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BM 056749 (P579598)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | BM 056749 |
|---|---|
| ID | P579598 |
| Museum no. | BM 056749 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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-mu-un]-⸢na⸣ e-ne-[eŋ₃-ŋa₂-ni ba-da-te] | The word of Umuna'e approached him |
| 2' | e-ne-eŋ₃ an gu-la-ke₄ [ba-da-te] | The word of Great An approached. |
| 3' | e-ne-eŋ₃ {d}mu-ul-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ [ba-da-te] | the word of Enlil was uttered |
| 4' | e₂ zi-ŋu₁₀ uru₂-a mu-ni-in-gul u₁₈-lu-⸢da-ni⸣ [ma-te] | He destroyed the true temple in the city, his messenger approached |
| 5' | mu-lu zi-ŋu₁₀ uru₂-a mu-ni-in-gam u₁₈-lu-da-ni ma-⸢te⸣ | The righteous man took him into the city, his messenger approached him. |
| 6' | e₂-ŋu₁₀ zi gal-gal-bi ba-gul u₁₈-lu-da-ni ma-te | The house of the cattle pen is destroyed, his messenger approached me. |
| 7' | e₂-ŋa₂ mu-lu gi-il₂ gam-gam-bi ba-uš₂ u₁₈-lu-da-ni ma-te | The one of the reed screen is slaughtered in the house, his messenger approaches. |
| 8' | ša₃-ŋa₂ lu₂ ki-sikil gam-gam-bi ba-uš₂ u₁₈-lu-da-ni ma-te | The heart of a young woman who has been slaughtered, his messenger approached me. |
| r | ||
| 1 | ama-gan me-en ud-da ga-ba-da-zah₂ lu₂ nam-mu-un-pad₃-de₃ | I am a child-bearing mother, I want to flee today, no one should find me! |
| 2 | ud-da e₂ kug-ga ga-ba-da-zah₂ lu₂ nam-mu-un-pad₃-de₃ | Today I want to flee into the pure house, no one should find me! |
| 3 | e₂ kug e₂ šen-na ba-da-zah₂ lu₂ nam-mu-un-pad₃-de₃ | The holy house, the pure house, has been plundered, no one should find me! |
| 4 | lu₂-u₃-ne kiŋ₂-ŋa₂ kiŋ₂-kiŋ₂ ke₄-ne de₃-mu-un-pad₃-de₃ | May the people of the earth and the earth find him! |
| 5 | e₂-ri-a kiŋ₂-kiŋ₂ ke₄-ne de₃-mu-un-pad₃-de₃ | May he find me in the cedar and the earth! |
| 6 | ⸢e-ne-ra⸣ balaŋ-ŋa₂-ni šir₃ ⸢mu-na-ra i⸣-[lu] ⸢mu⸣-[na-be₂] | After he has completed his reign, he will be able to say “It is enough, it is enough!" |
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