A lovers' dialogue (K 6606)
Neo-Assyrian love-lyric fragment from Nineveh.
View at electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · CDLI P396674 · Try the in-browser translator
| Designation | K.6606 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | K.6606 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Monologue and dialogue > Love |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P396674 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 67 (64 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 1' | |
| 1' | |
| 2' | |
| 3' | ... bread |
| 4' | (If) ditto |
| 5' | ... bread |
| 6' | The first-class beer... |
| 7' | Bel, who has sinned |
| 8' | The one who is not..., the one who is not |
| 9' | Come,... |
| 10' | May he go out... |
| 11' | Your mouth... |
| 12' | Whoever in the future,... |
| 13' | My brother, in the seed of the land... |
| 14' | which you recite in my heart... |
| 15' | Your feet to the wagon(?) |
| 16' | That which in it |
| 17' | ...... |
| reverse col 2' | |
| 1' | ...... |
| 2' | ... plant... |
| 3' | ... unceasing one |
| 4' | ... my face... |
| 5' | ... like alabaster |
| 6' | ... like gold |
| 7' | ... he caused to die |
| 8' | ... to guard the city |
| 9' | ... of the land I marched. |
| 10' | ... to the house |
| 11' | ... your... may... be reconciled. |
| 12' | ... I have entrusted you. |
| 13' | ... I have entrusted to you. |
| 14' | ..... does not exist. |
| 15' | ... he will not give |
| 16' | ... his... for the loss |
| 17' | ... did not enter the house(?) |
| 18' | ... not(?) |
| 19' | my... |
| 20' | ... |
| 21' | who... |
| 22' | ... her |
| 23' | ...... you destroy... |
| 24' | son of Bntu, the land(?)... went |
| 25' | lapis lazuli that |
| 26' | Who is your name? Who is it that you have given to me? |
| 27' | I have heard that I have said to you, |
| 28' | From the rising of the sun to the rising of the foot |
| 29' | The ironsmith's bow to your yoke |
| 30' | ... fearsomeness,... |
| 31' | ... my... |
| 32' | ... the silversmith |
| reverse col 3' | |
| 1' | ... in(?) its heart |
| 2' | My heart... the boat(?) |
| 3' | I approached, and to the boat |
| 4' | The aratu-disease to Babylon |
| 5' | The one who digs the canal(s) of the ginugal canal |
| 6' | he smote a man, he smote a man, |
| 7' | who the watercourse of the raqqatu canal irrigates, |
| 8' | to the ground, and to the quay |
| 9' | of the merciful lord Marduk |
| 10' | in the front of his house, the reed mat of the lady of the halo |
| 11' | I went up to the quay and stood there. |
| 12' | I prayed, and I spoke to the man of Bb-Bb-Bb-Bb-Bb-Bb-Bb-Bb-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt-Bt- |
| 13' | king of kings, man of Babylon |
| 14' | Nabu came to Babylon and |
| 15' | Your fingernail of the iatu-tax |
| 16' | Nabonidus to Babylon |
| 17' | Its rib(?) |
| 18' | |