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MSL 17, 056 K (P388224)
Lexical, Neo-Babylonian, Ur · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MSL 17, 056 K |
|---|---|
| ID | P388224 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
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 i | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢pa⸣-rak-[ku] | ... epa’erakku |
| 2' | [...] šub-[tu] | ... possessions |
| 3' | [...] ib-⸢ra⸣-[tu] | ... he will be released |
| 4' | [...] ne₂-[me-du] | ... the one who knows ... |
| 5' | [hub₂]-{⸢sa⸣-ar₂}sar ha-⸢an⸣-[na-as-ru] | “Ḫum-esa-ear-sar ḫan-e-ana-sru |
| 6' | [hub₂]-sar-⸢re⸣ [...] | Hubsarrê ... |
| 7' | gu ⸢qu⸣-[u₂] | |
| 8' | [a]-ha-an [...] | ... a half ... |
| 9' | gu ha-a-[an] [...] | may he ... ... |
| 10' | ⸢en⸣ sur ⸢e⸣-[de-du] | “If he slips in through a hole, |
| 11' | [x] sur [...] | ... ... |
| 12' | ⸢sun₅⸣-am₃ [ha]-ra-[pu] | It is a reddish ebony |
| r i | ||
| 1' | ⸢da⸣-[ri-a] ⸢da⸣-[ru-u₂] | “It is enough, it is enough! It is sufficient! |
| 2' | lah₄-[lah₄] [...] | ... lahlaḫ |
| 3' | pa-[ag-da-ru] [...] | The scepter ... |
| 4' | ⸢im⸣ [...] [...] | |
| r ii | ||
| 1' | inim nu-ŋar nu-ul-[la-tu] | a word not to be uttered, not to arise |
| 2' | inim niŋ₂-erim₂ ra-gu-[gu] | a word of fearsomeness |
| 3' | inim tar-ra-gu <ra>-ga-gu | <(If)> he is to speak a word, he will speak it. |
| 4' | [dar]-dar-ra na-an-gi-gu | Do not turn back! |
| 5' | [sa-us₂]-bi sa-bi-ʾ-u₂ | its limbs are sagging |
| 6' | [...] sa-ab-bi-ʾ-tum | ... sabbītum |
| 7' | [...] ⸢u₂-la⸣-lu | ... elalu |
| 8' | [...] en-[šu] | ... his father |
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)
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