CDLI Literary 000343, ex. 042 (P346466)

Literary 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
obverse
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1'. [...] x [...]
 en: ...
2'. [...] giri17-[...]
 en: She (NinÅ¡ubur) scratched her face, she scratched her nose
3'. [...] giri3-ni#? [...]
 en: She took a single path to the Ekur, the temple of Enlil
4'. [...] ba#-da-an#-[...]
 en: She entered the Ekur, the temple of Enlil
5'. [...] er2# im-ma-[...]
 en: She was weeping before Enlil
6'. [...]-ra#?-ke4 nam-ba-da-an#-[...]
 en: No one should be allowed to mix your good quality silver with the unrefined ore of the mountain
7'. [...] nam-ba-da-[an-...]
 en: No one should be allowed to split apart your good quality lapis lazuli among the beads of the gem cutter
8'. [...] nam-ba-da-[an-...]
 en: No one should be allowed to split apart your boxwood among the wood of the carpenter
9'. [...] nam-ba-da-[an-...]
 en: No one should be allowed to kill young woman Inanna in the netherworld
10'. [...] x [...]
 en: ...
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reverse
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