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BL 009bis (P398037)

CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	BL 009bis
ID	P398037
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)
obverse 8	to the god Ura-ara
obverse 7	great hero, lord of Enlil
obverse 2	wise one, who comes out,
obverse 6	great hero
obverse 9	the great hero who the Eninnu
obverse 12	the alim priestess of the Ea-mah temple
obverse 13	the great hero, lord of the E-me-uranna temple
obverse 11	the great hero, lord of the Eume temple
obverse 10	heir of the Esharra temple
obverse 5	The mighty one, the one who comes out, knows how to come out
obverse 4	: exalted one, exalted lord,
obverse 3	he is an etellu, the one who loves his people, the one who smites Ana-manu
obverse 1	The wise one, the wise one, the wise one, who knows :

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)

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.