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K 04662 (P395690)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04662 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395690 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | ...... |
| 13' | the harp drum of his case |
| 10' | to the quay which is set... |
| 16' | ... Ibakku... |
| 4' | .... a woman, who is ill,..., |
| 18' | ...... |
| 8' | In her house that is a ruin mound...... |
| 2' | ...... her throne...... |
| 3' | ... bitter god |
| 15' | ... wept,... wept |
| 14' | ... he will guard... |
| 12' | ... of the utterances, |
| 5' | ... weeping and rejoicing |
| 7' | ... the harp... in the midst of... |
| 11' | Its strewn ditches |
| 17' | ... I have been able to(?) bring(?) barley |
| 6' | ... guardian of justice, guardian of heart,... |
| 9' | In her city that was destroyed... |
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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