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Bur-Sin 1 (Q001973)

Royal Inscription, Old Babylonian, Nippur · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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DesignationBur-Sin 1
IDQ001973
LanguageSumerian
PeriodOld Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotNippur
Coordinates32.1271, 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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{d}bur-{d}sinBur-Sin
2sipa ša₃ nibru{ki} du₁₀-du₁₀shepherd who makes the heart of Nippur happy
3engar kala-gathe mighty farmer
4uri₂{ki}-maof Ur,
5geš-hur eridu{ki}-ga ki-bi gi₄the design of Eridu restored
6en me-a tum₂-malord fitting for me,
7unu{ki}-gaof Uruk
8lugal i₃-si-in{ki}-naking of Isin
9lugal ki-en-gi ki-uriking of Sumer and Akkad.
10dam me-te ur₂ ku₃ {d}inannawife suitable for the holy lap of Inanna,

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