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CUSAS 42, 662 (P409518)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 42, 662 |
|---|---|
| ID | P409518 |
| Museum no. | CUNES 48-09-142 |
| Collection | Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain |
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 | {ŋeš}al-am₃ <a₂> nam-ŋuruš-ka | It is the hoe, the place of your extispicy |
| 2 | {ŋeš}al {ŋeš}dupsik-⸢e⸣ aga-ni tud-dam | The hoe, the upsik-ē22e’e, his crown was fashioned. |
| 3 | e₂ zid {ŋeš}⸢al du₃⸣-e ⸢gana₂⸣ {ŋeš}al ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | The righteous house is built, the field is erected, the hoe is torn out |
| 4 | ⸢gan₂⸣-ne₂ zid-⸢de₃⸣ [x] ⸢x-la⸣-me-en | I am the one who rises up high in the fields |
| 5 | ⸢gan₂⸣-ne₂ lugal-bi ⸢bala⸣-e | Its king, the en-priestess |
| 6 | ⸢gan₂⸣-ne₂ lugal-bi ⸢x⸣ nu-mu-⸢un-na⸣-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | Its king did not raise a claim against it |
| 7 | {ŋeš}al-e lugal-bi gu₂ ⸢mu⸣-na-ab-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | “The hoe is its king, the neck is its neck! |
| 8 | {u₂}numun₂ šag₄ da-nu saŋ-bi dub₂-dub₂-de₃ | The seed of Anu's field is to be heaped up |
| 9 | ur₂-ba mu-un-bur₁₂-⸢re⸣ pa-bi₂ mu-un-ze₂-a | Its roots were burled, its branches were cut off. |
| 10 | {ŋeš}al {u₂}|KAL.HI×BAD|{in} šu-⸢še₃⸣ al-ŋa₂-ŋa₂ | The herdsman carries the kalhû-plant, the šu’esḫu-plant |
| 11 | {⸢ŋeš⸣}al ŋeš nam tar-ra a-a {d}en-[lil₂]-le | The hoe, the hoe whose fate is determined, father Enlil |
| 12 | {⸢ŋeš⸣}al za₃-mi₂ ⸢dug₄⸣-ga {d}nisaba ⸢za₃-mi₂⸣ | The hoe is praiseworthy, the scepter is Nisaba, the hoe (is) praiseworthy |
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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