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K 05308 (P395986)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05308 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395986 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | the mother of the house and Dada, the beautiful woman |
| 17' | ... weeps :... weeps |
| 20' | ......... in the land. |
| 16' | ... he has brought the water to him, and the water has not been poured. |
| 15' | (If) he does not drink water : he will not drink water. |
| 19' | the reedbeds of the earth |
| 24' | ... you should not speak(?) |
| 18' | She did not open her eyes in judgment. |
| 11' | My szszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszs |
| 6' | the fate of my good house has been destroyed. |
| 8' | who destroys my righteous city |
| 13' | He will eat grass and grass. |
| 14' | They gave him all the way to him, but he did not go out. |
| 12' | my... tablet |
| 5' | of Nanaya and the son of the house |
| 21' | ............ |
| 10' | ... its people |
| 22' | ...... which they have... |
| 3' | of Lil-ena, the lady of the cattlepen and sheepfold |
| 23' | ...... |
| 9' | ... of the city : its city... |
| 7' | ... of the house : the true house... |
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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