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BL 200 (P394960)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 200 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394960 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 15' | Dumuzi, who reveres him, |
| obverse 10' | Dumuzi-Ertura |
| obverse 17' | ... milk |
| obverse 12' | ... sweet milk |
| obverse 7' | My lady, what you have done? |
| reverse 4 | like a ilam creature |
| obverse 13' | lord of the divine powers, the wild bull of Dumuzi, whose utterance is pure |
| obverse 3' | the lord of Dusubake |
| obverse 14' | ... he raised up a man's head with a... fearsomeness. |
| obverse 1' | esheshu-disease |
| obverse 4' | the lord of Dr-Tibira |
| reverse 1 | who carries fearsomeness and fearsomeness |
| obverse 2' | sage of the arali |
| obverse 6' | the lord of the kakka rites |
| reverse 3 | like a snare..., |
| reverse 6 | ...... |
| reverse 5 | the city |
| obverse 9' | the wife of a bitter wife |
| obverse 5' | the lord of the Emu temple |
| reverse 2 | ... like a bull |
| obverse 11' | ... flour/incense-offerings |
| reverse 7 | ...... |
| obverse 8' | the spouse of the shepherd |
| obverse 16' | You do not kill a slanderer or a slanderer. |
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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