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K 13984 (P400565)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 13984 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400565 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4' | When you have destroyed my Egalmah temple |
| obverse 5' | When you have destroyed the E-rabri and the Enamna temple |
| obverse 8' | When you have destroyed the E'ursag, my harp |
| obverse 3' | My enemy approaches the shrine Erabriria, my holy place |
| reverse 7' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 2' | Your mother, the shrine of my supreme palace |
| reverse 4' | Just as in my heart... |
| obverse 1' | mother of the temple, Ezina and Kusu |
| obverse 9' | When you have destroyed my house and my weeping house |
| reverse 5' | from the plain |
| obverse 7' | My enemy, when you have destroyed the shrine Egalma |
| reverse 6' | (If) ditto he is worried: the city will be destroyed... |
| reverse 2' | the lord of the lands... |
| reverse 1' | Lord of all the lands, like beer, a jug |
| obverse 6' | My mother, the brickwork of Isin has been destroyed |
| reverse 3' | I will give you as a gift my heart as if it were a dream. |
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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