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K 04960 (P395809)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04960 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395809 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 11 | for a second time |
| reverse 10 | ... your city......... |
| reverse 7 | When the lord... the utterances of heaven and earth |
| reverse 1 | ... a good... in battle, a rival(?) |
| reverse 3 | fierce fierce..., unrivaled land |
| reverse 6 | (If) ditto he is sick, ditto and he is sick |
| reverse 4 | ... a fierce throne, a hostile land, unsubmissive |
| reverse 5 | ... of the Anuna gods |
| reverse 2 | strong...,...,..., unrivaled battle, |
| reverse 13 | ... |
| reverse 9 | ... your city |
| reverse 8 | The lord whose word is favourable to the hero... |
| reverse 12 | ......... |
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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