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CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 007 (P346240)

Update made on 2019-06-12 at 09:07:43 by Englund, Robert K. for Englund, Robert K.
&P346240 = CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 007
#atf: lang sux
@tablet
@obverse
$ beginning broken
1'. [...] x [...]
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2'. [...] x x [...]
#tr.en: ...
3'. [...] x [...] x x [...]
#tr.en: ...
4'. [...] x [...]
#tr.en: ...
5'. eme#-gir15-sze3! [...] eme#-[...]
#tr.en: Your tongue does not function properly for the Sumerian language
6'. a-ra2 he2#-szid# x [...]
#tr.en: If multiplication (tables) are (i.e., have to be manually) counted(?), you did not (actually) know them
7'. igi-diri he2#-duh# x [...]
#tr.en: If you (manage to) solve(?) the reciprocals, but the foundation (i.e. basis) is not grasped for you
8'. sahar-gar#-ra# x [...]
#tr.en: The problem involving the computation of river silt (volume?)(?) ... is not put in its place for you
9'. KA-inim#-ma# [...]
#tr.en: The topics/vocabularies(?) of the art of the scribal student
10'. szu-zu# [...]
#tr.en: By your hand they are produced(?)
11'. en3 u3-ra#?-tar# szu#? [...] x [...]
#tr.en: (But) when ... asks after you, (they say(?)) “do not entrust(?) it (your tablet?) (to anyone?)”
12'. szu nu#-sa6#-[...] ki# nam#-dub#-[...]
#tr.en: (Possessor) of a hand that is not good that is not read aloud in the school (lit. place of the scribal art)
13'. lu2-tu15# [...] x [...]
#tr.en: Idiot who attempts(?) to remove(!?) parasites and is dying from hunger
14'. nig2-HAR-ra eh-eh#?-NE# [...]-zu#
#tr.en: Going along with(?) parasites and ..., debt(?) is your appropriate thing (i.e., debt typifies you?)
15'. gaba-ri-gu10-me-en#
#tr.en: You are (really) my opponent?
$ double ruling
16'. a#-na#-asz-am3# ga2 x [...] nu#-me-en#
#tr.en: Why would I not be your opponent?
17'. lu2-tu15# lul du11-du11# [...]
#tr.en: Idiot, liar (who is like a) rider of a distant land
18'. gu4 szab ku5-ku5 [...]-x [...]
#tr.en: Ox with crippled hips, lying down in the yoke
19'. gu4 gu3 ra-ah-ta zi-ir-ir#?-[...]
#tr.en: Ox that is distressed by means of (its own) mooing(?)
20'. geme2 szu-ku6 {gesz}ba-an-e# u4# [...]
#tr.en: Female laborer (of?) a fisherman(?) spending time near the ban measure (to alter it in her favor?)
21'. sag lu2-tu15 udun bahar2#-ka# [...]
#tr.en: Slave(?), idiot lying next to the potter's kiln
22'. szagan-la2 ku3 dam#-[...]
#tr.en: Merchant apprentice/purse bearer that exhausts the silver of the merchant
23'. lu2-kurun-na zi3#-[...]
#tr.en: Brewer eating the zidmunu ration
24'. kiszi-a# ak [...]
#tr.en: One who has half (his hair shaved), come, ...
25'. lil hu-ru#-[um ...]
#tr.en: Childish fool, driveller/stammerer(?)
26'. a-na-gin7-nam# [...]
#tr.en: How is it that you compare with me?
$ double ruling
27'. 4(u)? 9(disz)
@bottom
1. 4(u@v) 9(disz@v)
#tr.en: Forty? nine? (entries, total of entire tablet?)
@reverse
1. ni2-su-ub lu2-tu15 dim2-ma# [...]
#tr.en: Lunatic, idiot, (possessing) the intellect of a monkey
2. e2 nu-tuku e-sir2-ra nu2#-[nu2]
#tr.en: Homeless one lying in the street
3. {im}szu-rin-na nam-lu2-lux(URU)-ka titab2 i-ni-[...]
#tr.en: Spreading out residue left from fermentation at the “oven of mankind” (a collective oven?)
4. {dug}utul2 ar-za-na {im}szu-rin-na-ta e11#-[...]
#tr.en: When you bring out the bowl (filled with) groats up from the oven
5. ba-e-da-gaz utul2 al-bil2-la-x [...]
#tr.en: It shatters to your detriment(?) due to the heat of the bowl(?)
6. ma-sila3 sa-sal-zu SU-a ab-sil2#?-[...]
#tr.en: Your heel and you Achilles tendon tear away at (your) flesh/skin
7. gi-gur nisi-ga-ta zu2 e-da-ra-ah! gi-gur szu#-[...]
#tr.en: You gnaw at (food from) the vegetable basket, and steal fish from the fisherman's basket
8. u4 didli {gesz}pu2 da-gum-ta igi-zu#? al#?-gu4#?-[...]
#tr.en: Many days your face/eye jumps/twitches from/by crushing holds(?)
9. ga-ab-sa10 ganba lu2#-[...]
#tr.en: Peddlar (who haggles over?) the market price(?), the grain roasters
$ double ruling
10. lu2-ni2-su-ub-ba-gin7 igi-zu#-[...]
#tr.en: They/we(?) fled from before you like lunatics
11. udun bahar2-ka x-[...]
#tr.en: When you ... at the potter's kiln
12. gu2-mur7-zu-ta za3 gu#-[du-zu-sze3 ...]
#tr.en: From your spine to the edge of your anus
13. zu2-kesz2 simx(GIG)-ma ab#?-[...]
#tr.en: (Your) verterbrae are filled with “sores” (i.e., ruptured disks and hemorrhoids?)
14. {gi}pisan ninda kur6-ma# lukur-e-ne#-[...] u3#-mu-ni#-[...]
#tr.en: When you(?) drop the basket (containing) the rations of the lukur priestesses
15. geme2 lukur-ra al-tur#-[...]
#tr.en: (Even) the female laborer of the the lukur priestess are belittled(?)
16. igi-zu zehda(|SZAH2.TUR|)-gin7 am3-ur4-ur4-re#?-de3#-[...]
16. igi-zu szah2-tur-gin7 am3-ur4-ur4-re#?-de3#-[...]
#tr.en: Your face, like a piglet, they are to pluck (bald, in retaliation?)
17. e2 dingir esz3 didli-ka i3#?-du8#? gudug-bi# u3-[sa2 ...] x x x [...]
#tr.en: At the temple of the god (and its) various shrines, its gatekeeper and gudug priest roam around for you (as if there was?) a deep sleep before them(?), they stand guard (i.e., are suspicious?) for you
#tr.en: At the temple of the god (and its) various shrines, its gatekeeper and gudug priest roam around for you (as if there was?) a deep sleep before them(?), they stand guard (i.e., are suspicious?) for you
$ rest broken
Cite this Inscription
CDLI contributors. 2025. “Text of CDLI Literary 000767, Ex. 007, Revision 2327810.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. April 19, 2025. https://cdli.earth/inscriptions/2327810.
CDLI contributors. (2025, April 19). Text of CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 007, revision 2327810. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/inscriptions/2327810
CDLI contributors (2025) Text of CDLI Literary 000767, ex. 007, revision 2327810, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/inscriptions/2327810 (Accessed: April 19, 2025).
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	url = {https://cdli.earth/inscriptions/2327810},
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