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BL 011 + 198 (P394657)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 011 + 198 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394657 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 17 | he has given to me. |
| reverse 7' | I want to say to you: “Why did you not go out to the house?” |
| obverse 31 | She was lamenting to the lady Eanna. |
| obverse 6 | The lady of the Egipar temple |
| reverse 1' | I want to say..., there is no one to say anything. |
| obverse 12 | to her city and to her city |
| reverse 14' | Like its old one, it is written and collated. |
| obverse 29 | to my Aratta temple, what is it that has not been returned? |
| reverse 3' | I want to say “What is my Ezida to me?” |
| obverse 5 | the destroyer of the mountain and lady of the Eanna temple |
| obverse 4 | the sick one of An and her lady |
| reverse 5' | I want to say “Alas, my righteous lord” (Amar-Suen 10) |
| obverse 13 | He is indeed his wife and child |
| reverse 4' | Who will cut off the debt that is known in my house? |
| reverse 2' | I want to say..., what is it that? |
| obverse 20 | The day he enters the pure house |
| obverse 22 | ... the pure house |
| obverse 28 | 'I am a widow...... |
| obverse 25 | which is...? |
| obverse 30 | What has he received from me? |
| reverse 9' | Its reed fence, its reed fence, does not stand |
| obverse 21 | When he lives in the Ekuga temple |
| obverse 1 | ... that he smote him and her... to her city... |
| reverse 15' | The land of Assurbanipal, king of the world, the land of Assyria |
| obverse 7 | heaven and earth,..., |
| obverse 26 | What...? |
| obverse 10 | of Nanaya and the son of the head of the house |
| obverse 14 | to her husband and to her husband |
| obverse 9 | the mother of the house and Dada, the beautiful woman |
| reverse 8' | I want to speak to you about the Eturkalama temple, why did you not go out to the temple? |
| obverse 16 | When you have established the midst of the storm |
| obverse 3 | He shouted at me, he was indeed the reed of his city |
| reverse 12' | The me of a dog and the me of a thief |
| obverse 19 | When he comes to the holy temple |
| reverse 13' | The city Ammirrabi is an empty wind. |
| obverse 15 | ... he heaped up its oil on the day. |
| obverse 23 | the lady of the holy temple... from the zenith |
| obverse 24 | ... to the pure house, the pure house... |
| reverse 10' | The word of him who stood before him did not stand. |
| obverse 11 | He is indeed his city and his temple |
| obverse 18 | ... he will pay. |
| obverse 2 | He roared, he was indeed the reed of his city |
| obverse 8 | lady..., lady of the door of the netherworld |
| obverse 32 | I am the lady of the Eanna temple. |
| obverse 27 | I am the one who...s fearsomeness |
| reverse 11' | He did not stand (there) and did not stand (there) and did not stand (there) at all. To the house |
| reverse 6' | I want to speak to the Eanna temple, what has he done? |
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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