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BL 204 (P396065)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 204 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396065 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 9' | lord of the lamentation priests and goddesses, who rejoices |
| 8' | ... the prince, on account of the rising of the land,... |
| 11' | lady of the land of Zabalam, who rejoicing for me |
| 10' | the lady of Uruk and the rejoicing rites |
| 12' | lady of the ursag-kalama (temple), |
| 1' | As if it were a ewe that had fallen into disrepair, the enemy |
| 2' | If he is stricken like a deaf man, he is stricken with truth. |
| 13' | the lady of the Eturkalam temple, the one who makes the heart happy |
| 7' | ... theegir, the lamentation priest, and the rejoicing divine powers |
| 3' | to raise a goat as an interest-bearing interest |
| 5' | like a young woman in a nest, the enemy |
| 4' | to Amagan Zigina, the son of Suba, the enemy |
| 6' | as a child born to an evil 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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