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OIP 016, 032 (P370896)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | OIP 016, 032 |
|---|---|
| ID | P370896 |
| Museum no. | CBS 11178 |
| Collection | Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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' | [...] ⸢ba⸣-tar-⸢re⸣ | ... etar-rēe |
| 2' | [... en]-⸢e⸣ ba-tar-re | ... the en priestess has decreed |
| 3' | [...]-⸢zu⸣ me-a a na-ba-be₂ ⸢en⸣-e ba-tar-re | ..., where is the water? “It has been turned into a mound’ |
| 4' | [...]-zu me-a a na-ba-be₂ en-e ba-tar-re | Your ..., where is the water? The lord is asking. |
| 5' | [...] ⸢e₂⸣-a e-re-eš na-ba-be₂ en-e ba-tar-re | The en priestess did not say “Alas, the temple, the censer,' |
| 6' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ki-e NI am₃-NE-NE me-na mu-un-⸢da⸣-zu | ... when/how long will you be able to learn |
| 7' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ga-a ga-e šu₂ me-na mu-un-da-zu | ... I, I, how long will you know? |
| 8' | [...]-⸢a⸣ ga-e šu₂ me-na mu-un-da-⸢zu⸣ | ... when/how long will I be able to learn |
| 9' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ba-da-DU me-na mu-un-da-⸢zu⸣ | ... when will he come out? |
| 10' | [...] ba-da-⸢DU⸣ me-na mu-un-da-zu | ... when will you learn? |
| 11' | [...] ⸢x⸣ ba-an-ni-⸢x-a-x⸣ | ... he made it ... |
| 12' | [...] ⸢x AŠ ba⸣-[...] | ... received |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣-ga [...] | ... in the temple |
| 2' | [...] ⸢tur₃⸣ ba-gub-ba-na na-⸢nam⸣ | ... when he stands in the cattlepen, he should not enter. |
| 3' | [...] ⸢amaš⸣-a šu ga-na na-nam | ... is indeed the hand of an adolescent |
| 4' | [...] ⸢UL⸣ hu-mu-⸢x⸣-bi-še₃ er₂ am₃-ši-še₈-še₈ | ... may he enter the Eul temple, she weeps. |
| 5' | [...] ⸢UD⸣ lil₂-zu a ⸢MU er₂⸣ am₃-ši-še₈-še₈ | ... the ešû-vessel is filled with tears. |
| 6' | [...]-⸢ul⸣-lil₂-zu a MU ir₂ am₃-ši-še₈-še₈ | ... cried out a lament for you |
| 7' | [...]-⸢ul⸣-lil₂ ⸢x x⸣ ba/zu MU ir₂ am₃-ši-šeš₂ | ... cried out a lament |
| 8' | [...]-⸢en⸣ tur gul-lu-de₃-en sig₄-me-a igi il₂ | We are to destroy the small ones, we are to raise our eyes to our brickwork |
| 9' | [...] lil₂-zu a MU ⸢sig₄⸣-me-a igi il₂ | ... your ghostly ..., the one who sees our brickwork |
| 10' | [... {d}mu]-⸢ul⸣-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ ZU a MU sig₄-me-a igi il₂ | ... of Muduĝ-Eula ..., the one who sees our brickwork |
| 11' | [...] [...] ⸢x⸣ | |
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