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K 05232 (P395948)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05232 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395948 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; 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) |
|---|---|
| 9' | ........................ |
| 5' | ........ who dwells in his city,.... |
| 3' | ... his..., the harvest... |
| 17' | ......... |
| 7' | ... shadutuk? in his city,......,..,...,...,.., |
| 4' | His uzga shrine is indeed the ziggurrat |
| 12' | When he poured water on him, he sat down at his side. |
| 1' | ......... |
| 11' | ... they will go, they will smite each other. |
| 13' | ... they will go, they will make his throne last long. |
| 15' | ... in the morning |
| 16' | for a second time |
| 8' | If he is a young man, he is indeed a young man |
| 6' | He is indeed the... of the ziggurrat |
| 10' | He brought... to me, he brought... to me. |
| 14' | for a second time |
| 2' | ............ |
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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