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CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 053 (P356846)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000771, ex. 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P356846 |
| Museum no. | OIM A30300 |
| Collection | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 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’? | ⸢u₄⸣-[...] | “When(?) |
| 2’? | [...] | |
| 3’? | [...] | |
| 4’ | [...] ⸢nu⸣-ŋa₂-[...] | ... the enû-priest |
| 5’ | ⸢dam-zu⸣ tu₉ nu-[...] | Your dam is not clothed with clothing |
| 6’a | gu-<du>-zu am₃-ta-[...] | Your throne ... |
| 6’b? | [...] | |
| 7’ | kaš sa₁₀-sa₁₀ aŋ₂-⸢šeŋ₆⸣-[...] | The price of beer is paid in full |
| 8’ | [u₃ ze₄]-⸢e⸣ [...] | and Ze’ee |
| r | ||
| 1’ | [...] ⸢in⸣-ar₃-[...] | ... e’ar-plant |
| 2’ | [i-ni]-⸢in⸣-du₃ [...] | he built for him |
| 3’a | ⸢aŋ₂⸣ šu du₁₁-ga-⸢ni⸣ [...] ; | “If he slips through the cracks of the door, |
| 3’b | ma-ni-ib-⸢gi₄⸣-[...] | I will send back to you |
| 4’ | ki-še-er nu-un-tuku [...] | He who has no rival |
| 5’ | siki nu-⸢un-da-peš₆⸣ [...] ; {ŋeš}bala nu-un-⸢da⸣-[...] | She does not weave wool, she does not recite the incantation |
| 6’-7’ | kiŋ₂-e šu nu-[...] // ku₄-ku₄ e₃-⸢de₃⸣ [...] | The place where one does not ... hands/hands(?) |
| 8’ | e-sir₂-ra [...] | The street ... |
| 9’ | ⸢ka⸣-[...] | In(?) the house(?) |
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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