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BL 135 (P397991)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršema (Paired with Balaĝ), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 135 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397991 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršema (Paired with 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | May your city not be abandoned, may it not be abandoned, may it not be abandoned. |
| 14' | an erema ritual |
| 10' | May my egigula priestess, my lady, speak a word to you |
| 2' | ... Ab/An/bar |
| 3' | May your heart rejoice, may your king be happy. |
| 7' | May the true vizier, Muebbasa, speak a word to you |
| 6' | May the Anuna gods, your beloved sons, speak a word to you |
| 13' | It is an erema of Asalluhi |
| 1' | he smote |
| 5' | the hero Asalluhi and An should rejoice over him |
| 12' | May you not abandon Babylon for himself, may your supplication be heard! |
| 4' | The lord, the one who makes the heavens rejoice |
| 8' | May the e-gi-a, the first-born son of Ura, speak a word to you |
| 9' | May the righteousegis of the Lady-of-Guteasiga |
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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