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BL 158 (P394891)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 158 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394891 |
| 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 15 | the land of Damascus and the water he brought. |
| reverse 4' | Who does not have a womb, who does not come out together |
| obverse 5 | iddu, the entire world |
| obverse 9 | ... the wording of a supplication... |
| reverse 2' | In the midst of the midst of the midst of the lands, he smote me |
| obverse 11 | The words which he spoke in his praise |
| reverse 10' | um-egal wrote a letter and wrote... |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 10 | When he had spoken to him, |
| obverse 8 | When he is to be sated at the earth |
| reverse 9' | Nabû-umu-iddina, son of Sîn and king, son of Ir-Ea |
| obverse 3 | water... |
| obverse 19 | stationed in the steppe, steppe |
| obverse 14 | I, Muebbasa |
| obverse 13 | he captured the daughter of Zarpanitu. |
| obverse 2 | The day of the naru's... |
| obverse 12 | when the lord of Papnunna |
| reverse 3' | She sat in the womb, she sat in the womb |
| obverse 18 | ... in battle the troops in his hand... |
| obverse 16 | large floods...... |
| obverse 17 | The divine powers have been carried off to the hand. |
| obverse 7 | The wordings that are greater than the heavens, |
| obverse 21 | at the steppe stationed |
| obverse 4 | esoteric ritual of Muebbasa |
| reverse 8' | of the house of um-egalli, chief... of Esagila. |
| obverse 1 | The water of his heart, the water of his heart |
| obverse 20 | ... a young man, when he goes... |
| obverse 6 | The smiter of heaven and earth smote him. |
| reverse 7' | According to the wording of a tree, the inscription of Babylon |
| obverse 22 | ... in the dawn, wherever you go... |
| reverse 6' | a requital of wisdom, a decision, |
| reverse 5' | The mighty woman, the one who destroys the rebel land |
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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