Literary tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Image
© Penn Museum
Transliteration
tablet
obverse
beginning broken
1'. [...]-sag#-me#-en3# [...]-x-e gub-ba-ta
2'. [... gu2]-erim2-gal2-[sze3 ...]-ki-a-ka [...] szeg12# i3-ni-gi4#
3'. [...]-nu#-e [...]-lil2#-la2-ka [...]-pa-ag2 dub2-i3
4'. lugal#-mu [...] x x x x
rest broken
reverse
beginning broken
1'. {gesz#}szu4#-dul5#? kal#-[...]
2'. lugal#-me-en3 kur-re# [...] galam# ba-ta-e3 un# se3-sze3 ga-am3-tak4
3'. gu2# kur-ra-ke4 giri3# u3-mi-us2
4'. x-bala-e [...] si#-ig#-ga ga-am3-du11
5'. [...] ki# x x
rest broken