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CDLI Literary 000555, ex. 003 & 000556, ex. 002 (P357297)
Literary letter and letter-prayer, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000555, ex. 003 & 000556, ex. 002 |
|---|---|
| ID | P357297 |
| Museum no. | YBC 04672 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary letter and letter-prayer |
| 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 4 | They were the ones who swore by the kigeaju priest |
| obverse 13 | the great people of your land and the one who brought them |
| reverse 11 | the year (in which) Samsu-iluna the king |
| obverse 10 | a man struck with a thigh and a man with a weapon struck him |
| reverse 9 | 20 is its name. |
| obverse 8 | as for the one who removes the scribal art |
| reverse 1 | they have placed before them, and |
| obverse 6 | from the Egirani temple the man Nanna the governor of the land |
| obverse 5 | When a scribal art is performed before you |
| reverse 3 | What...? |
| reverse 7 | In the year (in which) the en-priestess of Lugalja stands, and the weapon is thrown into trouble |
| obverse 7 | to Zimudara |
| obverse 1 | the lands' decisions were changed |
| reverse 10 | month: “Feast,” 3rd day; |
| reverse 5 | when my king had been able to take counsel |
| obverse 3 | May your greatness be praised in the midst of the earth. |
| obverse 2 | So that the wall does not collapse, so that it does not collapse, so that it is established with weapons |
| obverse 4 | May he make the decisions of the land not change. |
| obverse 11 | If my king, the worktroops of the place where they are seated, |
| reverse 2 | You are the one who does not make the watch over the lands |
| obverse 12 | I want to smite the weapon |
| reverse 6 | At that time he restored the reed bed, and he set up a weapon. |
| obverse 9 | 2,200 labor-troops he brought |
| reverse 8 | The strength is not to be dispersed, the weapon is not to be dispersed, may my king know |
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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