CDLI Literary 000778, ex. 044 (P346680)

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
1. en#-e nig2-ul-e pa na#-[...]
 en: The lord also made manifest an ancient thing
2. en nam tar-ra-na szu# [...]
 en: The lord, in order to never change his decreed fate
3. {d}en-lil2 numun kalam-ma [...]
 en: The lord, in order to bring out the seed of the land from the earth
4. an ki-ta bad-re6-[...] sag# [...]
 en: He also moved forward to make heaven far apart from earth
5. [...] an-ta bad-re6-[...] sag# [...]
 en: He also moved forward to make heaven far apart from earth
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