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BL 143 (P395144)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 143 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395144 |
| 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 5' | My single child |
| reverse 17 | to the water of the palace |
| reverse 20 | holy Inanna |
| obverse 4' | ... life... |
| reverse 5 | Akkil, the place of the son of Kulaba |
| obverse 10' | ... house... |
| reverse 12 | My elumma priestess, the base of my birth mother, and your ziggurrat |
| obverse 9' | The temple |
| reverse 18 | from the shrine Eanna |
| obverse 11' | Ur-, a pure..., |
| reverse 10 | the... of my neck |
| obverse 2' | ... |
| reverse 23 | the lady of the ubur (temple) |
| reverse 16 | Who is my elumma priestess, who is Nanna? |
| reverse 7 | my silver and lapis lazuli strap |
| obverse 6' | ..... |
| reverse 21 | An, son of Inanna |
| reverse 1 | my... that is not split |
| obverse 8' | ... |
| obverse 14' | my good deed |
| reverse 2 | the... of my nudurru rites |
| obverse 7' | I want to speak with you, I want to speak with you |
| reverse 8 | my vizier who makes good/beautiful |
| reverse 22 | Holy Inanna... allure |
| obverse 15' | my |
| reverse 6 | the labar priestess of An and the lady of the ubur |
| reverse 3 | he has decreed for me a fate that cannot be changed |
| reverse 25 | the lady of the ubur (temple) |
| reverse 14 | the base of the mother, the lady of heaven and earth |
| reverse 11 | My elumma priestess and priestess, |
| obverse 3' | My tears(?) |
| obverse 13' | my slander |
| reverse 4 | (If) he is to be seen, he is to be seen, he will spend the day with him |
| reverse 24 | raised up in heaven |
| obverse 12' | ... to... they struck. |
| reverse 13 | Your mother's body and your beloved body |
| reverse 15 | Who is my elumma priestess, who is ama? |
| reverse 19 | shrine Eanna |
| reverse 9 | my scout who is agreeable to him |
| obverse 1' | The king, my lord, should not speak aloud |
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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