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BL 081 (P395820)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 081 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395820 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 25 | to the lands of the distant future |
| obverse 10' | (If) in the midst of the sky ditto |
| reverse 1 | Its name is “weeping and lamenting.” |
| obverse 33' | In the evening, he sat down. |
| obverse 20' | I sat down in the guard |
| obverse 24' | O father, ditto, you recite the incantation without interruption. |
| obverse 14' | When you speak and you have sworn, |
| obverse 28' | Lord of the stele, he is a god, he is a hero, he is a hero |
| obverse 13' | When you speak to Bduga |
| reverse 4 | he will die... |
| reverse 32 | You are supreme and supreme |
| obverse 9' | From the cloud like the horizon, the great mountain, father Enlil, to the cosmic powers, |
| obverse 1' | ......... the city ditto. |
| reverse 35 | Enlil, the father who begot you, |
| reverse 9 | Enlil, father of the drinking and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 31 | Towards the netherworld, he smote heaven, he smote heaven. |
| reverse 8 | whose utterances are true and the oxen, your name on the lands |
| reverse 24 | In the midst of the earth... |
| obverse 8' | (If) he is surrounded by a reed fence: in the midst of the sky ditto. |
| obverse 5' | to Enlil, to Enlil, to Enlil, to Enlil, to Enlil, to Enlil: |
| reverse 10 | shepherd of the black-headed people and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| obverse 31' | O lord, in the city of... |
| reverse 26 | ... to the land... : to the land... |
| reverse 36 | shepherd of the black-headed people |
| obverse 34' | Lord, he weeps bitterly in princeliness |
| obverse 30' | The lord of my city is the one who goes to the rear of your cult daises. |
| reverse 34 | You are the lord who speaks faithfully |
| obverse 7' | From the horizon to the horizon, where is it that is not cut? |
| obverse 36' | in the midst of a flood, he will die. |
| reverse 42 | Lord Enbilulu |
| obverse 15' | Your commands are exalted |
| obverse 18' | the shepherd who is not inspected and seated in the house |
| obverse 29' | O lord, in my city... a house in the street... |
| obverse 19' | You set up a merciless reed for us. |
| reverse 6 | oxen, elum bull, oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 12 | wild bulls, judges, and oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 21 | to the threshing floor and threshing floor |
| reverse 16 | lord of Enbilulu and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 19 | Your name fills the netherworld, and An utters an aura |
| reverse 30 | to the whole land |
| obverse 27' | ... he will not live in a house. |
| obverse 11' | When you speak to Biduga |
| obverse 21' | he made the grass grow in the plain |
| reverse 38 | the wild bulls who go at the side of the troops |
| reverse 14 | lord of Enki and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 5 | its reeds are weeping |
| reverse 44 | you are the lord of the judges |
| obverse 35' | its year: “Weeping and bitter barley.” |
| reverse 15 | Hero Asalluhi and the oxen-drivers, your name to all the lands |
| obverse 16' | Your slander is finished |
| obverse 4' | ... the great ewes... |
| reverse 33 | You are the lord of all the lands |
| obverse 32' | She weeps bitter tears in the plain |
| reverse 39 | you are supreme |
| reverse 22 | to the right and left |
| reverse 17 | Hero Muebbasa, and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 2 | whose reeds are weeping and weeping |
| reverse 40 | you are the lord of Enki |
| reverse 43 | Hero Muzebbasa, you are great |
| obverse 23' | The reed fence of father Enlil was set up in the plain |
| reverse 29 | to the lands that he has cultivated |
| obverse 22' | You remove my inscribed name from the brickwork. |
| obverse 25' | As if (it was) a good day, the great mountain Enlil has set out from the horizon |
| reverse 27 | to the mountain of all the lands |
| obverse 12' | ... you said,... you... |
| reverse 23 | to the place where they are seated, |
| reverse 7 | lord of all the lands and oxen, your name to all the lands |
| obverse 37' | whose reeds are bitter and whose barley is bitter |
| reverse 11 | (As for) the oxen and sheep, your name is towards the lands |
| reverse 13 | oxen-driver(s) and oxen |
| obverse 2' | Its seed(?) is water of my child(?) (but) what is it that is that of me(?) |
| reverse 20 | Its fearsomeness is a solitary place, it is a distant place. |
| obverse 6' | (and) as far as the land ditto, as far as the land Elu, as far as the land he does not know |
| obverse 17' | If you see it, you will see it. |
| reverse 18 | the chief judge and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| reverse 3 | its year: “Harvest” |
| reverse 28 | in the entirety of the land |
| reverse 41 | you are the hero of Asalluhi |
| obverse 3' | He... the great reed baskets of the ewes and the ewes in his days. |
| reverse 37 | You are the one who heaps up its oil in his own strength |
| obverse 26' | The gods of the temple, the gods, the lamentation priests, the lamentation priests |
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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