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Letter from Inim-Inana to Lugal-ibila (Q000584)
Literary, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | Letter from Inim-Inana to Lugal-ibila |
|---|---|
| ID | Q000584 |
| 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}lugal-ibila u₃-na-dug₄ | Lugal-ibila praised, |
| 2 | {m}inim-{d}inana-ke₄ na-ab-be₂-a | Inim-Inana should not say: |
| 3 | eme-gir₁₅-še₃ gu₂-zu na-ab-šub-be₂-en | You should not raise your neck to Sumerian |
| 4 | 2(MAN)-kam-ma-še₃ eme si sa₂-bi-še₃ lu₂ mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄ | For the 2nd time, when the tongues were arranged correctly, someone was replying to you |
| 4A | x he₂-ŋal₂ | may he carry. |
| 5 | lu₂-tur igi-zu-še₃ al-durun{un}-na | Young man, when you stand before you |
| 6 | e₂-dub-ba-a-ta na-ab-ta-ed₂-en | Do not leave the scribal school! |
| 7 | na-an-ga-ma lu₂ na-me lul i-ri-ib-sig₁₀-ge₅ | Do not be negligent, no one should be negligent! |
| 8 | ugu ad-da-na-še₃ ga-am₃-ŋen a-ra-ab-be₂ | I want to utter an arazu prayer to his father |
| 9 | en-na ŋiškim ŋe₂₆-e u₃ za-e inim i₃-bal-en-da-na | Now he has sworn it, but you, when he violates the word |
| 10 | lu₂-u₃ mu-e-ši-in-gi₄-gi₄-a | “If a man will return it to you, |
| 11 | lu₂-tur šu nam-bi₂-bar-re-en | Do not release a child! |
| x MA bi₂-tuku a-ma-ru-kam lu₂-tur silim-ma-ni ad-da-x KA-za in-tuku | (Sum) ... he has ... (Akk) I have ..., I have seen you, the young man is well. |
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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