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K 05173 (P395922)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05173 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395922 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | ... he will destroy |
| 3' | he smote the reeds to his side. |
| 5' | ... destroys the rebel land |
| 2' | ... he will smite... |
| 1' | he entrusted to Enlil |
| 7' | They smote(?) the gulgul priestess |
| 12' | ... let me speak a prayer. |
| 11' | I shall say to him/them(?): |
| 9' | he fashioned the scepter of the steppe in the steppe |
| 10' | ..... who in a house is seated, |
| 4' | ... the one who carries the scepter of his father, |
| 6' | ... the unalterable.... he sat down. |
| 13' | lord of the lands |
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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