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ASKT 16 (P395807)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ASKT 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395807 |
| 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 3' | The mother, like a young man, sits, like the father, like the father |
| reverse 22 | Will he who can hear, hear it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| reverse 12 | May I stand in a great cloister and speak ewes! |
| obverse 35' | ... who is clad in radiance,... |
| obverse 21' | When you speak to Amagangen, the cows of the calf, you are the one who roars, |
| obverse 29' | the lord of the reeds will not raise a claim |
| reverse 13 | At the gate of your librir priestess I shall drink water from it |
| reverse 8 | he opened my eye upon me, and he smote me. |
| reverse 4 | ... in the treasury of the apsû,... |
| reverse 1 | The lord of the cult centers, the lord of the cult centers, has seized |
| obverse 25' | Do not let your son become angry with him. |
| reverse 27 | he is a reed hut, he is a liar |
| reverse 29 | he is a reed hut, he is a liar |
| obverse 2' | ... my offspring, as.... |
| obverse 31' | The mother, the young man, the one who roars in the plain |
| obverse 27' | May the lord of justice not make a decision |
| reverse 17 | I want to say “Alas, my man” |
| obverse 11' | My birth mother... my fear |
| reverse 28 | ... or he will return... |
| reverse 2 | The great lord, my lord, what has he done? |
| obverse 23' | cows and calf, not reciting your word, you are a reed stall |
| reverse 30 | ... he will not return... |
| obverse 15' | Amagan-gen and wife of the divine powers and children of the divine powers |
| obverse 5' | He looked at its food, its food is evil, its food like water(?) |
| obverse 18' | I am in the temple of.... |
| obverse 13' | I am Ama-gan-gen and An, I am not in the earth |
| reverse 9 | and the librirra of the land he has seized |
| reverse 21 | When you speak to me, when you speak to me, when you speak to me, |
| obverse 34' | he smote, and he smote |
| reverse 6 | he opened my eyes and caused my death. |
| obverse 16' | I, ewes...... |
| obverse 26' | They will not give you a great gift to you. |
| reverse 10 | Why did he stand by me? |
| reverse 14 | May I establish... |
| reverse 35 | n... |
| obverse 1' | Like the water of Amagan |
| obverse 24' | You do not write to a person... |
| obverse 22' | ... I... not be afraid of me, your judgments... |
| reverse 24 | ... in Babalu |
| reverse 25 | from the... of Insiga to the sea |
| reverse 26 | ... in the morning... |
| reverse 23 | from the... of the heavens |
| obverse 12' | ... my own power I took, the following... |
| obverse 10' | ... the tribute that I received from Amshali, saying:... |
| reverse 18 | May I speak favorably to my city... |
| obverse 6' | He is a lamentation singer, his face is evil. He is a lamentation singer, like... |
| reverse 33 | ...... |
| reverse 34 | ... the goddess Isag... to.. |
| obverse 7' | Its watercourse is a bad watercourse, its water is a bad watercourse |
| obverse 20' | I am... |
| obverse 17' | ... Amagan... |
| reverse 7 | My brick-built house has been destroyed, my son has not been repaid |
| obverse 28' | The lord of the bow shall not give you. |
| reverse 3 | On the bank of the Euphrates the land approached |
| reverse 16 | Let me slander that one,... |
| obverse 33' | Arali, the roar of the steppe, |
| obverse 19' | Amagan-gen |
| obverse 14' | I am a citizen of..., above..., above.... |
| reverse 32 | ... to the heavens... |
| obverse 30' | The lord should not give you advice. |
| obverse 8' | Their face is evil, they are... water. |
| reverse 15 | I want to say “Alas, its young man,” I want to say “Alas, my man” |
| obverse 4' | The wise one, the wise one, when you dwell, the water like... |
| reverse 19 | I want to say “Amagan-gen, my oxen, my..., |
| reverse 20 | I, who like a pig they have snatched, may I speak as follows: |
| obverse 9' | My mother... from the utterances |
| reverse 31 | ...... |
| obverse 32' | ... my supplication: You should not be negligent in the morning,... |
| reverse 11 | I want to stand at the gate of the city, I want to say “O my man!” |
| reverse 5 | My base has been weakened, my wife has not been loosened |
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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