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BL 018 (P398032)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398032 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | When a man has returned the potsheep, he shall enter with him |
| 10' | My city... bitterness |
| 5' | The Umuna gods Enlil and Enlil enter |
| 16' | My house where wine is poured out, I shall... for you |
| 12' | When he comes out from my house, he... from outside |
| 3' | he made the heart rejoice. |
| 9' | ... my eagle |
| 2' | he smote a tu bird |
| 8' | When he has sinned against his black-headed people, he shall enter with them |
| 14' | Enlil, my lord, the righteous city, the shepherd of Mani |
| 13' | In my house, the Ezida temple he sat down. |
| 15' | My house that gladdens the heart, I will... the lament |
| 11' | The lords of the great sanctuaries prayed to you: |
| 17' | ...... |
| 4' | to the elum shrine of the evil-doer |
| 6' | O lord, ditto, and for the zaqiqû-offering they returned. |
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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