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Letter from Inim-Inana to Enlil-massu (Q000583)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Inim-Inana to Enlil-massu |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000583 |
| 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 | {m}{d}en-lil₂-mas-su u₃-na-a-dug₄ | Enlil-massu spoke to him: |
| 2 | {m}inim-{d}inana-ke₄ na-ab-be₂-a | Inim-Inana should not say: |
| 3 | inim na-me ma-an-ne-eš-ma lul-aš ba-hul₂-le | No one speaks a word against me, no one rejoices over me |
| 4 | {d}lamma ud til₃-la-a kal-le lugal-šu₂ | Lamma, the one who keeps alive all day, his king |
| 5 | {m}na-bi-{d}en-lil₂ u₃ {d}en-lil₂-al-sag₉ | Nabi-Enlil and Enlil-alsag |
| 6 | um-mi-a šu igi du-zu-ne | The nursemaid, when you see him |
| 7 | {d}nin-imma₃ diŋir-zu | Ninimma, your ‘crossing-the-wall’ |
| 8 | u₃ {d}nisaba nin ŋeštug₂ daŋal-la-ke₄ | and Nisaba, the lady of the bala garment |
| 9 | ŋeštug₂ ha-ra-ab-šum₂-mu-ne | they shall wrap him in a garment. |
| 10 | niŋ₂ im-ma im-sar-re-a | whose fearsomeness is written on tablets, |
| 11 | iri šu-bi nu-gi₄ al-me-a nu-e-zu-u₃ | The hand of the city is unrelenting, you do not know it |
| 12 | 2(MIN) giŋ₄ kug-babbar 1(DIŠ) tug₂ 2(MIN) {tug₂}bar-sig₉ | 2 (ditto) reeds of silver, 1 textile, 2 barsig-garments |
| 13 | lu₂-gen₆-na šu mu-ra-da₁₃-da₁₃ šu ti-ba-ab | The one who is a stranger, he has sworn it to you, may he live! |
| ha-la da₁₃-da₁₃ ama-zu šu nam-bi₂-te-en-teŋ₃ da-da | Share, share! Your mother, do not let your hand be tied to the side! | |
| 15 | a-ma-ru-kam | It is an amaru. |
Sources & licences
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