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K 05059 (P395857)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395857 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | When you enter the house, your house |
| 4' | whose chest is surrounded by a reddish skin |
| 13' | ...... |
| 5' | ...... whose divinity cannot be dispersed?... |
| 12' | ... to the house in your entering, your house... |
| 3' | whose utterances |
| 10' | ... where you are, among the gods... |
| 6' | ... which in the awe-inspiring radiance did not?... |
| 8' | Who knows the divine powers, who determines the divine powers |
| 9' | ... your dominion, your strength, your strength, your greatness,..., |
| 2' | ... Uballit, the woman?... |
| 1' | ... his(?) name... above and below |
| 7' | Your lordship is supreme, your strength is supreme, your greatness is supreme |
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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