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CUSAS 42, 604 (P409762)
Wisdom or proverb, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CUSAS 42, 604 |
|---|---|
| ID | P409762 |
| Museum no. | CUNES 48-10-138 |
| Collection | Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Wisdom or proverb |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. 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 i | ||
| 1 | [...]-⸢x⸣ su₄ | “...-e23-su |
| 2 | 2-⸢am₃ x x-ni⸣-ra | for the second time |
| 3 | 3-am₃ itud nig mah₂ | It is three, a great month. |
| 4 | 4-am₃ ubur ⸢ab₂⸣-am₃ | It is four, the breast of a ešaba-house. |
| 5 | 5 šu-si lu₂-kam | 5 fingers of a man |
| 6 | 6-am₃ gud {ŋeš}šudul₄ si-sa₂-⸢a⸣ | 6 oxen, sucklings, |
| 7 | 7 mul an-na ⸢gub-ba⸣ | The 7 stars of heaven stand at the horizon. |
| 8 | 8 šu-si {ŋeš}balaŋ | 8 strings of emmer |
| 9 | 9 ninda ug₅-ga | 9 dead breads, |
| 10 | 10-am₃ itud lu₂-kam | ten, the month of a man; |
| 11 | 11-am₃ itud eme₅ | Eleven days, she-donkeys, |
| 12 | 12-am₃ itud mu | Twelve (lines). That month, year |
| 13 | 10+3-am₃ itud {⸢d}nanna za-gin₃⸣-na | 93th day of the month, “Nanna of lapis lazuli’ |
| 14 | 14-⸢am₂⸣ itud {ŋeš}[x-x] | 14th day, month |
| 15 | 15-⸢am₃⸣ {d}⸢nanna⸣ kar za-gin₃-na-še₃; ib₂-teŋ₃ | The 15th, Enanna approached the lapis lazuli harbor. |
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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