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A fragment of a royal praise poem (Q000536)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | A fragment of a royal praise poem |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000536 |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | Nippur |
| Coordinates | 32.1271, 45.2300 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| Seg.A, | ||
| 1 | x X | |
| 2 | x X | |
| 3 | x X | |
| 6 | x lu₂ | ... man |
| 7 | x X | |
| Seg.B, | ||
| 1 | x E | ... |
| 2 | x X LA X DU X x x X X ur₂-ra | ... behind |
| 3 | x {d}en-lil₂ nam-lugal sud-da X mu-na-an-šum₂-ma X X IG | Enlil gave him the mighty kingship |
| 4 | x X DI šag₄ kuš₂-u₃-a x-e | ... in pain ... |
| 5 | x šul {d}suen-na-ra | for the ... of Suen |
| 6 | x šag₄ mu-na-an-huŋ-ŋe₂₆-e | ... calms the heart for him |
| 7 | x X mu-na-ni-in-šum₂ | ... he gave to him |
| 8 | x TAG x X ba-gub-be₂-en | I stand ... |
| 9 | x X X x X ib₂-ŋal₂ | he will carry |
Sources & licences
- 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)
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