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K 04953 (P395806)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04953 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395806 |
| 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? 2 | Meli-ea'u did not build my house |
| obverse? 6 | Where do you sit, where do you sit? |
| obverse? 5 | When he enters his city, |
| obverse? 14 | I am able to smite like a riri. |
| obverse? 3 | When I did not build a house,... |
| obverse? 11 | In my teeming dwellings, wherever he enters, |
| reverse 2' | ... |
| obverse? 10 | When I entered the house of my lord |
| obverse? 15 | ... like a rirtu in a kamatu I swore... |
| obverse? 7 | .......... |
| obverse? 12 | I am the one who makes the enemy bow down at my place |
| obverse? 1 | he... its cult centers. |
| obverse? 4 | In the middle of the house the divine powers have been given to me. |
| obverse? 9 | I am able to go out, I am able to go out.... |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| reverse 3' | ...... |
| obverse? 8 | How long, how long, how long? |
| obverse? 17 | ... like a bird in the sky... |
| obverse? 18 | ... his...... |
| obverse? 16 | Like the Amorite lord, he has shaved the skin(?) |
| obverse? 13 | In my previous campaign, where... |
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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