# kur-a! i-ni-in-[...] {d}utu he2-me-da-an-[x] | My ..., if in the netherworld he ... Šamaš |
| 6' | {d}utu szul {d#}utu# he2-me-da-an-[x] | Šamaš, youth Utu may he ... with you |
| 7' | kur-ra dim2-ma-bi {d}utu | the creation of the foreign lands, Utu |
| 8' | kur#-{gisz}eren-ku5 dim2-ma-bi szul {d#}[x-x] {d}utu he2-me-da-[x x] | May Šamaš and Utu ... the youth of the cedar forest |
| 9' | {d}bil3#-[x]-mes-e masz2 babbar2-[x] szu im-mi-in-[x] | Gilgamesh ... the white kid |
| 10' | masz2-su4 [...] | his kid ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | szu-ni gidri-ku3 [...] | His hand is a scepter |
| 2 | {d}utu an-ra [...] | Šamaš of heaven |
| 3 | {d}utu kur-sze3# [...] | Utu, to the netherworld |
| 4 | kur#-[...] x NI-in#-[...] a2-dah-gu10# [...] | ... my helper(?) |
| 5 | {d}utu an-ta inim# [...] | Utu, from heaven ... words |
| 6 | gurusz dumu-gi7 ni2#-za3-a# he2-me-[...] | May you be the young man, the slain child |
| 7 | {d}utu inim ga-ra#-ab#-du11# inim-gu10-sze3 gesztu2#-[x] | Utu, I want to speak a word to you, listen to my word |
| 8 | silim ga-ra-ab-du11 gizzal# he2-em-szi-[x] | I want to speak good things to you, may a reed basket be ... for you |
| 9 | iri{ki}-ga2 lu2 ba-usz2 sza3 [x x] | In my city a man was killed, the heart ... |
| 10 | lu2 u2-gu ba#-an-de2# sza3#-[x] | The one who ... ... the heart |
| 11 | bad3#-da [...] | The wall |
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
- 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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