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IM 058605 (P356793)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | IM 058605 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356793 |
| Museum no. | IM 058605 |
| 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 x x]-⸢a-še₃ i₃⸣-[...] | ... he will ... |
| 2’ | [x]-⸢dub-ba⸣-a a-na-⸢am₃⸣ [x x] | What is the ... of the scribal art? |
| 3’ | ⸢dub-ŋu₁₀ i₃-šid⸣ niŋ₂-⸢zu₂⸣-[...] | (Sum) The scribal art was made perfect for you(?) (Akk) It was created for you, it was perfected for you |
| 4’ | ⸢dub⸣-ŋu₁₀ ⸢i₃-dim₂⸣ i₃-⸢sar⸣ [...] | The scribal school, the idim school, and the sar school |
| 5’ | ⸢mu⸣-gub-⸢ba⸣-ŋu₁₀ ⸢ma⸣-[...] | “If he sits down, if he ..., |
| 6’ | ⸢kiŋ₂-sig-gen₇ im⸣-[x x] ; ma-an-⸢gub⸣-[x x] | Like a brickwork of E-sig, he stood up for me |
| 7’ | ⸢u₄ e₂-dub⸣-ba-a ⸢tuh⸣-[x x] ; ⸢e₂-še₃⸣ i₃-⸢ŋen⸣-[x x] | When he enters the scribal school, he will enter the eše-house. |
| 8’ | ⸢e₂⸣-a i-ni-in-⸢ku₄⸣-[x x] ; ⸢ad⸣-da-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ [x x] | he entered the temple |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ad-da im-šu⸣-[x] ; ⸢gu₃⸣ in-na-⸢ra⸣-[x] | The father ..., he ... the temple for you |
| 2 | dub-ŋu₁₀ ⸢in-na-šid ad⸣-[...] | I have strewn a tablet for him, |
| 3 | igi ⸢ad-da⸣-ŋa₂-⸢še₃ i₃-gub-bu⸣-[x] | before Adda-eba’eš stood |
| 4 | ⸢emmen₂⸣ a-tuku ⸢a naŋ-mu-ub⸣-[x x] | “If he has a bathing place, he should not ... bathe. |
| 5 | ⸢šaŋar a-tuku inda₃ šum₂⸣-ma-⸢ab-x⸣-[x] | “If he has food, he should eat bread |
| 6 | [...] ⸢luh-ha⸣-ab-⸢ze₂⸣-[...] ; [...]-⸢ma⸣-ab-⸢ze₂⸣-[...] | ... eluḫhâ-plant |
| 7 | [x x]-⸢zi-ga⸣-[x] ; ⸢zi-mu⸣-[x x x] | ...-eziga-e-x, ezimu-x ... |
| 8 | [...]-⸢zal-en⸣ [...] ; ⸢mu-duda⸣-[...] | I want to utter an arazu prayer to you |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | [(...)] (x) x-dub-ba-a⸣ ; [(...)] ⸢x DUB⸣ | ... -dubbâ |
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)
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