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K 05122 (P395894)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05122 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395894 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 3 7' | I will go and I will kill. |
| col 4 9' | a fierce plow, you go to your frontier |
| col 3 10' | at the station stationed, he will measure out |
| col 4 17' | Who is it that has seized me? |
| col 3 12' | he brings the woman to the house of her husband |
| col 4 16' | ... : that of the sand dunes I. |
| col 4 7' | Lady, you are able to smite the smite(?) |
| col 4 15' | I am the one who performs the extispicy that I have done. |
| col 4 10' | The fierce one, who goes in the midst of the earth, |
| col 4 8' | Belet-Kudurri, who has sinned against the great deeds, has sinned. |
| col 3 8' | he will measure it on the right and left. |
| col 3 5' | I will go before him and I will be exalted. |
| col 3 11' | I will place the foundations for it. |
| col 4 18' | ... is not finished |
| col 4 1' | ... may you be rejoicing. |
| col 4 3' | ... oxen |
| col 4 11' | Lady, you have gone to the plough, you have gone to the head. |
| col 3 6' | When you go to the apsû(?) |
| col 3 9' | I will place it in the lap of my lord. |
| col 3 1' | my lordship..., |
| col 4 14' | The plows that are to smite the seed |
| col 3 4' | I am a supreme me |
| col 4 2' | to save the black-headed......... |
| col 3 13' | ... he returned to the rising of the moon. |
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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