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Bilingual lament with tigi song (K 5167)
Sumerian–Akkadian lament (Uruk) mentioning the tigi song.
View at electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · CDLI P238370 · Try the in-browser translator
| Designation | K.5167 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.5167 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations |
| Provenience | Uruk |
| Findspot | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
| CDLI no. | P238370 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 77 (77 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) |
|---|---|
| top | |
| 1 | ... my supplications,... |
| top col 1 | |
| 1 | O ewe, my fate is decreed, my fate is decreed. |
| 2 | the fates of my father that cannot be determined |
| 3 | ... the fate of my father... |
| 4 | the beloved of An, which cannot be altered |
| 5 | and destinies of the great Anu |
| 6 | the beloved of Enlil |
| 7 | When I have ordered the fates, when I have ordered the future |
| 8 | The aromatics that the father of the land did not |
| 9 | My utterances, my heart's desire, my father's heart's desire |
| 10 | (If) he... a new break(?): he will recover; he will recover. |
| 11 | My eyes are smitten(?) with my nose(?) |
| 12 | ... in the presence of my fate and my nose... |
| 13 | eu-priest (and) eu-priest (for kingship) |
| 14 | who like a tree has been made to grow, |
| 15 | I conquered the mounds. |
| 16 | The one who shouts at me, my fate |
| 17 | ...... |
| 18 | When you speak to the house of the man |
| 19 | What is it that he has done to my house? |
| 20 | Who is it, who is the house of the elum priest, who is the house of the elum priest |
| 21 | (Property) of a new break(?), what is the debt(?) of ditto |
| 22 | The city fell into bitter ruins from the street. |
| 23 | What is it of my city that is to be abandoned? What is it of my city that is to be abandoned? |
| 24 | When you speak to the mother |
| 25 | ... my awe-inspiring radiance and fear, what is it that is with me? |
| 26 | (Saying) “It is the enemy, the one who shouts at me” |
| 27 | my mother, at the shrine Eanna |
| 28 | ... my awe-inspiring brilliance... the house. |
| 29 | ... Duranki |
| 30 | the seven gipar offerings |
| 31 | ...... a reed mat, ditto. |
| 32 | and the divine powers of my princeship |
| 33 | ... my princely rites |
| 34 | ... roaring at An |
| 35 | there was no house |
| 36 | ........ lord of the rites. |
| 37 | the lady |
| 38 | my lulû-demon |
| 39 | ...... |
| reverse col 3 | |
| 1' | ...... |
| 2' | The dog rejoices |
| 3' | ... the house that is filled with rejoicing |
| 4' | his young wife and his wife |
| 5' | Lady who stands by her spouse |
| 6' | The harp drum and the harp drum |
| 7' | ... in the thick of... merciful... |
| 8' | He rejoiced over the field |
| 9' | ... her barley and...... |
| 10' | the irrigated orchards of my heart |
| 11' | My house......... |
| 12' | my house of people and the Ebabbar temple |
| 13' | The fields of your groats in the city |
| 14' | My E-mara temple, like a storm, approached the city. |
| 15' | Ama-gan-gen |
| 16' | I am the perfect one, I am the great one of the netherworld |
| 17' | Great..., I |
| 18' | I am the great horn of the gods, the horn of the netherworld |
| reverse col 4 | |
| 1' | Like a Anzu bird, a temple with a fearsomeness(?) |
| 2' | 'Let me guard Anzaya in a house, let me be sated... |
| 3' | The naggala demon, the nagbura demon, will serve you with tigi. |
| 4' | All kinds of aromatics are present in the tigû-vessel. |
| 5' | Who can stand by it? |
| 6' | Who can stand by it? |
| 7' | He spoke to him daily: |
| 8' | He speaks the words of great An and its days. |
| 9' | He speaks the word of Enlil: |
| 10' | Its storm shouted at heaven and earth |
| 11' | to Enlil's utterance |
| 12' | you sweep heaven and earth. |
| 13' | the place where heaven is smashed, where earth is smashed |
| 14' | ... reeds |
| 15' | May the brickwork of the Eanna be returned to the ground. |
| 16' | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to Itar. |
| 17' | The second day: "Alas, my city." |
| 18' | Written and checked according to the original. |
| 19' | [Disregard that] Sîn-uballi, the a angû-priest |