CDLI Literary 000799, ex. 023 (P346348)
Wisdom or proverb tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK
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Transliteration
tablet
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1. [...] bar# la2-[...]
2. [u3]-mu-ni-in-szub#
en: A donkey threw off/abandoned its bound sack
3. du#-lum u4-bi-ta-gu10
4. gesztux(|GISZ.TUG2|)-ga2 ulu3{+lu}-un e-sze
en: (Saying) “I will forget my toil of that (previous) time”
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1. [...] bar# la2-[...]
2. [u3]-mu-ni-in-szub#
en: A donkey threw off/abandoned its bound sack
3. du#-lum u4-bi-ta-gu10
4. gesztux(|GISZ.TUG2|)-ga2 ulu3{+lu}-un e-sze
en: (Saying) “I will forget my toil of that (previous) time”
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