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JCS 39, 046 (P357172)

Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	JCS 39, 046
ID	P357172
Museum no.	BM 029632
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Sumerian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary
Find spot	Sippar
Coordinates	33.0592, 44.2538

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)
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1	e₂-saŋ ki-tuš-ba mi-ni-ib-⸢dar⸣-[dar]	he destroyed the Esa temple, its dwelling
2	erim₃-ma kaskal-la-še₃ mu-un-⸢mar⸣	He made the storeroom shine on the road
3	⸢diŋir⸣-ŋu₁₀ en₃-tukum-še₃ he₂-em-mi-gur-ru	“How long will he turn away from the ešibir temple?
4	[ša₃ ib₂]-ba-zu ki-bi-še₃ he₂-me-gi₄-⸢gi₄⸣	May your angry heart be restored to its place for me
5	[ša₃] me-ri-a-zu ki-bi-še₃ he₂-me-gi₄-⸢gi₄⸣	May the heart of your foot return to its place
6	⸢šu⸣ il₂-la-ŋu₁₀ maš₂-ŋu₁₀ de₃-a ga-ba-e-da-an-ku₄-ku₄	I want to enter with you into a house raising a goat.
7	a i-bi₂-ŋa₂ kadra-ŋu₁₀ de₃-a šu im-ma-e-ti	O, may a kadra prayer be performed before me
8	1(U) er₂ ud-da u₄ sizkur₂ de₃-a ŋi₆ a-ra-zu de₃-a	10 tears on the day, a day of offering, <moonrise to sunset>, an arazu prayer
9	e₂-e ša₃-ab hun-ŋa₂ de₃-a bar hun-ŋa₂ de₃-a	In the house, may there be a hung-on-the-throne, may he (also) be hung on the side.
10	la-bar-e kadra-ŋu₁₀ he₂-gu₇-e di-ŋu₁₀ he₂-ku₅-de	The labar priest may eat the kadra offerings, may he cut the offerings.
11	LUH ki-bi-da sa gal-la he₂-em-ma-da-an-ku₄-ku₄	... may he enter with him into the great net.
12	LUH ki-bi-da nu-kuš₂-u₃-ri he₂-em-ma-da-an-ku₄-ku₄	... may he enter with me into a place without exhaustion.
13	e₂ ši ka-na-aŋ₂-ŋa₂ mu-un-ma-al-la-ŋu₁₀ he₂-em-ma-da-[an-ku₄-ku₄]	May he enter with me into the house of abundance in the land.
14	ši kur-kur-ra mu-un-ma-al-la-ŋu₁₀ he₂-em-ma-da-[an-ku₄-ku₄]	May he enter with me into the heart of all the lands.
15	a e₂-a ki mu-un-kin-na nam-tag ŋal₂-la-ni	Woe, the temple, the place where he established sin,
16	nam-tag-bi imin a-ra₂ imin nam-tag-bi du₈-a	Its sin is seven times seven, its sin is released.
17	lu₂-bi sun₅-sun₅-na kir₄-šu-ŋal₂-la-ni-še₃ i-bi₂ zi bar-[...]	(Sum) Its man, whose face is full of tears, looks at him faithfully (Akk) This man, when he looks at himself faithfully
18	ša₃-zu ša₃ ama tu-da-gin₇ ki-bi ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄	May your heart, like the heart of a birth mother, be restored for me
19	ama tu-da a-a tu-da-gin₇ ki-bi ha-ma-gi₄-gi₄	May it be restored to its place for me, like the birth mother and birth father.
20	er₂-ša₃-hun-ŋa₂	Eršaḫunba
21	AN
22	{im}GID₂.DA {d}UTU-na-ṣi-ir	long tablet of Šamaš-nāṣir.
23	{iti}šu-numun-a ud 2(U)-⸢x⸣-[...]	On the 20th of Dumuzi

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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