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BL 199 (P396842)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 199 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396842 |
| 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, the awe-inspiring radiance of heaven |
| 7' | The cows of the shipyard should not roar |
| 5' | a star for... |
| 13' | ... his heart... |
| 12' | The water of his body |
| 1' | ... a man |
| 15' | ...... |
| 2' | Its lord is bright, it is bright. |
| 3' | This is what is said in the following way: |
| 9' | the lord of the scepter |
| 11' | Arali, the one of the plain, water |
| 14' | lord of the heavens |
| 8' | May your son not approach you. |
| 10' | The mother, the young man, was speaking to the plain |
| 6' | The mother of the ganmen priestess, the one who utters a scream, may she not be a father |
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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