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K 09324 (P398046)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09324 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398046 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse? 4 | As to what the lord of lords has done, he has made a payment. |
| reverse? 5 | What is it that is that of the great heavens? |
| reverse? 3 | He opened the door of his scepter in the cattlepen. |
| reverse? 9 | When he was to speak to the lord of the gods |
| reverse? 6 | When he speaks to Enlil |
| reverse? 8 | When Meslamtaea spoke to him |
| reverse? 10 | he (Ningirsu) smote him (Ningirsu) to heaven |
| reverse? 7 | his hero, the one who reveres him |
| reverse? 2 | The word of the lord/lord is his word. |
| reverse? 1 | When he speaks to him, when he speaks to him |
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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