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K 09056 (P397883)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09056 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397883 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | the lord Dikuma |
| 13' | Who destroys heaven? Who destroys you? |
| 1' | lord of all the lands |
| 15' | Who filled the earth? You filled the earth? |
| 9' | Hero Asalluhi |
| 18' | Enlil in Ezida |
| 8' | lord of Enki |
| 7' | ......... |
| 4' | the shepherd of the black-headed people |
| 16' | Who has written......? |
| 20' | the fields(?) of the fields, the fields, and the amarra fields he made |
| 3' | O Enlil, father of the potter, |
| 11' | Hero Muzebbasa, you are |
| 6' | the wild bulls who go at the side of the troops |
| 19' | In order to cool the day, in order to cool the great garments |
| 17' | ...... |
| 10' | lord Enbilulu |
| 5' | ............ |
| 2' | lord who speaks righteous words |
| 14' | Who is it, who is it, who is it, who is it? |
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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