Civil Notebook BM 047673 (P526829)
Lexical, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Civil Notebook BM 047673 |
|---|---|
| ID | P526829 |
| Museum no. | BM 047673 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Lexical |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 5' | {[urud}niŋ₂]-⸢dim₂⸣-dim₂ bu-⸢un⸣-[nu-u] | “It is the copper of the ešimmû-diadem, the bronze of the young man |
| 6' | {[urud}niŋ₂] ⸢gul⸣ tag-ga su-⸢un-gi-in⸣-[nu] | “The copper arrows, the arrow-heads, and the reed beams |
| 7' | {[urud}niŋ₂] gilim-ma {<MIN(su-un-gi-in-[nu])>} | a copper reed bundle |
| 8' | {[urud}niŋ₂]-|LAGAB+LAGAB|ma pu-uh-[rum] | a copper kettledrum, and a pot |
| 9'a | {[urud}niŋ₂]-zal-la₂-⸢da⸣ {<ŠU(nigzalladû)>}{u} | a type of copper |
| 9'b | {<(urud}niŋ₂-zal-la₂-da)> ma-[ag];-ša₂-ri | I have poured out copper for you |
| 10' | {[urud}niŋ₂]-zal-la₂-⸢da⸣ pu-uh-[rum] | a copper tether |
| 11' | {[urud}niŋ₂]-du₃-sud ma-ak-da-[du] | he made a copper statue of himself |
| 12' | [...] ⸢x⸣-ma šar-hul-[lu] | ... the šarḫulu-demon |
| 13' | {[urud]}niŋ₂ izi tag-ga um-mu-⸢rum⸣ | The “fire-bearing’ copper was poured out |
| 14' | {urud}niŋ₂ izi tag-ga šim-⸢tum⸣ | a bronze arrowhead with a burning fire |
| 15'a | {urud}zag-LU i-mit-tum | a copper ring |
| 15'b | {⸢urud⸣}[...] ...] | a copper vessel |
| 16' | {urud}zag-bar [...] | ... bronze |
| r | ||
| 1 | {urud}zag-bar ⸢gal⸣ [...] | a bronze ring for the palace |
| 2 | {⸢urud⸣}zag-bar gal tab-ba su-pa-⸢ri-in⸣-[nu] | The great bronze axes that are riveted to the poles of Supar |
| 3 | {⸢urud⸣}dib-dib ṣi-iṣ-ṣip-[pu] | a copper trough, a ṣippu |
| 4 | {[urud]}⸢a₂⸣ dib-dib nu-na-[x] | The e22a-e23 vessel that passed by did not |
| 5 | {[urud]}aga a-gu-[u] | a type of copper |
| 6 | {[urud}aga] giŋ₄ {<MIN(a-gu-[u])>} pa-[a-šu₂] | a copper reed ditto on his lips |
| 7 | {[urud}aga]-⸢silig⸣ {<⸢ŠU⸣(agasalakkum)>}{⸢kum⸣} | a type of sulphur, a kind of resin |
| 8 | {[urud}aga]-silig(⸢AGA) [kal]-ma-[ak-ru] | a kind of sulphur |
| 9 | {[urud]}giŋ₄ ⸢pa⸣-[a-šu₂] | a type of reed |
| 10 | {[urud]}giŋ₄ ⸢qud⸣-[du] | a copper reed pipe |
| 11 | {[urud]}tun₃-sal ⸢eh⸣-[zu] | a copper basket of eḫezu-plant |
| 12 | {[urud]}⸢dala₂⸣ ṣil-[lu-u] | a copper e22dala’e23 vessel |
| 13 | {[urud]}⸢šukur⸣ ⸢šu⸣-[kur-ru] | a copper kettledrum |
| 14 | {[urud}šukur] ⸢gal⸣ [...] | šukur-stone of the palace |
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)
- 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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