Old Babylonian oracle

The Old Babylonian oracle is a Sumerian myth, written on clay tablets dated to between 2340 and 2200 BC.

The myth was discovered on the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, catalogue of the Babylonian section (CBS), tablet number 8322 from their excavations at the temple library at Nippur.

[1] Barton suggests the text is difficult and enigmatic, he confesses the interpretation put forward is uncertain and with great reserve.

He suggests that it describes an oracle given by a seer for a priest called "Allu-Kal" who wished to rebuild dwellings or a temple of cedar wood.

Barton suggests Enlil then appears and takes Enki's axe, presumably to chop cedars for the building he proceeds to guard.