CDLI Literary 000382, ex. 023 (P346555)
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, UKMetadata / catalogue
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Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM —Provenience
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)Artifact Type
TabletMaterial(s)
ClayGenre / Subgenre(s)
Literary (ETCSL 2.02.05 Lament for Uruk (witness) Lamentation over Uruk)Language(s)
SumerianMeasurements
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obverse
beginning broken
1'. [...] ba#?-ab#?-gar x [...]
en: ... put water in the field, the city(?) was “consumed by the marsh” (i.e. destroyed)
2'. [...] gi# ki#-usz2#?-a-gin7 tu#-[...]
en: ... was being done(?), like the reeds of a wasteland, giving birth was not being established
3'. [...] x ba#-du11# iri#?-a nig2#-hul#?-[...] x mu-un-da-an#-[...]
en: They(?) scattered ... away, in the city evil ...
reverse
1. [...] te# ug3-ba nig2-me-gar tug2-gin7# [...]
en: A stupor covered? the terrified heart of the people like a garment
2. [{d}]udug sa6-ga-bi ib2-ta-[...] {d}lamma-bi ba-da-[...]
en: Its good udug protective deity left, its lamma protective deity fled
3. [...] edin-e bar bi2-ib-[...] giri3# kur2 ba#-ra-[...]
en: The lamma protective deity roamed(!?) in the plain, it took a different path
rest broken
Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Consult word list of Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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- Material: Clay
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history: UET 6, 0517, 2006
[Gadd1963] Gadd, Cyril J., and Aaron Shaffer. 1963, 1966.
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history: JAOS 104 (pp. 253-279), 255
[Green1984JAOS104] Green, Margaret W. 1984. “The Uruk Lament.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 104: 253–79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/602171.
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- Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
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- Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
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| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2023-06-15 at 20:34:30 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact | Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | approved |
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| 2019-06-11 at 11:02:44 | Englund, Robert K. | Atf | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | approved |
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| 2019-05-29 at 21:01:58 | Englund, Robert K. | Atf | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI | approved |
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| 2006-11-02 at 00:00:00 | CDLI | Artifact | Foxvog, Daniel A.; Guerra, Dylan; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Wolfe, Jared N. | CDLI | approved |
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Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:
This artifact is a witness to the following composite(s):
| Composite | Score |
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| CDLI Literary 000382 (Lament for Uruk) composite (P469684) | View the score |
Cite this Artifact
@misc{2023CDLI,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-07-29]},
year = {2023},
month = {jun 15},
title = {CDLI {Literary} 000382, ex. 023 artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P346555},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P346555},
}
TY - ELEC DA - 2023/6/15/ PY - 2023 ID - P346555 LB - CDLI:P346555 M1 - 2025/7/29/ TI - CDLI Literary 000382, ex. 023 artifact entry UR - https://cdli.earth/P346555 ER -