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OECT 06, p. 15-17, K 05098 (P384986)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | OECT 06, p. 15-17, K 05098 |
|---|---|
| ID | P384986 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal) |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4' | ... may they rejoice over you. |
| reverse 6' | ... from the mountain unrivaled Enlil to the House of Succession... the Akitu temple, the House of Succession... his......... in his place of relaxation the Ekur and the House of Succession... may your heart rejoice over you. |
| obverse 12' | (If) ditto he is well, he is well, he is well, he is well, he is well, he is well, he is well. |
| obverse 5' | Like the wild bulls living in all the lands |
| reverse 3' | May heaven and earth rejoice over you |
| reverse 2' | ... may heaven and earth rejoice over you. |
| obverse 10' | Like a snare of the heavens, a snare of snare, |
| obverse 3' | The great mountain of Enlil, whose neck is adorned with heaven and earth, its holy Apsu, its foundations, its foundations, its foundations, |
| obverse 7' | like the horns of a lion's horn |
| reverse 9' | May he bring the supreme... to you. |
| reverse 1 | May heaven and earth rejoice over you. |
| reverse 5' | From the... of the unsubmissive mountain of Enlil to the shrine of Nippur... the Akitu temple, his place of relaxation... the great orchard whose appearance is pure, the... festival of abundance... the Ekur of Nippur, the abode of its brackish rites may he rejoice over you. |
| reverse 8' | ... your residence of relaxation, in your presence. |
| obverse 4' | Greatly ditto, ama, urau-demon, whose head is full of radiance, whose apsû-demon is full of radiance, |
| obverse 8' | his hero like a ama-iddin |
| reverse 15' | ... rejoicing |
| reverse 13' | May your supplication |
| reverse 12' | ... may he command you. |
| obverse 6' | In all the lands, like a wild bull, there is a famine. |
| reverse 11' | may he make offerings for you |
| obverse 2' | Who determines the destinies for the mention of his pure name, who like the heavens the great Igigi utters, the black-headed (people) shall raise. |
| obverse 11' | the great mother Ninlil, the one who loves the E-ara, the allure of the E-kur, the spouse of the Giguna temple, theegis of the E-ki-ur temple |
| reverse 10' | ... exalted... may he speak to you. |
| reverse 14' | .... may he command that... |
| obverse 1' | When you have chosen the fates, as you have chosen your holy supplications, the Nungales have sworn by the hand of Aran-ma(l)le. |
| reverse 7' | When you sit in your residence of relaxation |
| obverse 9' | like a star of heaven standing alone in a wall |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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