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BL 185 (P395675)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 185 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395675 |
| 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? 4' | the city |
| reverse 1' | the lady of the mountain range |
| obverse? 1' | ebony |
| obverse? 11' | extra turban |
| obverse? 3' | the lord of Babylon |
| reverse 15' | to raise |
| reverse 4' | In the great cult centers, the lord in the sanctuaries |
| obverse? 9' | The city Zer-ebba |
| obverse? 5' | lord of the Ezida temple |
| reverse 6' | ... the supplication of Itar,... |
| reverse 11' | the necks of the Anuna gods, the necks of the Akura gods |
| reverse 2' | Gives advice, lady? of the gods... |
| reverse 8' | In the midst of the night, the lady ditto |
| reverse 16' | ...... |
| reverse 5' | the lady of heaven who does not have power |
| reverse 10' | The qarrnû-demon, father of ditto |
| reverse 12' | The hero who has not received... |
| reverse 13' | a bowl of burzi-bowl, written by Gibil, the great shrine, |
| obverse? 10' | I am the one who sets the turban and turban in order |
| obverse? 7' | the chief minister |
| obverse? 2' | The warriors... |
| reverse 9' | who knows the rites of father Ikur |
| obverse? 6' | the lord of the Etemenanki temple |
| reverse 7' | who enters the nirba priestess of Nisaba |
| reverse 3' | whose feet are long and whose utterance is supreme |
| obverse? 8' | of Nabu, the princely son |
| reverse 14' | ... in the evening, in the evening, in the morning, in the morning,... |
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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