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BL 041 (P394953)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 041 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394953 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 9 | My suckling child, who does not eat food(?) |
| reverse 6 | I am the mother of Damgalnuna, so that my son does not sleep. |
| reverse 2 | From the threshing floor of the mountain I went up. |
| reverse 5 | I am Amagan, I am the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the child of my child, |
| reverse 12 | May my supplications and my supplications not be removed from me. |
| reverse 4 | May my... not be smitten with me |
| reverse 13 | My reed bed that stands at the threshing floor(?), my scream(?) does not satisfy me |
| reverse 10 | My bread from a bowl is not to be eaten(?), my child |
| reverse 3 | When the lord has chosen him, he will recover. |
| reverse 1 | From the Euphrates when it comes, it is ruined, and |
| reverse 11 | Do not eat food(?), do not eat my food(?), do not eat my child |
| reverse 8 | Do not let her enter her mother's house. |
| reverse 7 | Do not abandon me, do not abandon me, do not abandon my child |
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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