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BL 047 (P398529)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BL 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398529 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | the umunbar priestess of the sage |
| 2' | the great hero, who speaks kindly |
| 12' | I sent. |
| 5' | whose utterances are pleasing |
| 3' | ...-mu |
| 4' | adgi priestess of the Lady-of-Eanna |
| 11' | the place of its foundations, the harpist of Nintinuga |
| 10' | to recite the brickwork |
| 8' | to the chief steward, the chief steward of Ura |
| 9' | builder of heaven and earth |
| 7' | the great hero Dikuma |
| 6' | the mother of the hero, the lady of wine |
| 13' | ... is not finished |
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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