Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: CBS 14104
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: UM 29-15-574
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: N 3748
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
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Collection: Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey
Museum no.: Ist Ni 04025
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: CBS 14017 (+?) HS 1435 + HS 1539 + HS 1542 + HS 1757
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: UM 29-15-565
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: CBS 08314
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
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Collection: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Museum no.: IM 058467
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur#-mah-e szah2 gesz-gi4# in#-dab5#?
en: A lion caught a marsh boar
2. gu3# mu-ra-ra-ra en-na-bi-sze3
3. uzu-zu ka-gu10 nu-ub-si
en: He shouted “How much longer will your flesh not fill my mouth?”
4. za-pa-ag2-zu gesztux(|GISZ.TUG2|)#-gu10
5. ulu3{+lu}-un e#-[sze]
en: (So that(?)) my ears can forget(?) your squeal
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-gir15 zu2 ub-ra-ra
en: When a dog bites/devours
2. ninda pad-ra2 ka-ga14-ni-sze3#?
en: (Every) crumb (finds its way?) to its mouth
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. {ansze}kunga2 ninda2-zu i3-zu-de3-en
2. u3 ama-zu i3-zu-de3
en: kunga equid (onager), you will know your (bovine) breeder(?) and you will know your mother
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ansze izi-sze3
2. tusz-a gesz3 bir2-bi
3. al-il2-en e-sze
en: It is said “Donkey, huddle towards the fire(?), you are raising the flaccid penis”
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur# kun#-bi-sze3 na-ab#-[be2-a]
en: The dog was speaking to its tail:
2. al-gun3-gun3-nu al-x-x-[...]
en: "Sparkling, ...
3. dumu-gu10 ki ag2# x x e-sze
en: My beloved child ...
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM 058648
Provenience: Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Date: 00.00.00.00
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum no.: N 3741
Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
Period: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum no.: YBC 04604
Provenience: —
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum no.: YBC 09886
Provenience: —
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur#-mah-e a2-tah-ni
2. gesz#-gi# lu-lu-am3
en: As for the lion, his helpers (in) the reed bed are teeming
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3. [ur]-mah-e gesz-gi-a
4. lu2# zu-a-ni nu-ub-gu7
en: The lion has not eaten his acquaintance in the reed bed
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-mah-e ud5 hu-na mu-ni-dab5
en: The lion seized the she-goat in (its) weakness(?)
2. szu# ba-am3 u8 tab-ba-gu10 gur4-ra
3. [ga]-mu-ra-ab-szum2
en: (Who said) “Release (me), and I shall give my thick(er) companion ewe to you”
4. tukumbi# szu mu-un-szi-bar-re-en
en: (The lion said) “If I release you towards her(?), tell me your name”
5. [...] du11-ma-ab ud5-e ur-mah-e
6. [...]-ib-gi4-gi4 za-e mu-gu10 nu-zu
en: The she-goat was answering the lion “You have not known my name?”
7. [...]-ak# mu-gu10 u4 e2-tur3-ra-sze3 i3#-[...]
en: "I can be intelligent” (is) my name!” When (the lion) went to the pen
8. [...]-na#?-gu10 gu3 mu-na-de2-e#
en: He was shouting to her “my(?) ...”
9. [...] gu3#? ri-a mu-na-ni-ib-gi4#-[...]
en: She was answering him from afar
10. [...] udu# hi-a nu-dur2-ru-na e-[sze]
en: "I have been intelligent! Instead of sheep(?), nothing dwells (here)!”
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur sa6-ga
en: A sweet dog
2. ur-tur-sze3 in-ku4
en: has become a puppy (again).
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-gir15-re ga-ba-al
en: To a dog hostility
2. nam-mu-du3-en
en: do not display,
3. zu2 nu-mu-ra-ab-ku5-de3
en: and it will not bite you.
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
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1. ur-gir15-re szu te-ba-ab
en: The dog “take it!”
2. mu-un-zu
en: knew,
3. ga2-ga2 nu-ub!-zu-am3#
en: putting down it did not know.
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-gir15!-re# libx(|NI.UDU|) he2-x-[...]
en: If a dog ... sheep lard
2. ur-gir15!-re mu-bi!-[im]
en: Its name is “dog”
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1. ur-gir15-re libx(|NI.UDU|)# [he2-...]
en: If a dog ... sheep lard
2. ur-gir15-re [mu-bi-im]
en: Its name is “dog”
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-gir15 [...]
en: The dog ...
2. {uzu}sag-[...]
en: meat ...
3. im#-mi-[...]
en: ... .
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Witness
Witness to composite(s): Q000799
Primary Publication:
Collection: British Museum, London, UK
Museum no.: BM —
Provenience: Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: lang sux
tablet
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1. ur-gir15-re kasz-de2-a-sze3 al-du-un
en: A dog going to a banquet
2. giri3-pad-ra2 igi mu-ni-in-duh ba-gub
en: saw a bone and stopped(?):
3. ki al-du-na-am3
en: "Where I go,
4. diri ne-en-na#-am3
en: more of this(?)
5. al-gu7-[...] e#-sze#
en: I will eat” he said.
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1. hal#-la ur-gir15#-ra#-ka
en: The “inheritance share"(?) of a dog:
2. giri3-pad-ra2 al-de5-de5-ga
en: bones are selected.
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