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YBC 04600 (P504952)
CANONICAL, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | YBC 04600 |
|---|---|
| ID | P504952 |
| Museum no. | YBC 04600 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL |
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 16 | to the border of the great shrines |
| obverse 18 | a leopard with a hand set in front of a chariot like a reed-bed |
| obverse 26 | in the place of the scribal art, its heavy words |
| obverse 1 | like a gisig mountain, you cannot smite it |
| obverse 23 | to smite the incantations and rites that cannot be altered |
| obverse 28 | ... the salves(?) |
| reverse 8' | by Inana, lady of the Ishtars |
| obverse 17 | in front of a ukur scribal art like a scribal art |
| reverse 5' | I am Shulgi, I am the Eju temple, the Eursag temple, the great... palace |
| obverse 11 | to the side of its seed, to the side of the u-vessel |
| obverse 13 | he did not raise his crown. |
| obverse 20 | light with great strength, a wild bull that has no rival |
| obverse 21 | In order to slaughter the oxen of its mountain in the plain |
| reverse 11' | he made perfect the divine radiance of the universe |
| reverse 1' | ... |
| reverse 6' | It is the residence of kingship, the praise of the great praises |
| reverse 12' | ... is sweet |
| obverse 14 | to the dais of kingship, |
| obverse 10 | I am the king who makes the land pleasant |
| reverse 3' | I am the one chosen by Nanna |
| obverse 9 | so that he does not smite his words with the mouth |
| obverse 15 | I am the one who gives wisdom and wisdom |
| obverse 6 | I am the king, its lamassu-disease is a mighty..., its song |
| reverse 13' | 62 is its name. |
| reverse 10' | I am the exalted king of kings |
| obverse 7 | He poured out a libation bowl on the place of jugs. |
| obverse 19 | he made the city dwell on its right and left. |
| obverse 3 | As if (it were) the case, the singers did not stand by him |
| reverse 4' | I am the one who makes the house of Enlil flourish, the servant of An |
| obverse 24 | he smote the heart like a lion |
| obverse 5 | How is it that the rites of the scribal art that are not written on the scribal art? |
| obverse 2 | when you are finished |
| reverse 2' | I am the one who sets the horns of its house in order |
| reverse 9' | The lamassu-disease, the lamassu-disease, and the lamassu-disease |
| obverse 27 | whose holyness is a great name |
| obverse 8 | so that the enduju priest does not forget his supplication |
| reverse 14' | the 11th day of Kislimu |
| obverse 25 | Your door jambs, what is it to you? |
| obverse 22 | in its midst |
| obverse 12 | the king smote the smote |
| reverse 7' | Like a mountain range of lapis lazuli, I am the one who heaps up |
| obverse 4 | a sakal priestess forever |
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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