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K 05340a (P396000)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05340a |
|---|---|
| ID | P396000 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 11' | Who prolongs the days, who restores the dead, who establishes the light for the people, |
| reverse 8' | ..., the one who makes the living flourish, |
| reverse 6' | Great lord, you are their father. You are their mother. |
| reverse 4' | ... |
| reverse 12' | The great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, prince, favorite of Aur. |
| reverse 9' | To Nabû, the perfect heir, the overseer of all the heavens and earth |
| reverse 7' | May heaven be praised in the netherworld, may it be praised in its entirety. |
| reverse 13' | shepherd who provides for the shrines of the great gods, who establishes their shrines |
| reverse 10' | The one who grasps the reed mat, the tablet of fates, |
| reverse 3' | like a shepherd... |
| reverse 2' | like a mountain range |
| reverse 1' | ..... |
| reverse 5' | You are the great master, you are the father, you are the mother(?) |
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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