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ZA 030, 083 (P395781)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ZA 030, 083 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395781 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 3' | The storm was bitter, it blew like a cow. |
| 10' | the days of heaven and earth, the days of Enlil |
| 11' | whose days are long and whose heavens are long |
| 6' | The one who has sinned against me(?) |
| 15' | the good storm, the evil storm |
| 7' | bitter storm, bitter storm |
| 14' | The storm which did not come out, the storm which did not know the mother |
| 8' | the bitter storm and the storm that afflicts the heart |
| 17' | When the good wife is not known |
| 4' | In days to come, he will have the usufruct of it like a curse. |
| 5' | The... of the house is a storm, it is smitten like a cow. |
| 16' | the days of its offerings |
| 18' | When the beautiful son is not known |
| 13' | a time when abundance and abundance are finished |
| 9' | a reed storm, a storm surpassing in the nether world |
| 2' | ...... the earth |
| 12' | When evil of the land and the land of Enlil |
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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