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K 10098 + Rm 0458 (P398489)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10098 + Rm 0458 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398489 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 19' | .... he strews. |
| 10' | Marduk, the one who makes the mountain range rise |
| 15' | sukkalzi priestess of Muzebbasa |
| 13' | Asalluhi, lord of Babylon, swore. |
| 2' | ... plant(?) |
| 6' | You say... to the heavens, but he does not listen to his prayers. |
| 7' | Enlil, do not raise your utterance in the earth, do not raise your utterance in the earth |
| 18' | may the mother of the gangan make his son happy. |
| 12' | The mother of the shrine Ema of Damgalnuna |
| 11' | Enki, the wild bull of Eridu |
| 3' | Enlil's word |
| 14' | May the Anuna gods, your beloved brother |
| 16' | Egigia, the first-born son of Ura |
| 8' | ... you place... to the heavens and the earth. |
| 17' | the righteousegis of my lady Nanaya, |
| 9' | he poured water into the irrigated orchards. |
| 5' | You are a lord, you are a lord, heaven is not a lord |
| 1' | ... returned his son to him. |
| 4' | Ditto...... |
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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