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BL 161 (P397712)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 161 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397712 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | When the great axes have been fashioned (with) meat and sheep |
| 27' | he did not have a son, he did not sleep. |
| 7' | He raised the eye of Ertur, the shepherd. |
| 15' | The harvest of the land will diminish(?) its destructive harvest(?) |
| 3' | When its brickwork was destroyed |
| 26' | the young woman who has no brother, |
| 14' | When he goes to the hand of his mound |
| 16' | The people were eating food |
| 24' | he will bring out the storm from the 5th house for you |
| 9' | The gimuru priests and the mother's sons shall return to their control. |
| 6' | he destroyed the utul priesthood of the sheepfold. |
| 22' | he decreed the place of decreeing. |
| 8' | (If) he destroys the cattlepen, he destroys the sheepfold |
| 5' | The goats... their suckling |
| 21' | he made the fields and fields of Damascus shine like daylight. |
| 23' | He determines the top of the well(?) and the top of the tin(?) |
| 4' | The cattlepen has been destroyed, its nest has been destroyed. |
| 1' | The storm that destroys cattle-pens and sheepfolds |
| 13' | When the storm reaches the mound, |
| 18' | He destroys the true temple, he destroys the true man, he destroys the true man |
| 12' | When he eats the storm, he eats a leather bag |
| 10' | water to be poured, water to the long house |
| 20' | The storm ripped the large garments |
| 19' | I am the one who makes the righteous man bow down at the earth |
| 2' | The storm that makes the day pleasant, rejoicing |
| 17' | I raised up the people. |
| 25' | he will bring out the tenth day from the 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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