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BA 05, 708 (P395963)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 708 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395963 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa; 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 3 | Umun-muduru, he is perfected |
| obverse 10 | O lord, listen to my prayer, listen to my prayer. |
| obverse 8 | The lord, bringing out a torch, bringing out a torch,... |
| obverse 16 | ... a wooden object, a mountain of the rebellious land, a fire..., |
| obverse 13 | ... |
| obverse 11 | The one who strews radiance, the one who strews justice, |
| obverse 5 | the lord of the Emelamma temple, the god Itar |
| obverse 15 | ...... |
| obverse 1 | hero who is constantly frightened |
| obverse 18 | ... your splendor, which cannot be changed,... |
| obverse 9 | sag kurkurra |
| obverse 14 | The perfect warrior, who cannot be shaken, who brings out..., |
| obverse 7 | of the furious wrath...... |
| obverse 6 | the great fearsomeness of the young men |
| obverse 17 | ... |
| obverse 12 | The hero who does not fear her, who... a scepter |
| obverse 4 | Nusku, exalted... |
| obverse 2 | ... the warrior, the one who... |
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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