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U 30663 (P468516)
CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Instructions, Old Babylonian, Ur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | U 30663 |
|---|---|
| ID | P468516 |
| Museum no. | U.30663 |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Instructions |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4 | the wife of a tukku priestess he made perfect |
| reverse 3' | ... its horns |
| obverse 6 | to destroy(?) |
| obverse 9 | the man of the river will not cross it |
| reverse 5' | to buy |
| obverse 1 | ...... |
| obverse 5 | A man who has not married a wife has known the knot of a knot |
| reverse 1' | ... |
| reverse 6' | it is... |
| obverse 10 | at the disposal of Lugula of Zalta |
| obverse 11 | ...-tar-DU |
| reverse 4' | he made perfect |
| reverse 2' | to buy |
| obverse 8 | the great bulls seized its tail(?) |
| obverse 3 | a man who has a friend or a friend has sinned against him |
| obverse 7 | ... raised |
| obverse 2 | the king |
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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