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CDLI Literary 000358 (How Grain came to Sumer) composite (P469665)

Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CDLI Literary 000358 (How Grain came to Sumer) composite
ID	P469665
Language	Sumerian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Literary

Transliteration (ATF)

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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)
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1	ug3-e udu-gin7 u2 ka-ba mu-ni-ib-gu7	The people eat food in their mouths like sheep.
2	u4 re-a {d}ezina2 sze gu nu-zu	At that time, Ezina did not know the barley
3	an-ne2 an-sza3-ta im-da-an-e11-de3	An brought him out from the midst of heaven.
4	{d}en-lil2-le a2 dara3-gin7 hur-sag galam x-da e11-de3 igi mi-ni-ib-il2-il2-i	Enlil looked up at the ... mountain range like a wild cow.
5	igi-ni sig-sze3 mu-un-il2 a-ab-ba sug4-ga-am3	He raised his eyes to the south, it is a swamp.
6	igi-nim-sze3 mu-un-il2 kur szim {gesz}erin-na-kam	He raised it up to the east, it is a mountain of cedar aromatics.
7	{d}en-lil2-le sze in-dub kur-re ba-an-szum2	Enlil heaped up barley and gave it to the foreign lands.
8	he2-gal2 kalam-ma-ke4 in-x kur in-nu-ha x im-ma-an-szum2	The abundance of the land ..., the mountain was smitten ...
9	hur-sag gal2 da13-da13 igi ba-ni-in-tab-tab	He looked at the open mountains.
10	{gesz}sag-kul-bi an ki x [...]	Its bolt ... heaven and earth
11	{gesz}suhubx(\|SZU.ESZ.DI\|)-bi [...] x [...]	Its bolt
12	AN [...] ma x NIG2 [...] im?-mi-in-[...]	... ... she(?)
13	u4-ba {d}nin-a-zu x KA [...]	At that time Ninazu
14	szesz-a-ni {d}nin-ma-da-ra gu3 mu-na-de2-e	For his brother Ninmada he spoke to him
15	kur-sze3 ga-e-re7-en-de3-en [...]	Let us go to the netherworld
16	kur sze gu mu2-mu2 x [...]	The foreign lands that grow barley
17	i7 hal-hal a ki-ta \|DU.DU\| x AM? ma? x x x	The canal Ḫalhal
18	sze kur-ba ga-am3-ta-ab-e11-en-de3-en	We want to bring the barley from the mountains!
19	in-nu-ha ki-en-gi x x x [...]	Innuḫa of Sumer
20	ki-en-gi sze nu-zu sze gi-bi2-[...]	In Sumer, where there is no barley, where the barley is returned
21	{d}nin-ma-da szudu3 an-na-ke4 mu-na-ni-ib-gi4-gi4	Ninmada answered with the prayer of An:
22	nig2 a-a-me nu-mu-un-du11-ga [...]	That which our father did not say
23	nig2 {d}en-lil2-le nu-mu-un-du11-ga [...]	That which Enlil did not say
24	a-na-gin7-nam kur-sze3 i3-sub2-be2-en-de3-en	How can we go to the nether world?
25	sze kur-ba a-na-gin7-nam im-ta-ab-e11-de3-en-de3-en	How can we get away from the barley of its mountain?
26	in-nu-ha ki-en-gi a-na-gin7-nam im-ma-ni-ib-ku4-en-de3-en	Innuḫa of Sumer, how can we enter there?
27	ki-en-gi sze nu-zu a-na-gin7-nam im-bi2-ib-zu-zu-un-de3-en	In Sumer, where you do not know barley, how do you know it?
28	gen-na {d}utu an-na ga-ba-ni-re7-en-de3-en	Come, Utu of heaven, let us go!
29	lu2 ba-nu2-a lu2 ba-nu2-a u3-sa2 ku-ku-nam	The one who lies down, lying down, the one who sleeps - it is enough!
30	ur-sag dumu {d}nin-gal lu2 ba-nu2-a u3-sa2 ku-ku-nam	Hero, son of Ningal, the one who lies down, he is a slanderer.
31	{d}utu {gesz}ig 1(gesz2) 1(u)-am3 szu mu-na-an-zi	Šamaš raised a door of 60 00 (litres) for him
32	{d}utu {gesz}banszur? asz ki	Šamaš, the table

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