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Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about the country (Q000542)
Literary, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Aradĝu to Šulgi about the country |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000542 |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Literary |
| Find spot | uncertain |
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 | lugal-ŋu₁₀-ra u₃-na-a-dug₄ | did Lugal-bum say to him: |
| 2 | {m}arad-ŋu₁₀ arad₂-zu na-ab-be₂-a | Barad-bū, your servant, should not say: |
| 3 | lugal-ŋu₁₀ ma-da daŋal-la niŋ₂ nam-ra-aš mu-ra-an-šum₂-ma-a | Lugal-bābu, the one who makes the land tremble with fearsomeness |
| 4 | gu₃ teš₂-a sig₁₀-ge₅ dim₂-ma-bi 1(AŠ)-am₃ | Its utterances are 1 (as many as) |
| 5 | uŋ₃ u₂-gin₇ lu-lu {d}šul-gi-ra sipad inim gen₆-na-bi | Like a rainstorm, it is a raging storm for Šulgi, the shepherd, whose words are good |
| 6 | nam-lu₂-ulu₃ sig igi-nim-ma diŋir-bi za-e-me-en | Humanity, you are the one of the lowland and the highland. |
| 7 | igi-bi ma-ra-ši-ŋal₂ | before Maraši-bal |
| 8 | uŋ₃ daŋal-la u₂-gin₇ lu-lu a mah {id₂}idigna {id₂}buranun-na-ta | “At the crossing of the Tigris and Euphrates like a flood, |
| 9 | x X {id₂}idigna-še₃ lugal-ŋu₁₀ silim-ma ab-dug₄-ga | ... to the Tigris, a king who is well-disposed |
| 10 | x X ib₂-zi-zi | will raise . |
| 11 | x ba-da-an-ŋar | he smote. |
| 12 | x X-ak-en | ... I did. |
| 13 | x-kal-la-bi | ...-kala |
| 14 | x X u₃-bi₂-si | ... he filled. |
| 15 | x X | |
| Seg.B, | ||
| 1 | x X | |
| 2 | x-an-tuku-a | X-antukua |
| 3 | x X-me-en | I am ... |
| 4 | x X X X | |
| 5 | x dumu ma-da gu-tu-u₂-um{ki} | son of the land of Gutum, |
| 6 | x{ki} ma-ri₂{ki} u₃ ra-pi₂-qum{ki} | Mari and Rapiqum |
| 7 | lu₂ ŋiš tuku-tuku-ne igi-ŋa₂ i₃-ŋal₂ | Whoever has a claim will clear it of claims. |
| 8 | niŋ₂ lugal-ŋu₁₀ ab-be₂-na ga-ab-ak | I want to utter an arazu prayer to his father |
Sources & licences
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