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CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 035 (P356799)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 035 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356799 |
| Museum no. | IM 058608 |
| 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)
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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 | ⸢dumu⸣ e₂-dub-ba-a ⸢u₄ ul⸣-la-⸢am₃⸣ ; ŋa₂-nu ki-ŋu₁₀-še₃ | The first-born son of the scribal school, the second-born child of the place of learning |
| 2 | niŋ₂ um-mi-a-ŋu₁₀ mu-un-⸢pa₃-da⸣ ; ze₄-e ga-⸢ra⸣-pa₃-⸢pa₃⸣ | I want to utter an arazu prayer to my mother |
| 3 | ze₄-e-gen₇-⸢nam nam⸣-lu₂-tur i₃-⸢AK ; ses-gal⸣ i₃-tuku-am₃ | Like you, he made the young man enter, and he had the great hero in him. |
| 4 | ⸢um⸣-mi-a lu₂-⸢ta⸣ kiŋ₂-ŋa₂-⸢am₃⸣ ; a₂-⸢aŋ₂⸣-ŋa₂ ŋeš bi₂-⸢in⸣-[x] | “If a man enters through a hole, if he slips through the cracks, |
| 5 | ⸢ge al-gu₄⸣-[x]-⸢da-gen₇⸣ i₃-gu₄-ud-[...] ; [...]-⸢in-si₃-ge-en⸣ | When you go up to the temple like a bull, when you go down ... |
| r | ||
| 1′ | [...] bar dib(SU) ib₂-⸢ba⸣-[x] | ... passings ... |
| 2′ | [...]-⸢ŋu₁₀⸣ si ba-ni-⸢in⸣-[x] ; ⸢us₂⸣ zi mu-⸢un⸣-[x] | ... he made it shine like the sun. He made it rise like the true sun. |
| 3′ | [...]-ma ŋal₂ ba-ni-⸢in⸣-[x] ; ⸢ad⸣-ge₄-ge₄ ⸢ma⸣-[...] | (Sum) ..., he ... the adze temple(?) (Akk) The ... temple(?), the “house of the father’s ...(?) |
| 4′ | [...] a₂-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ si-⸢sa₂⸣-[x] ; igi ma-ni-in-si-[x] | ... he looked at me with a ... eye. |
| 5′ | [x] ⸢zi⸣-zi ha-la a₂-aŋ₂-⸢ŋa₂⸣-[x] ; u₄-zal-le niŋ₂-ge₁₇-⸢ga⸣ [x] | ... ezi-ezi, the share of the slave-girls, during the day, in fear |
| 6′ | ⸢lu₂⸣ ki aŋ₂-ŋa₂-ni-še₃ u₄-⸢zal⸣-[x] ; ⸢a₂-aŋ₂⸣-ŋa₂-ni [x x] | The elû-priest, at the place of his birth day, his birth year |
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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