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BM 035434 (P566606)
Literary, Neo-Babylonian, unclear · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 035434 |
|---|---|
| ID | P566606 |
| Museum no. | BM 035434 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | unclear |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
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 | ||
| 1 | u₃-a e-ne-eŋ₃-an-ni ⸢u₃-a⸣ e-⸢ne⸣-[eŋ₃-an-ni] | Woe me, woe me! |
| 2 | e-lum-ma ⸢u₃-a⸣ e-ne-⸢eŋ₃-an-ni⸣ | Honored one, when you speak to me |
| 3 | an ⸢gu-la⸣ [u₃]-⸢a⸣ e-ne-eŋ₃-<(an-ni)> | An, the great lord, his word |
| 4 | {⸢d⸣}[mu-ul-lil₂-la₂ u₃-a] ⸢e⸣-ne-eŋ₃-<(an-ni)> | “Eštar of Enlil, alas, the e’emene priestess |
| 5 | ⸢ur⸣-[saŋ u₃-mu-un uru₂-gal] ⸢u₃⸣-a e-<(ne-eŋ₃-an-ni)> | The ursa temple, the lord of the Great City, came forth for me |
| 6 | {[d}mes-lam-ta-e₃-a] ⸢u₃⸣-a e-<(ne-eŋ₃-an-ni)> | Meslamta'ea, the e’ea priestess, came to me |
| 7 | [e-ne-eŋ₃-an-ni a-zu ga-am₃-ma]-⸢ga a-zu-bi lul⸣ | I want to utter an arazu prayer to him, but that azu prayer is false |
| 8 | [e-ne-eŋ₃-an-ni mu u₈ mu-ak mu-bi še am₃]-⸢ša₄⸣ | When he speaks to me, the name of the ewe is “woe" - that name is released. |
| 9 | [...]-x | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [u₄-de₃ du₆-du₆-da šu-še₃] ⸢am₃-ma⸣-[ma] | The storm is the one of the Dududa, it is a ghost |
| 2' | [ur-saŋ u₃-mu-un uru₂-gal bu₅-bu₅]-⸢am₃⸣ igi mu-un-⸢bar-bar-re⸣ | The hero, the lord of the Great City, looks at him with awe. |
| 3' | [a-a] ⸢bu-bu⸣ gu₄-⸢de₃⸣ a-ar₂ im-de₆ | Father Bubu, he brought the oxen to the threshing floor |
| 4' | DUB 2KAM₂ GABA.RI DUB.GAL LIBIR.RA | Second tablet, copy of the original tablet. |
| 5' | ša₂ ina IM.BAL ⸢E₂⸣.DURU₅ GID₂.DA am-ru | (If) it is long in the imbalû of the E-tukulti-house: I will die. |
| 6' | {m}{d}EN-mu-bal-liṭ DUMU {m}ku-du-ra-nu IN.SAR | Bel-muballiṭ, son of Kudurrānu, wrote (this). |
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