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K 08448 (P397635)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08448 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397635 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 1' 22' | to the brickwork, to the brickwork, to the reed-bed |
| col 1' 9' | ... he set up... in my heart. |
| col 1' 6' | ... lord of Babylon |
| col 1' 12' | My lady, the beautiful lady, I purified. |
| col 1' 14' | the first-born son of Ura |
| col 1' 2' | ...... my strength |
| col 1' 25' | ... pure... |
| col 1' 15' | the first-born son of the house of Ibbi-Anum |
| col 1' 3' | ... of Esagil |
| col 1' 1' | ... my strength |
| col 1' 13' | and the Esagila temples |
| col 1' 21' | to the child of your child |
| col 1' 19' | to your city |
| col 1' 23' | to earth, to earth reeds |
| col 1' 16' | of the Lady-Gutesz-asiga (temple) |
| col 1' 17' | my lady Nanaya |
| col 1' 8' | The utterance of the heart of the lord does not diminish(?) |
| col 1' 11' | The shrines, the egis-priests, and the city have been erected. |
| col 1' 5' | ... of the Anuna gods |
| col 1' 4' | ... Asalluhi-gen |
| col 1' 10' | There is no one in my midst, no one in my midst. |
| col 1' 7' | ... in the midst of Esagil |
| col 1' 18' | to the Ezû temple, your temple |
| col 1' 20' | to your spouse |
| col 1' 24' | The horns, the horns of heaven, the horns, the horns, the horns, the horns, the horns. |
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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