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K 07083 (P397015)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07083 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397015 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 16' | The shepherd weeps with tears. |
| 8' | brickwork of Etemenanki and the shrine Edarana |
| 7' | from the brickwork of Ezida and the shrine Ematila |
| 10' | Its lady has changed its bitterness |
| 5' | of Esagila and the shrine Tl-kalam |
| 4' | from the sanctuaries of Babylon he changed |
| 15' | ... he strews its food offerings. |
| 12' | When the lord Enlil enters with joy |
| 1' | from the brickwork of the Ekur and the threshing floor of the Enamtila temple |
| 14' | he entrusted to the father and father. |
| 6' | from the eb of Dr-Sibba he changed |
| 9' | The utterance of the city was changed. |
| 17' | Its gudu(-officiant) does not eat sweet beer |
| 3' | barley rations of the Ebabbar and the Edikukalam temple |
| 13' | He weeps, he weeps |
| 11' | The city's lord should ask (about it). |
| 2' | the barley rations of E-zibir were changed |
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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