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Letter from Ur-Enlila to a governor and temple administrator (Q000576)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Ur-Enlila to a governor and temple administrator |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000576 |
| 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 | ensi₂ saŋŋa-ra u₃-na-a-dug₄ | for the governor of Sabara he satisfied, |
| 2 | {m}ur-{d}en-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ na-ab-be₂-a | Ur-Enlil says: |
| pa₅ a-luh-ha a i-ib₂-tum₃ i₃-luh-ha | He brought water to the aluhha canal, he brought water. | |
| {m}{d}en-lil₂-diŋir-ŋu₁₀ u₃ ha-an-za-mu {m}{d}en-lil₂-a₂-ŋu₁₀ {m}{d}en-lil₂-la₂-ŋu₁₀ | Enlil-dibir-būšu and Hanzamu, Enlile-abû and Enlilšalabu | |
| ib₂-sig₃-ge-eš mu-da-an-kar-re-eš ib₂-sig₉-ge-eš | They will strike, they will strike with each other | |
| 6 | {m}lugal-an-ne₂ na-ab-be₂-a | did Lugalane say, |
| 7 | ŋe₂₆-e pa₅ 1(DIŠ)-am₃ za-e pa₅ 1(DIŠ)-am₃ ensi₂ pa₅ 1(DIŠ)-am₃ | “It is the 1st canal, you are the one, it is the first canal, the governor is the 1. |
| a he₂-mu-e-de₆ bi₂-dug₄ nu-mu-un-še-ge-eš he₂-mu-e-dug₄ | May he pour water for me, may he drink it. May they not approach me!” | |
| 9 | erin₂ id₂-zu nu-ma pa₅-bi a i-ib₂-tum₃ | The work-troops who do not have a canal carry water. |
| 10 | ŋa₂-a sah₆-bi a ma-ab-tum₃ | “Its fish brought water to me. |
| a₂ ma-tur 5(IA₂) ŋuruš 10 hu-mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄-ma 60(DIŠ) | the labor of a young man, 5 burušs, 10 may he return to me, so that (it is) 60 | |
| 12 | a-ma-ru-kam | It is an amaru. |
Sources & licences
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