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ZA 97, 91 (P357155)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | ZA 97, 91 |
|---|---|
| ID | P357155 |
| Museum no. | OIM A03513 |
| Collection | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 1' 9 | When you have chosen Babylon, the place chosen by your heart, the dogs have grown there |
| obverse col 1 10' | The water that comes out from your city |
| obverse col 1 3' | he smote a song |
| obverse col 1 5' | city that is to be destroyed, city that is to be destroyed |
| reverse col 1' 10 | great An |
| obverse col 1 8' | in the steppe a man's field... |
| reverse col 1' 7 | House, house, house, house, true house |
| obverse col 1 1' | I will give you as a gift as a storm. |
| reverse col 1' 3 | What should we say about it? |
| obverse col 1 11' | to |
| reverse col 1' 5 | The ewe of my enemy, the ewe of my enemy |
| reverse col 1' 8 | ...... |
| obverse col 1 6' | ebony, ebony, |
| reverse col 1' 4 | The house is a cattlepen, its midst is a lament. |
| reverse col 1' 1 | he filled |
| obverse col 1 2' | scepter of lordship |
| reverse col 1' 11 | lord(?) |
| obverse col 1 7' | I want to... Dilmun in its entirety, I want to... your city |
| reverse col 1' 6 | I have given you the lands like storms. |
| obverse col 1 9' | The water of the sea, the city..., |
| obverse col 1 4' | the supreme lord of the divine powers shall satisfy |
| obverse col 1 12' | esoteric utterances,... grass |
| reverse col 1' 2 | ... true word |
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
- 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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