Catalogue of laments and prayers (K 2529)

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Nineveh tablet listing the incipits of balaĝ and eršemma laments with a total for each god. The machine English garbles the totals (e.g. “total: 39th year of Enlil” for a count of 39 compositions).

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Designation	K.2529
Museum no.	K.2529
Collection	Kuyunjik
Language	Akkadian; Sumerian
Period	Neo-Assyrian
Genre	CANONICAL > Catalogues > Kalûtu catalogue; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Kalûtu Catalogue; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal)
Provenience	Nineveh
Findspot	36.3582, 43.1621
CDLI no.	P357084
Source	electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified
Lines	177 (177 with machine English)

Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.

The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.

Line	English (machine draft)
1	esoteric rituals and esoteric rituals
2	The Abzu is pure and Dilmun is pure
3	City, the lamentation-priestess, and the deep heart of your heart
4	like a cattlepen, a nest of oxen,
5	like Utu, from east to west, the lord who is firmly in agreement
6	When the day reaches the earth, the seed of the holy dais
7	the wild bull and hero from the Abzu
8	awe-inspiring brilliance, awe-inspiring brilliance
9	his prayer, the god, the god and the brickwork of the Ekur
10	Who destroyed heaven and earth?
11	the one who fashioned wine and lustration rituals for me
12	the city of the evil of Gula... the true temple
13	You are the one who eats the oxen
14	esoteric rites for the dais of heaven and earth, master of oxen and sheep and goats
15	the reign of the god Ashur
16	Zibum, Zibum, and Enlil
17	The waters of the sea are sprinkling, the storm which Enlil grew.
18	His... is not known, his... is not known.
19	The waters of the sea are full of famine.
20	The waters of my Abzu, the waters of the sea, the water of the sea, the water of the sea, the water of the sea
21	Do not abandon your en priest(ess)
22	Lord of heaven and earth, and Dilmun are full of splendor
23	which is like a uum creature adorned with a radiance of Marduk
24	for Utu of the Ekur temple, lord of the holy crown
25	ama is king and ama will come out.
26	when he was to speak to the great bull
27	The storm that destroys the Ekur temple and the land
28	like a uum creature adorned with awe
29	mighty one, whose city is exalted
30	from the assembly the decision, the hero, the dream-interpreter,
31	a kind of ox or a kind of ox or a kind of ox
32	great flood, mighty flood, great hero
33	like a cattlepen, it is full of...
34	Do not abandon me like Utu!
35	When the earth reaches the earth,
36	(As for) the wild bulls in his sheepfold
37	lord of the scepter of heaven and earth
38	high quality oxen in the Ekur
39	the cattlepen is evil
40	who makes perfect the divine powers and divine powers,
41	total: 39th year of Enlil.
42	... water of the Eanna temple, pure water of the gipar canal
43	to go out from the house
44	The city is a lion
45	When he hears, he shouts: “My lady,
46	the lady of my house
47	“Alas, my city!”
48	esheshu-disease of the land
49	a reed fence
50	the city of ula
51	of the steppe, the uagga shrine
52	he is a reed marsh of the black-headed
53	young man, who weeps
54	Amagan of all the lands
55	......
56	... is a weapon, it is very overcast
57	evil-doer
58	like a cow in a cattlepen
59	barley of the house
60	Total: 18. The reign of Itar.
61	eremma-offerings (and) eremma-offerings
62	The city, the lamentation priest, has destroyed it
63	the king came out
64	hero of the city
65	he has given
66	mighty one
67	who enters the city
68	who reveres the city
69	he entrusted to him
70	from the E-abzu
71	from the midst of the house
72	hero of ama
73	the hero who came out
74	you are supreme
75	you are supreme
76	from above
77	the great hero who raises his cosmic powers
78	whose divine powers are entrusted to me,
79	The great hero, his divine powers are supreme,
80	which destroys the lands
81	he is a gkkullammalu priestess of Enlil
82	in Dilmun
83	the great mountain, father Enlil
84	he put in order.
85	his case
86	from the builder's house
87	exalted prince design of heaven and earth
88	of his foes
89	from the great lady of Ke
90	the gods
91	The wild bull has no rival
92	Your father, chosen in the plain
93	who approached the princess
94	theegis of the city of the lamentation priest
95	the gods
96	he heaped up in heaven.
97	to your lady's house
98	with a finger
99	may his heart rejoice over him.
100	exalted princess of Aruru
101	exalted princess of heaven and earth
102	Total: 40 reeds.
103	uillakku-offerings of the gods
104	the hero of the gods of Anu
105	the great gods of heaven and earth
106	en priestess you go
107	the elum priest of heaven and earth
108	the lord of the lamentation priests of heaven and earth
109	the city whose name is ulgi ulgi ulgi
110	the lord of wisdom and wisdom, of the god Sîn
111	... I am the scribe of the sun.
112	ama
113	the hero(?) of the flood and flood
114	who enters the house,
115	warrior of the city urur and Marduk
116	the one who enters the house
117	the hero, the great flood, the flood of Marduk
118	... of MAR.TU(?)
119	of the god
120	of
121	of
122	of
123	of Ninurta
124	of Ninurta
125	of the god Ninurta
126	of Ninurta
127	of Ninurta
128	of the god Ninurta
129	of Nergal
130	of the god Papsukkal
131	of the scribal art
132	of Nuska
133	of Nuska
134	of Dumuzi
135	of Dumuzi
136	lady of all the lands of Ninlil
137	of the god Ilu
138	of Ningal
139	e-gaanu-offering of the food offerings of ditto
140	exalted lady with a furious ear
141	who provides food for the goddess Itar
142	exalted princess, lady of heaven and earth
143	the lady, the one who makes the holy rites pleasing to the goddess Itar
144	of the lady of the assembly
145	the princess with great fearsomeness and great fearsomeness that Itar
146	lady of the mountain range
147	lady of all the lands
148	the lady of the light sat down.
149	princely princess, lady of heaven and earth
150	lady of heaven and earth, who Nanaya
151	total: 47 uillakku-measures.
152	The inscriptions (and) omens of the namgnu-priestess which are written in the hands of the scribe.
153	I am not afraid, I am not afraid.
154	.... may... be repaid.
155	To Nabû, the perfect heir, who controls all the heavens and earth
156	The one who grasps the reed mat, the tablet of fates,
157	Who restores the days, who restores the dead
158	Who provides light to the people,
159	Incantation: great lord, his lord: Assurnasirpal, prince, favorite of Aur, Bel, Nabû
160	Who provides for the shrines of the great gods, who establishes their sattukku offerings
161	Tablet of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria.
162	(Property of) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria
163	For his life, he will be long, his days will be long, his seed will be long.
164	the foundation of the throne of his kingship
165	His supplications, his utterances,
166	'Let him appoint him to his hands.'
167	Ea, the great crown, the sage,
168	who is attentive to the wrath of the great gods
169	According to the wording of tablets, copies of Assyria and Akkad
170	I wrote and collated it in tablets.
171	on the bank of the Ezida, the temple of Nabû
172	which is inside Nineveh, my lord, I established.
173	On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and earth
174	It is a guarantor. I looked with pleasure upon this.
175	(Property) of Assurbanipal, the shepherd who reveres your divinity, daily
176	At the opening of the takribtu-vessel, you speak as follows:
177	Let me praise your great divinity!