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BA 10/1, 094 (P395910)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 10/1, 094 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395910 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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 3' | May your neck be shaved off. |
| obverse 11 | Your lord, the one who gives advice, the offering |
| obverse 9 | I want to speak a word to you, I want to speak a word to you |
| obverse 5 | When you speak to the lord of the nether world |
| obverse 16' | ...... |
| obverse 4 | To guard the life of the people |
| obverse 6 | To the lord of the mountains and seas... |
| obverse 8 | To save the life of the enemy... |
| reverse 8' | It is the 52nd year of Ikur. |
| reverse 9' | Do not abandon me! Do not abandon me! |
| reverse 6' | May your heart, like a birth mother, be restored to its place. |
| reverse 2' | May he make its eye shine faithfully for you |
| reverse 4' | So that the womb of Ennahunga rises |
| reverse 10' | Written and checked according to its original. |
| obverse 3 | When you speak to the city of Kurkur |
| reverse 7' | As if (it was) a mother born to birth, a father born to birth, |
| obverse 15 | lord of the ubur temple |
| obverse 14 | I prayed to you, and I prayed to you. |
| obverse 10 | Let me speak to him... |
| obverse 1' | When you speak to the gods of heaven and earth, |
| obverse 7 | May the oath of the evildoer speak a word to him |
| reverse 5' | So that your liver is calmed, so that you speak with me |
| obverse 13 | So that you stand in the path, so that you stand in the path |
| obverse 12 | O lord, your command... |
| obverse 2' | For the rest of the heavens and earth |
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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