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K 05307 (P395985)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05307 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395985 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 3 | We went to his city |
| obverse 1 | I want to go to his bed |
| obverse 11 | to the city, to the threshing floor of Babylon |
| obverse 8 | I want to go to Zabalam barley rations |
| obverse 4 | I want to go to the right side of the city |
| obverse 10 | I want to go to the Eturkalam temple |
| obverse 12 | to the lady of heaven he took away. |
| obverse 9 | I want to go to the mountain range of the land |
| obverse 7 | I want to bring the brickwork of Uruk |
| obverse 5 | to the city for remission. |
| obverse 2 | I want to go to the city |
| obverse 6 | I want to go to Kulaba |
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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