SEAL no. 1764
Texts Hierarchy
Copy / Photo
386
http://www.ur-online.org/subject/18223/
Tablet Siglum
U.17207, 11
Collection
British Museum, London
Edition
Vol. 1 247, 326
Studies
237
Cat. No. 188
Genre / Classification
Wisdom Literature, Proverbs
Bilingual
Provenance
External Links
Notes
UET 6/3, p. 34: location "1 Broad Street".
Text
obv.
1 gi4-in-mènmà-en
2 ga-ša-an-mèn
3 še-er nu-ù-mu-un-na-ma-al
4 mu-ud-na-mu
5 ga-an-zé-e-še
6 a-ma-ku-ú-ma a-na ⌈be-el-ti⌉-ia
7 ú-la e-te-el-le-ku
8 lu-ul-li-ik
rev.
9 ḫa-wi-ri
10 lu-ub-qú-ma-am
Translation
6//1–2 I, a slave girl,
7//3 have no authority over my lady.
8 Let me go!
10//5 let me go pluck
9//4 My husband!
Vocabulary
| Word | Translation | Semantic | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| amtum (//gi4-in) | maid, female slave | 1,6 | |
| bēltum (//ga-ša-an) | lady, mistress, proprietress | 2,6 | |
| etellum (NIR) | lord, prince, pre-eminent | Social status/Groups/Professions | 7 |
| ḫāwirum (//mu-ud-na) | husband | 4,9 |
Signs in text
56
Words in text
14
Sumerograms in text
0
Lines in text
10
Average signs per line in text
5.60
SD of signs per line
2.59
Revision History
Wagschal, Avigail
Transliteration and indexing
24/03/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Web-formatting
24/03/10
Meltzer, Keren
Web-indexing
07/04/10
Wasserman, Nathan
Photography, web-imaging
08/03/12
Streck, Michael P.
Formatting
16/04/12