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4R2 24, 2 (P394726)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 4R2 24, 2 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394726 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 23' | From the reed fence to the reed fence |
| 26' | May ditto... be reconciled. |
| 6' | he will pay back the money tenfold to its owners. He will not succeed. |
| 27' | from the... of the shipyard and calf, the father who had engendered it, |
| 9' | When he had entered the Ekur, when he had put ebony |
| 20' | he took a house of advice and advice. |
| 19' | When you have sworn by the name of Eagunam |
| 2' | ... they are seated... |
| 17' | Enlilzi, the one who sat on the throne, |
| 24' | ... a captive in.... |
| 3' | In the Ekur, a place that cannot be shaken, a place that cannot be shaken, |
| 12' | from the strong Ekur they have snatched? together |
| 1' | from PN2 to PN2 |
| 10' | When he enters the Ekur, |
| 25' | from the Gashanda x x x |
| 29' | from the supreme shrine(?) of the supreme temple he smote |
| 28' | .............. |
| 5' | If he does not open his door and does not open his door |
| 7' | When he had said “Arali, the unceasing one, and the unceasing one |
| 14' | The great mother, ditto, in her cultic rites he... |
| 22' | he will burn the house in anqullu-vessel. |
| 4' | to the Ekur, where he does not have, |
| 18' | he heaped up for Enlil-zi, and he set up a shrine. |
| 21' | from the Eburuua (temple), the fire-jedena (temple), |
| 8' | ditto, wherever I did not see, |
| 13' | The great mother Ninlil... from the holy dais |
| 16' | (As for) ditto (and) my lord said |
| 15' | After Nuska had spoken to my king |
| 11' | After he had brought out the pure Ekur |
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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