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CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 036 (P356826)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000756, ex. 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356826 |
| Museum no. | IM 058684 |
| 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 | ⸢us₂⸣ [...]-⸢ra-ke₄⸣-[...] ; [x] ⸢hu-mu-un⸣-[...] | (Sum) I want to utter an arazu prayer to you(?) (Akk) The eušû prayer of the ešakku prayer of my father |
| 2 | [...] ⸢šu nam-sa₆-ga he₂⸣-[...] ; ⸢uŋ₃-e u₆ he₂-ri⸣-[...] | ... may he be adorned with splendor, may the ešēdu-temple be full of splendor |
| 3 | [x]-⸢de₃⸣ a-na-⸢am₃ DU-zu⸣ diri ⸢he₂⸣-[...] ; gun₂{⸢un⸣}bi ha-⸢ra-ab⸣-[...] | (Sum) ..., why do you go up? (Akk) Why do you come up? Exceedingly, may you rise up(?) |
| 4 | ⸢tur-ra-ŋu₁₀-ta he₂-em-ma⸣-[...] ; ⸢a⸣-ra₂-⸢ŋu₁₀ igi⸣ [...] | “May he look at you from afar, may he see you |
| 5 | ⸢ku₃ sa₆-ga-gen₇ gurum₂⸣ [...] ; {⸢ki}kišer⸣ [...] | Like a beautiful temple, the inspections of E-kisver-e-23 |
| 6 | [x (x)] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1′ | ⸢gub-bu x⸣ [...] | “Standing(?) ..., |
| 2′ | ki sa₆-ga-⸢bi sa₂⸣ [...] ; niŋ₂-⸢hulu⸣-[...] | (Sum) The place that makes the heart happy(?) ... (Akk) Its good place ... |
| 3′ | um-mi-a lu₂ [...] ; saŋ hu-⸢mu-x⸣-[...] | My mother, a man ... |
| 4′ | lu₂-tur ⸢enim⸣-ŋu₁₀-uš ⸢x⸣-[...] ; ša₃-ŋu₁₀ bi₂-⸢du₁₀⸣-[...] | (Sum) The young man screamed, the young man shouted(?) |
| 5′ | {⸢d⸣}nisaba dugud-de₃ um-⸢mi⸣-[x] ; šu-za i-ni-in-⸢ŋar⸣-[x] | In order to make heavy Nisaba tremble(?) in your hand |
| 6′ | {⸢m}da-an⸣-[...] | Dān-e... |
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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