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K 09259 + K 09339 (P397997)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09259 + K 09339 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397997 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7 | Beloved of his city |
| obverse 5' | no-one... strength |
| obverse 17' | he will die.... |
| reverse 5 | The slanderer who loves his city |
| obverse 15' | to the people... |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 9' | When he stands, he stands |
| reverse 6 | Lady who loves the house |
| reverse 1 | The day Enlil spent the day there |
| obverse 14' | Its inhabitants do not |
| obverse 8' | The storm that struck the cow |
| obverse 16' | who gives advice to his father |
| obverse 2' | Princess, lady of Babylon |
| obverse 11' | ... to her sage... |
| obverse 12' | No one... the head |
| reverse 2 | In the days of the rejoicing of ditto |
| obverse 6' | When the storm was abandoned, when the storm was small |
| obverse 10' | ... not... |
| obverse 7' | The storm that destroyed the cattlepen, the sheepfold, and the sheepfold |
| obverse 3' | he has given to me |
| reverse 4 | she will die... she will die.... |
| obverse 4' | I do not know, I do not know |
| reverse 3 | The divine powers, the divine powers, the divine powers, the divine powers... |
| obverse 13' | ... to the sage of her mother... |
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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