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CDLI Literary 002397, ex. 009 (P357117)
Literary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 002397, ex. 009 |
|---|---|
| ID | P357117 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| dub-sar dumu-a-ni [...] | The scribe, his son | |
| ⸢ṭup⸣-šar-ru ma-⸢ra⸣-[...] ⸢i-sa-niq⸣ | The scribal art is a place of learning for you | |
| [...] ⸢x⸣ [... e₂]-⸢dub-ba⸣-[...] | ... the scribal school | |
| [...] ⸢E₂⸣ ṭup-⸢pi⸣ | ... the temple, the tablet | |
| [...]-⸢tuku-tuku⸣-me-en | I am the one who possesses | |
| [...]-UD-man-ni | ...-UD-manni | |
| [...]-le-en | ... you | |
| [...] aš₂-bat | ... I have seized | |
| [... i₃]-zu | ... knows | |
| [... ti]-de | ... you will know. | |
| o | ||
| 6 | [...]-u₂ | ...-u |
| 7 | [... ti]-de | ... you will know. |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢x ŋeš⸣ nam-⸢ba⸣-[...] | ..., do not enter |
| 3' | [nam]-nir-ŋal₂ nam-ba-[...] | You should not carry it, you should not ... it |
| 4' | [...]-⸢e⸣ dim₄-dim₄-ma i-si-iš ba-⸢ra⸣-[...] | ... fashioned a statue of himself |
| 5' | na-an-dirig-dirig-gin₇-nam gu₂-MUR na-[...] | Do not keep wandering about like this, do not ... |
| 6' | KA-taka₄-še₃ ka-zu ⸢nam⸣-[...] | At your utterance, the enam-e-plant |
| 7' | na-zu kan₄-še₃ nu-mu-un-⸢gur⸣-[...] | Your fate has not been returned to the gate |
| 8' | nam-dub-sar-ra-še₃ tuš he₂-[... ṭup]-⸢šar⸣-ru-⸢ti⸣ [...] | May the scribal art be a dwelling place for you |
| 9' | ŋi₆ ud zal-e šag₄-zu he₂-[...] ⸢ur⸣-ra lib₃-⸢ba-ka⸣ [...] | May the day pass by and your heart be pacified towards the ur temple |
| nam-dub-sar ŋeš-šub-ba sag₁₀-[ga ... niŋ₂]-⸢šag₄⸣-hab e₂-gal-⸢la⸣-[ke₄] | The scribal art is a good thing. | |
| ṭup-šar-⸢ru⸣-tu₂ i-siq da-[... na]-mir-tu₂ hi-ših-ti E₂.⸢GAL⸣ | The scribal art was chosen by the god ..., the brightness, the splendor of the palace | |
| 11' | dub-sar dumu-a-ni [...] zag til-la-bi-še₃ | The scribe, his son |
| 12' | KUR {m}{d}[...] {kur}aš-šur{ki} | The land of ..., Assyria |
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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