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BA 05, 674-675 (P395041)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 674-675 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395041 |
| 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 6 | son of Alla, the sabar netherworld |
| obverse 10 | ... the creation of the ghost. |
| obverse 8 | ... my utterance of heaven |
| obverse 16 | In the womb of the king |
| obverse 2 | en priestess |
| obverse 11 | ... of a chariot |
| obverse 3 | a young man and young man, my Damu |
| reverse 4' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 1' | he set up his boat. |
| obverse 4 | son of young man, son of Umun-muzida |
| obverse 14 | ... in the takultu-house : takultu-house, the takultu-house : takultu-house, the takultu-house, |
| obverse 7 | Umun-ud |
| top 1 | ... furious... to my lord,......................................... |
| obverse 19 | the table and the land of the lamentation priest |
| obverse 21 | the city of the young man |
| obverse 15 | my knot for their warriors |
| obverse 18 | In the extispicy of the extispicy |
| obverse 17 | to the magan priestesses of the priestesses |
| obverse 26 | ..... may he not live. |
| obverse 27 | his... |
| obverse 5 | A young man and Itaran’s eye he smote |
| reverse 3' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| obverse 28 | ......... |
| obverse 20 | ... in.... you recite the incantation. |
| obverse 13 | and the temple of the brewer |
| reverse 2' | the... of the plain, the grass of the head |
| obverse 23 | and the plain of Kuar |
| obverse 9 | the... of the rites of the shrine |
| obverse 24 | ... will be brought to the fore. |
| obverse 12 | .................... : lord of greatness. |
| obverse 25 | ... plant |
| obverse 22 | ....... of the city of Batuli. |
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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