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BL 177 (P394672)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 177 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394672 |
| 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 19' | When you speak to your greatness, the faithful ewe has fallen into the lamb |
| reverse 40' | Its... is a waste land. |
| obverse 20' | When you speak to your great deeds, the righteous uzga creature fell into its kid |
| reverse 12' | The storm, the storm, the storm of heaven, Enlil |
| reverse 16' | The fate of my righteous city is destroyed |
| reverse 6' | shrine Ebabbar, temple of the Judge of the Land |
| obverse 37' | Your city Tintir has been destroyed, you have been praised. |
| reverse 38' | ... eats |
| reverse 1' | the righteousegis of the Lady-of-Gutes-asiga |
| obverse 17' | When you speak to An, he enters heaven |
| obverse 34' | The brickwork(?) of the Ekur temple has been destroyed, the utensils have been uttered(?) |
| obverse 14' | Edara'ana |
| obverse 26' | ...... |
| reverse 15' | the fate of my righteous house is destroyed |
| reverse 22' | He raises the..., he raises the horizon |
| reverse 3' | My city, from Nippur I have gathered the dogs. |
| obverse 36' | Sippar, the Ebabbar temple, which has been destroyed and has been ruined, |
| obverse 46' | The goats, the right goats, should not be cut off |
| obverse 3' | When you go to Nippur |
| reverse 5' | from the brick-built Sippar dog |
| obverse 4' | to the brickwork of the Ekur temple |
| reverse 39' | In the steppe, in the steppe, in the steppe, in the morning, |
| reverse 17' | he has decreed the fates of my house |
| reverse 4' | from the barley rations of the Ekur temple to the Ki’ur temple of the Enamtila temple |
| obverse 35' | The foundation of the Enamtila temple has been destroyed, it has been ruined. |
| obverse 12' | the Emahtila temple |
| obverse 5' | to the Ki-ur and the Ki-gal of your choice |
| reverse 2' | the princely princess, my lady Nanaya |
| obverse 1' | As for you, as for you, the water of your house, as for you, |
| obverse 47' | He finished his work on the one who has a strong heart |
| reverse 35' | he is a lion, he does not have power. |
| obverse 28' | The holy... of the city is a god. |
| reverse 11' | brickwork of Etemenki, shrine Edarana |
| reverse 25' | I am not finished, I am not finished. |
| obverse 43' | ebony in a place of abundance |
| reverse 36' | Theegig priestess of my mother does not eat food |
| reverse 30' | She is the lady, she is the one who enters the city. |
| reverse 34' | The house of the kuktin priestess of my birth mother |
| reverse 32' | fisherman of the marshes went to the boat |
| obverse 18' | When you speak to the earth, when you enter into the earth |
| reverse 18' | he has gone to heaven, but he does not know |
| obverse 31' | The... of your city has been destroyed, you have been praised. |
| reverse 31' | the shrine Dilmun, a abandoned boat, |
| reverse 26' | I am not finished with my wife, I am not finished with my child |
| obverse 27' | ... my wife and children... day |
| obverse 2' | By your command, by your command, the ewe of the house by your command |
| obverse 42' | Your ibbi-zu prayer is unceasing, |
| reverse 27' | weeps, weeps |
| obverse 30' | ... who destroys the water, who speaks... |
| obverse 33' | In(?) your city, Nippur, which has been destroyed, awe-inspiring radiance... |
| obverse 13' | of Etemenki |
| obverse 41' | who destroys the Edara temple, |
| reverse 24' | It is the hand of..., the bitter divine powers |
| reverse 23' | ... like a donkey of the steppe... |
| obverse 15' | to your utterance, heaven will be heaped up |
| reverse 21' | The one who... on the earth |
| obverse 44' | who seeks a lawsuit or litigation |
| reverse 28' | the bitter oxen, the day passed, |
| obverse 32' | Father Enlil, your city has been destroyed, you have been praised(?) |
| reverse 8' | brickwork of Esagila, shrine Tl-kalam |
| reverse 14' | In order to destroy the storm, Enlil |
| obverse 21' | he abandoned Amagan on the right side of his son |
| reverse 10' | from the brickwork of Ezida to the shrine Ematila |
| reverse 7' | from the brick-course of Babylon he inspected. |
| reverse 9' | from the outskirts of Dr-Sibba he inspected. |
| obverse 29' | ... Enlil, the holy month, the pure one, is the god |
| reverse 29' | The cattle pens and the calf are endless |
| obverse 11' | Ezida temple |
| obverse 40' | who destroys the E-temenanki, |
| obverse 16' | to resound the praises of Enlil |
| reverse 20' | ... the excess heavens |
| obverse 38' | The Esagil temple of Dur-Sibba, which had been destroyed and had been ruined, |
| reverse 13' | The storm, the womb of the great heavens |
| obverse 22' | ...... |
| reverse 19' | he did not stand at the ground. |
| reverse 37' | He has sworn by means of his words that he has not spoken to him |
| obverse 45' | The ewes of the righteous lamb have been brought to an end |
| reverse 33' | The dogs of my city, the dogs of my street, |
| obverse 39' | The temple Ezida, the Emahtila temple, which has been destroyed for a long time |
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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