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BL 142 + 167 (P394673)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 142 + 167 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394673 |
| 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 27' | so that Enlil does not cross over his mouth |
| reverse 42 | My city and its midst have been ruined. |
| reverse 46 | ... the divine powers have been set aside, the divine powers have been set aside |
| reverse 20 | The mother of the house and mother of Esagil |
| reverse 45 | weeps |
| obverse 11' | If a young child says “My son!” |
| reverse 61 | (As for) the one who rises like ama, it is not finished(?) |
| reverse 53 | he smote the shepherd behind him. |
| obverse 16' | The small one is going out, the great one is going out |
| reverse 31 | The brickwork of Sippar is weeping from the house. |
| obverse 30' | the Ki'ur temple, the great place, |
| obverse 42' | When he is a musztugana equid, he is full of allure |
| reverse 49 | The kurku shrine is a pure irku shrine. |
| reverse 50 | She weeps the lament of lamentation |
| obverse 6' | of Babylon, whose water is poured from your marshes |
| reverse 48 | The holy rites of the mountain are perfected |
| reverse 58 | The lamentation singer went out from the house and weeps. |
| obverse 24' | the eshelum priest and en priest of the lands |
| obverse 17' | Nippur, he is a young man, he is a great man |
| obverse 40' | the Edara'ana temple |
| obverse 18' | In Babylon, it is a small cultic area, it is a great cultic area |
| reverse 34 | The brickwork of Esagila, from the house, is weeping |
| obverse 23' | The fowler raised his neck in the mountain of his lap |
| reverse 1 | he poured water on the river. |
| reverse 19 | Princess of my city, lady of Babylon |
| obverse 5' | Your city, the water of your irrigated land |
| obverse 31' | the shrine Enamtila |
| reverse 3 | He looked at the black-headed people in the plain and in their seed. |
| obverse 13' | The city of my mother and my son speak |
| obverse 21' | It is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it is (the case that) it |
| obverse 8' | The city that has been cut off and its lala reeds |
| reverse 18 | The princess goes out from the house and weeps. |
| reverse 57 | ... he... for you and inside it. |
| obverse 41' | The lord(?) of the midst of heaven and earth(?) is full of splendor |
| obverse 29' | the brickwork of his Ekur temple he built. |
| reverse 13 | The lords have destroyed the true temple, and they have made the people rejoice. |
| reverse 44 | I am its lady, he has made awe in its midst. |
| reverse 17 | Lady of the Ekur temple, you have gone out from the house, you have not destroyed it |
| obverse 38' | he has built a great temple |
| reverse 41 | he established for him. My house and its interior he established. |
| reverse 59 | My enemy's son, the wife of a single month has slain, she does not destroy her |
| obverse 26' | to do obeisance to him |
| reverse 52 | he swore to me as if it were a dream. |
| obverse 28' | in his city Nippur he heaped up. |
| reverse 6 | his great sister and lady of the Emah temple |
| obverse 36' | the brickwork of the wall of Sibba |
| reverse 51 | he says to the father and father: |
| reverse 27 | My city, Nippur, weeps from the house. |
| reverse 43 | The divine powers of my house... in their midst. |
| reverse 11 | he poured water on the fish. |
| obverse 12' | My maid, my brother, he says |
| reverse 47 | Its seven rites are a delight. |
| obverse 3 | So that the lord of all the lands makes the utensils flourish, so that the utensils of your city flourish, so that the utensils of your city flourish |
| reverse 39 | The endu priests of the marshes do not destroy the weeping(?) |
| reverse 16 | The balagdi drums from the house are weeping |
| obverse 2 | So that the city Dilmun is surrounded by a stupor: I want to eat your city |
| reverse 26 | the great princess, my lady Nanaya, |
| obverse 35' | brickwork of Esagila |
| reverse 56 | ... wept in its midst |
| obverse 39' | Etemenanki |
| reverse 55 | The lament of the lamentation singer, the lament of the lamentation singer, the lament of the heart |
| reverse 37 | The Emahtila, the house, is not destroyed : the house, the house, is not destroyed : |
| reverse 62 | Written and checked according to its original. |
| obverse 22' | whose limbs are unreliable |
| obverse 14' | My little child, my father says: |
| obverse 19' | Its thin horns are a dog. |
| obverse 43' | Its mushtug creature is indeed a snake |
| reverse 14 | Father Enlil, you have given advice, you have given advice |
| reverse 22 | the righteous princess and lady who sits on the dais |
| reverse 35 | barley rations of Dur-Sibba, from the house of Maragagen, wept |
| reverse 12 | he sat down, and the birds he washed |
| reverse 4 | His wife sings(?) a song, and the god speaks to him |
| obverse 4' | sippar rations of water from your groats |
| reverse 38 | Weeping from the Edara'ana temple |
| reverse 33 | The brickwork of Tintir, the house, is weeping |
| reverse 15 | He goes out from the house and does not destroy the weeping |
| obverse 32' | brick-built Sippar |
| reverse 32 | Shrine, white house, go out from the house, weeps |
| obverse 2' | Nippur, water that is poured from your marshes |
| obverse 33' | the shrine Ebabbarana |
| obverse 7' | Your city, the water of your irrigated land |
| reverse 5 | of Enlil and his wife Ninlil |
| obverse 37' | brickwork of Ezida-x |
| reverse 30 | She weeps from the shrine Enamtila to the house. |
| reverse 40 | in its midst he smote |
| reverse 21 | O my lady, Pa-nun-ki-gen |
| reverse 7 | The holy shrine of Nippur he spoke to him |
| reverse 28 | Brickwork of the Ekur, weeps from the house, |
| reverse 10 | By the command of the righteous master, you have given your supplication |
| obverse 20' | Its top and top he has seized. |
| reverse 23 | Egia and son of Ura-agn |
| reverse 2 | He made the grass grow in the plain. |
| reverse 24 | son of Ea and son of E-ibbi-Anum-gen |
| obverse 1' | Your city, the water of your own water |
| obverse 10' | The young wife and my wife speak |
| obverse 3' | Your city that irrigates the water |
| reverse 29 | Weeping from the Ki'ur, the great place, |
| obverse 44' | he entrusted it to me in the land of Nanna. |
| obverse 9' | (As for) the one who eats the ox, the one who eats the ox, and the day after you have passed |
| reverse 60 | He poured water, he poured water. |
| reverse 25 | the righteous princess, the lady of battle, |
| reverse 8 | The fowler(s) gave you your fowler |
| reverse 9 | Enlil gave me the kakkazû-rites. |
| obverse 15' | standing at the bitumen, orchards |
| obverse 1 | I want to... Dilmun, your city, to be awe-inspiring |
| obverse 34' | the brickwork of Babylon |
| obverse 25' | The lord of all the lands, the utterance of the righteous |
| reverse 36 | Brickwork of Ezida, from the house weeps, |
| reverse 63 | ... Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria |
| reverse 54 | My house... weeping like the plain |
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- 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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