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BL 010 & 061 (P397995)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 010 & 061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397995 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 9' | Take hold of it, take hold of your arms in heaven |
| obverse 1' | the great ilam priestess of mother Ninlil, lord |
| obverse 15' | When you have destroyed the sanctuaries of the great heavens |
| obverse 10' | My master raises your arms in heaven |
| obverse 3' | The arrows of the great reeds he fashioned for him |
| obverse 5' | the one who enters the radiance of the lady of Nisaba |
| obverse 21' | When a man is not agreeable to the lord |
| obverse 12' | Your city, when you have destroyed your power |
| obverse 22' | May my lord go to him without ceasing. |
| obverse 4' | The lady of heaven, the lord of heaven |
| obverse 8' | In a burzi-vessel, written by Gibil, the great shrine, he made it shine. |
| obverse 18' | Let him go, let him go, |
| obverse 20' | Let me go to the unsubmissive land. |
| obverse 13' | Your city, which has been destroyed by the deluge, |
| obverse 14' | Elam, your destroyed city |
| obverse 11' | (As for) the one who raises your arms against the irigal demon |
| obverse 7' | who makes the foundations of the scepter firm, |
| obverse 6' | who makes the wild bull bow down at father Ikur |
| obverse 2' | the adara priestess of the lady of the mountain range |
| obverse 19' | I want to bring a man to the quay |
| obverse 16' | Like the heart of the sea, your barley |
| obverse 17' | a kind of container |
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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