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BA 05, 672 (P398035)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BA 05, 672 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398035 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | Your lord, your command, the libation of the barley, the libation of his own fear |
| 17' | When the great princeship of the father Enki |
| 3' | heir of Esagila |
| 11' | The city, the lord of the Ilurugu canal |
| 15' | ... of Nabû the princely son and heir of Esagila |
| 10' | lord of Babylon, lord of Esagila |
| 7' | Supreme lord, who knows the fates,... |
| 2' | For Nabû, princely son |
| 9' | great hero, lord Enzag |
| 8' | the city, hero |
| 16' | The lord of Engur |
| 12' | lord of the Ezida temple, lord of the Emahtila temple |
| 4' | the shrine Enzag, the dwelling place |
| 13' | ... of the Etemenanki temple, lord of the Edarana temple |
| 1' | (As for) the temple of Enlil, the temple of Enlil, the temple of Enlil |
| 18' | In my awe-inspiring radiance, in the midst of battle, in the midst of battle, |
| 5' | Mother Babu, the lady, the holy city |
| 14' | ... Dikuma and Muzebbasa |
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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