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4R2 30, 1 (P395660)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 4R2 30, 1 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395660 |
| 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' | I seized from the sea |
| obverse 2' | My heart, like heaven, knows how to know. |
| obverse 22' | who determines decisions |
| reverse 21 | He spoke to the young man, he screamed in the street. |
| obverse 18' | 'I am a young man, a sage, who speaks and listens to their prayers. |
| obverse 12' | he does not take away from the river |
| obverse 7' | to : who, like heaven and earth, is seized |
| reverse 2 | battle and battle |
| reverse 23 | You take (it) as a loan, and the blood has been piled up. |
| reverse 8 | The Anuna gods will have mercy on you. |
| reverse 9 | they shall make the orchards open for you |
| reverse 20 | You set out to the shatahu-disease and the shatahatu-disease. |
| reverse 16 | Whose kushû-offering is removed from the yoke : he will die. |
| obverse 8' | The hero(s) who dwell in the place of your judgment |
| obverse 23' | es : to smite |
| reverse 22 | ... rejoicing |
| obverse 20' | When you are to be torn out |
| obverse 1' | Great warrior, great and exalted prince... |
| reverse 7 | i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., i.e., |
| reverse 12 | You recite the incantation : you recite the incantation. |
| obverse 24' | The gods will die from hunger. : You will die. |
| obverse 6' | like heaven and earth |
| reverse 17 | He strews the ub reeds and the ub reeds. |
| obverse 3' | The heavy... which is placed like the heavens, |
| reverse 19 | He shouted at me, he smote me. |
| obverse 25' | ... you crush. |
| obverse 17' | The stones are stones, the plants are destroyed, the plants are destroyed. |
| reverse 18 | You recite the incantation 'You take away the incantation' and the incantation 'You take away the incantation' |
| reverse 26 | ...... together |
| obverse 9' | qarradu-priest to the land of the nadtu-priest and in : to go |
| reverse 13 | When he utters the scepter of the mountain and sea |
| reverse 6 | May the gods of the underworld make you bow down at your feet! |
| reverse 3 | they are favourable |
| obverse 14' | "What are you doing in the district and what are you not doing?" |
| obverse 4' | My great hero, who knows how to live in peace |
| reverse 4 | The gods of heaven will listen to you. |
| obverse 11' | ................ |
| reverse 15 | When he is to drink water from a fisherman's pond, he is to drink water from a mountain |
| reverse 1 | They were standing in heaven and earth. |
| reverse 24 | He shouted at me, he screamed |
| obverse 5' | the great hero, who like the earth the shepherd |
| reverse 14 | ...... in the middle of...... |
| reverse 25 | You recite the incantation 'You bring it to the rear, and you bring it to the rear.' |
| reverse 5 | who makes the foundations of the earth firm |
| reverse 11 | he killed the wild bull and the mountain range |
| obverse 13' | What are you not able to do? |
| reverse 10 | The Anunnaki and the Apa they shall bring you |
| obverse 0' | great hero, mighty one of heaven, who knows what he has to say |
| obverse 21' | You are supreme, and you are supreme, |
| obverse 10' | When you are to be a paphal priest and a woman |
| obverse 16' | What is it that you have brought to you? |
| obverse 19' | "If a man is born in the uzzû-plant, he will die in the uzzû-plant." |
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- 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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