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BL 137 (P394980)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394980 |
| 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 11 | who knows |
| reverse 10 | eeeu-priest |
| reverse 12 | eeeu-priest |
| reverse 8 | eeeu-priest |
| obverse 5' | wife(?) of the herder and child of the herder |
| reverse 5 | who knows the heart of the great mountain, father Enlil |
| reverse 4 | of Enlil |
| obverse 3' | Nippur... my heaven and earth |
| reverse 9 | who knows |
| reverse 2 | In its midst a pure and pure dwelling |
| reverse 1 | Who knows the midst of heaven and earth |
| obverse 1' | the temple |
| obverse 2' | pure reed |
| obverse 4' | year: “The lamentation priest and the reed priestess |
| reverse 7 | the heart of Asalluhi |
| reverse 13 | may he say to you |
| reverse 3 | the midst of heaven and earth, |
| obverse 6' | Who knows the midst of heaven and earth |
| reverse 6 | of the heart of Enki |
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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