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K 05163 + K 05411 (P395920)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05163 + K 05411 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395920 |
| 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 11 | May the holy lady, the great lady, speak a word to you |
| obverse 10' | May the hero Asalluhi stand by heaven for you |
| reverse 2 | Great lady, lady of truth, |
| obverse 8' | An, Egeenhuga |
| obverse 18' | May (this query) go to your wife, ditto! |
| reverse 10 | is placed... |
| obverse 14' | (If) ditto which... Anu is ill. |
| reverse 12 | lordship(?)... |
| reverse 4 | asstu of Ninnippur |
| obverse 17' | May Father Enlil, your spouse, Ninlil, speak a word to you |
| reverse 3 | When you speak to the hero of Nippur |
| obverse 5' | he will bring out the supreme shrine |
| reverse 6 | Before the great princes, the hero of the god Sîn, |
| obverse 4' | ...... |
| reverse 13 | ... will speak to you |
| reverse 15 | ... will speak to you |
| obverse 15' | May the Anunna gods rejoice over you in the earth! |
| reverse 7 | May your beloved son, the lady of heaven, be praised! |
| obverse 13' | May the Anunna gods of heaven and earth rejoice over you |
| reverse 5 | May the great son of Nanna-Suen speak aloud |
| obverse 12' | May they stand in your heart for a long time. |
| reverse 9 | When you speak to the great umunsi priestess |
| obverse 11' | May they make your heart rejoice for you |
| obverse 16' | Ditto (is) that is the rest of Anu, |
| reverse 1 | May your sister Ningalzu, the lady of Ke, speak a word to you |
| obverse 6' | ...... became frightened, he became frightened. |
| obverse 1' | ... who... |
| obverse 9' | ..... may he rejoice over you. |
| obverse 3' | he smote |
| reverse 8 | Amurru, beloved of |
| obverse 7' | The small cities of Nippur, Sippar, and Babylon, |
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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