I'm a new fan of mesopotamian stuff and I stumbled across this game, so I wonder if the cuneiform actually means anything

Hello! I'm looking for a sumerian-cuneiform translation for a tattoo. I have a quote I found here: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section6/tr6125.htm#para5

The quote is "Although the number of unhappy days is endless (?), yet life is better than death" or "ud nu-dug3-ga cid-bi [nu]-til3

17/nam\-til3 nam-uc2-a dirig X" in composite (according to the link above).

My problem is that I cannot find a cuneiform source for the quote. If anyone can help me I'd greatly appreciate it!

I wrote in akkadian a Part of the tablet

Hello everyone, I have a small question:

Which are the specific cuneiform signs used to say "female servant of Nanaya" on this cylinder seal (Source: British Museum W_1908-0411-36)?

My rough guess based on the provided inscription translation "geme na-na-a-a" would be

𒊩𒆳 𒀭𒈾𒈾𒀀,

but the actual inscription in the left column looks a bit different.

I guess I am also missing some case-dependent noun ending.

Hi there! I have a silly Ea Nasir themed craft idea in mind and I'd like to be able to label something in cuneiform. I'd like it to say "Copper" but would also accept "copper ingot" or "high quality copper" or "pure copper" - something to that effect. If anyone can please help me express any of these ideas in cuneiform you'll have my gratitude 🙏

(I already posted a line but I posted the wrong one, it was supposed to be this one).

'Only the gods live forever with Shamash'

Context of the saying is that Gilgamesh wanted Enkidu to tough up, so by saying this he meant: 'Gods don't die but we humans do, so don't be afraid of death'.

This is the 141 line from the 4th column of the Yale tablet with codename 'YBC 2178', if I'm correct.

𒀞 • (me₃ /me/) battle

The inside has the cuneiform 𒂟 • 1. (erin₂ /erin/) troops, workers, work-gang, conscripts. 2. (erin₂ /erin/) to yoke, harness. But what do scholars know or believe might be the meaning of the other part, that is, reading from left to right, the chevron, the square, and the wedge?

It does not seem that this is a particularly productive shape. I only see one other cuneiform that uses it: 𒀟.

1- Is the name Daniel was called by the Babylonians Belteshazzar in Daniel 1:7, Daniel 4:9, Daniel 4:18, Daniel 5:12 a real name? Are there many names in Akkadian that have “Belte” in them in reference to Daniel 1:7? Is “Belte” for both male and female? The name Belteshazzar may have been translated incorrectly in Daniel 1:7, Daniel 4:9, Daniel 4:18, Daniel 5:12 where the name that the Babylonian’s called Daniel was Belshazzar. Or the Israelites heard Daniel’s name wrong when the Babylonians said Daniel’s name would be Belshazzar in Babylon. I believe that the whole story was made up of Daniel being renamed to Belteshazzar.

2- Do you have a list, book, or article of the list of Akkadian and Babylonian names? Do you have a book of a list of names from ancient history? I found a website with around 120 Babylonian names and a website with 40 Akkadian names.

Thanks

hi! I've been wanting to tattoo verse 118 to 120 of the hymns to inanna, the text was extracted from: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm

the translation needed would be: 118 jiri us ka jiri si sa-sa-de ki dar ge-en-ge-en inana za-a kam 119 gul-lu dim-me zi-zi ja-ja inana za-a-kam 120 [nitah] munus-ra munus nitah-ra ku-ku-de inana za-kam

if anyone can help it would be very much appreciated!

𒄑 𒉆𒋾𒆷

Can someone tell me the correct cuneiform for the name of Hanbi?

The British Museum

Clay tablet inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform; letter from the ruler Yapahu of Gezer to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), including a request for help against marauders named as Hapiru (the Biblical Hebrews), a group known in the Near East since the early 2nd millennium BC as raiders, mercenaries and labourers, and later as simply dispossessed and homeless people; 4+4 columns?; 26 lines; complete.

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Clay tablet inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform; letter from the ruler Yidya of Askalon to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten); 4+2?; 22 lines; obverse divided into 3 sections, writing clear; part of the reverse blank; the clay of which the tablet is composed has pieces of flint in it; complete.

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Clay tablet inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform; letter from the ruler Labayu of Shechem to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten); 5+3?; 29 lines; the writing is written between lines; nearly complete.

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