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K 04633 (P395670)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04633 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395670 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 18' | I am not in my wife; I am not in my wife. |
| 15' | You do not live in the house, you do not live in the sea. |
| 25' | ... that he is bringing..., I am |
| 24' | The cattle pens and the calf are surrounded by a crescent |
| 10' | ... to hear, ditto. |
| 19' | weeps, weeps |
| 8' | As for me, when he came, he swore to me. |
| 22' | ... entered, I am... |
| 9' | ......... |
| 14' | ........ I have sworn. |
| 2' | ... to the heavens... not... |
| 13' | I am the one who carries a grievous utterance |
| 3' | did not raise a claim against him |
| 7' | The utterances of a man... the earth |
| 20' | ... I have sinned against you. |
| 16' | I am not in the house; I am not in sleep; I am not in sleep. |
| 11' | like a... donkey of the steppe, he has set its head on it. |
| 21' | Its bitter oxen, the day passed |
| 12' | .... he will make me dwell. |
| 23' | ...... : they will be scattered. I |
| 17' | I am not a wife, I am not a child |
| 1' | he did not raise a claim against him |
| 6' | he made me rise up like a snare for his snare |
| 4' | to the underworld... not above... |
| 5' | You... the excess heavens... |
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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