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BL 126 (P398527)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 126 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398527 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | the Etemenanki temple |
| 4' | Ezida and Ematila |
| 10' | the son who has a child, his son |
| 13' | heaven and earth |
| 9' | who has a wife and a mother |
| 1' | Sippar |
| 12' | Nippur Sippar, Babylon, Dr-Sibba |
| 2' | Your city Babylon |
| 11' | In the small town, it rises, it rises, it rises. |
| 7' | Your city, the mother, its sons, they do not know. |
| 3' | Esagila and Dr-Sibba |
| 8' | they are the young woman of Babylon, the young woman who does not know how to live |
| 6' | the Edara'ana temple |
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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