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CDLI Literary 000789 (Poem of Early Rulers) composite (P478954)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | CDLI Literary 000789 (Poem of Early Rulers) composite |
|---|---|
| ID | P478954 |
| 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 | [...] | |
| 2 | [...] | |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | [...] | |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] x li-bi-in-du3-a | ... that he had built |
| 7 | [...] x-am3 lu2-be2-ne szu bala ak-a | ... the people did the bala. |
| 8 | [...] lugal-e mu 1(szar'u)-am3 in-ak | ... the king acted for 10 hundred years. |
| 9 | [...] lugal-e lu2 an-sze3 bi2-in-e3-de3 | ... the king brought the man up to heaven |
| 10 | [...] zi-u4-su3-ra2-gin7 nam-ti i3-kin-kin | Like a rising flood, he established life |
| 11 | [...] ba-an-za-za dab5?-ba?-ta | After ... had been seized, |
| 12 | [...] kalam?-ma? nu?-dar-ra-ke4 | ... of the land(?) that cannot be separated(?) |
| 13 | [...] lugal-e-ne dub-sag u4 ul-le2-a-ke4-ne | ... the kings, the scribes of distant days |
| 14 | [...]-un-pesz4-pesz4-a nu-un-tu-u4-da | ... did not give birth to ... |
| 15 | [...]-gin7 szu-gu10 sa2 bi2-in-du11-ga | Like a ..., my hands were bound. |
| 16 | [...] na-me nu-mu-un-zu-a | ... no one knows. |
| 17 | [...]-a-bi [...] x igi nigin2-na-kam | Its ... is a circle of ... |
| 18 | [...] nu-zalag-ga [...] ugu nam-usz2-a-kam a-ba-am3 bi2-in-dirig-ga | ... not shining ... who surpasses you in death? |
| 19 | [...] il2-la u4 sza3 hul2-la x nig2-me-gar mu 1(szar'u)-am3 in-ak | ... raising ..., a day of joy, ... a hundred thousand years he ruled |
| 20 | [...] dingir-re-e-ne bi2-in-szum2-ma-am3 [...]-ra?-ra nam-ti i3-kin-kin | ... he gave to the gods, he established life for ... |
| 21 | [...] ha-la lu2-u18-lu-kam [...] ti-a e2 gurusz-ke4 | ... the share of a man ... in the house of the young man |
Sources & licences
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