BA 02, 634 (P336128)
Literary Work, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 02, 634 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336128 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Literary Work |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa03 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Why are you cast adrift like a boat in midstream, your crossbars broken, your tows cut; your face veiled, you cross the river of the Inner City? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | How could I not be cast adrift, how could my tows not be cut! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | On the day I bore fruit, how happy I was! Happy was I, happy my husband. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | On the day of my labor pains, my face was overcast; on the day I gave birth, my eyes were clouded; |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | My hands were opened (in supplication), as I prayed to Belet-ili: You are the mother of those who give birth, save my life! |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | When Belet-ili heard this, she veiled her face: You [......], why do you keep praying to me? |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313– | [My husband, who ...], cried out: [Do not ...] me, my charming wife! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] over years |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] of earth (full) of misdeeds |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [......] you used to go to the Inner City, you screamed in woe. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | [Ever since] those days, (when) I was with my husband, (as) I lived with him, who was my lover, death slunk stealthily into my bedroom. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | It brought me out of my home, it separated me from my husband, and set my feet toward a land from which I shall not return. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-na mi₃-i-ni ki-i {giš}MA₂-e ina MURUB₄ ID₂-e na-da-ki | |
| 2 | šab-bu-ru hu-qi-ki-i ba-tu-qu aš₂-li-ki | |
| 3 | ka-lu-lu pa-ni-ki-i ID₂ {uru}ŠA₃—URU te-bi-ri | |
| 4 | a-ke-e la na-da-ku-u₂ la ba-tu-qu aš₂-li-ia₂ | |
| 5 | ina UD-me in-bu aš₂-šu-u-ni a-ke-e ha-da-ka a-na-ku | |
| 6 | ha-da-ak a-na-ku-u₂ ha-di ha-bi-ri-i | |
| 7 | ina UD-me hi-lu-ia-a e-tar-pu-u pa-ni-ia | |
| 8 | ina UD-me u₂-la-di-ia it-ta-ak-ri-ma IGI.2-ia | |
| 9 | pa-ta-ni up-na-ia-a a-na {d}be-lit—DINGIR u₂-ṣal-la | |
| 10 | um-mu a-li-da-te at-ti-i e-ṭi-ri-i na-pu-ul-ti | |
| 11 | {⸢d}be-lit⸣—DINGIR-⸢MEŠ ki-i ta⸣-aš₂-mu-ni tuk-tal-li-la pa-ni-ša₂ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x] at-ti-i a-na mi₃-ni tu-ṣa-na-li-ni | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x]-⸢mu⸣-u-ni it-ti-di-i ri-ga-an-šu₂ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]-ni aš₂-šat la-li-ia-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] ša du-ur MU.AN.NA-MEŠ-e | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x]-da-a kaq-qar hi-bi-la-te | |
| 3 | [x x x x x {uru]}ŠA₃—URU tal-lak ta-si-si-i nu-bu-u | |
| 4 | [x x x x] UD-MEŠ an-nu-te TA@v ha-bi-ri-ia a-na-ku | |
| 5 | is-si-šu₂ aš₂-ba-ku-u₂ ša ra-i-ma-ni-ia | |
| 6 | mu-u-tu₂ ina E₂—KI.NA₂-ia ih-lu-la-a hi-il-lu-tu₂ | |
| 7 | TA@v E₂-ti-ia-a us-se-ṣa-an-ni a.a-ši | |
| 8 | TA@v pa-an ha-bi-ri-ia ip-tar-sa-an-ni a.a-ši | |
| 9 | GIR₃.2-ia is-sa-ka-na ina kaq-qar la ⸢ta-a.a-ar⸣-ti-ia₂ | |
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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