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Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about irrigation work (Q000541)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about irrigation work |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000541 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lugal-ŋu₁₀-ra u₃-na-a-dug₄ | did Lugal-bum say to him: |
| 2 | {m}arad-ŋu₁₀ arad-zu na-ab-be₂-a | Barad-bū, your servant, should not say: |
| 3 | lugal-ŋu₁₀ niŋ₂ na-me-še₃ a₂-še mu-e-da-a-aŋ₂ | No king compares with me. |
| 4 | a-ab-ba kur dilmun{ki}-na-ta | from the Sea, the land of Dilmun |
| a mun₄ gaba kur mar-tu{ki}-ta a mun₄ gaba kur mar-tu{ki}-še₃ | “Alas, the malt, from the shores of the Amorite land, alas! the waters from the waters of the Maronite land, | |
| da si-mu-ur-ru-um ma-da X{ki}-še₃ gaba ma-da su-bir₄{ki}-ta | next to Simurrum, the border of the land of ..., from the border land of Subir | |
| iri{ki} dili-dili-bi ma-da-ma-da-bi ugnim-be₂-ne | The troops of the cities that had been plundered, | |
| 8 | id₂ a-šag₄ a-gar₃-bi u₃ eg₂ pa₅-bi | The river, the field, its meadows and its ditches |
| 9 | igi X IN X X DU en šag₄ X X | ... lord ... |
| 10 | iri{ki}-iri{ki} ŋiš tuku lugal-ŋu₁₀ | The cities that have been conquered, the king |
| 11 | ki X X X BI X X X ur₂ X X X X | ... the base ... |
| 12 | bad₃-bi en-nu-uŋ₃ kalag-ga bi₂-gub | Its walls he set up a mighty guard. |
| 13 | ugnim-bi gu₂ ŋiš bi₂-ŋar-ŋar | Its army roared |
| 14 | X sig X X X X NE X X | the xth, it was below |
| 15 | a-gar₃ a ŋar-ra-bi a-ta im-ta-e₃ | The water of the marsh came out from the water. |
| 16 | X eg₂ zal-la-bi X bi₂-ak | ... the one who passed by ... did. |
| 17 | X X a-šag₄-bi ŋiš-gi X-ra | ... its field ... reed |
| 18 | x X-ke₄ saŋ sag₃-ge X-bi | ... the one who scatters ... |
Sources & licences
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