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K 15190 + 1879-07-08, 0028 (P401222)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15190 + 1879-07-08, 0028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401222 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4' | he smote it, he smote it, |
| obverse 17' | Emutum-ml and the temple of Ninlil |
| obverse 21' | the Abul(?) and the place of ama go out |
| reverse 19 | If he eats food, he will give it to you. |
| obverse 29' | She poured out wine, she poured out the water. |
| reverse 14 | In its house, beer is not poured, its aromatics are not poured. |
| obverse 20' | The Great Gate and the House of Enlil |
| obverse 27' | The house is surrounded by a flood. |
| obverse 16' | the temple Enamtila and the temple of Enlil |
| obverse 7' | O lord, he has sworn by the name of the land... |
| reverse 8 | Weeping bitterly at the place of great bowls |
| obverse 25' | Its ziggurrat |
| reverse 29 | That which is good,... |
| reverse 4 | She sat in tears like a bitter house |
| reverse 22 | ... eats... : eats oxen |
| reverse 27 | He will bring out its gipar offerings from the gipar. The lamentation singer will come out. |
| obverse 3' | he killed Enlil, son of the mountain, and of Sumer |
| reverse 12 | he set up a great date palm in its midst |
| reverse 6 | Like a bitter lament in the house, what is it to me? |
| reverse 18 | Where his oxen are plucked, a man has been seized. |
| obverse 2' | Enlil brought out the sons of Sumer and Akkad |
| obverse 5' | He built a shrine, he did not bring out a man |
| obverse 8' | Enlil, the man of the gan-ur field, the man of the land, the man of the land |
| reverse 13 | He sits next to the great oven(?) |
| obverse 30' | The one who has sinned against a karanu-disease means : he has become frightened, he has taken. |
| obverse 15' | the E-ki-ur and the temple of Ninlil |
| obverse 9' | (If) ditto a solitary cella he smote, and the solitary cella... |
| reverse 21 | ... has seized. |
| obverse 23' | He carries (them) away from the house, he carries (them) together |
| reverse 9 | The place where the great deeds are present, the place where the great deeds are, the place where the great deeds are, |
| obverse 18' | in the house of the builder and the house of Enlil |
| obverse 19' | E’engurninnu and the temple of Enlil |
| obverse 13' | 'Ahula, the heir of Ekur, ditto. |
| obverse 24' | (If) he is a kiln, he is a kiln |
| reverse 1 | like rain in the mountains, like rain, |
| reverse 11 | Whose extispicy is severe, he is ill. |
| obverse 12' | water for the Ekur temple and water for the Ekur temple |
| reverse 20 | Where he? has been seized, his face has been seized |
| reverse 25 | ............... |
| obverse 14' | of the Ekur and the temple of Enlil |
| obverse 6' | He eats my wine, he eats the potter |
| reverse 32 | he heaped up earth, he heaped up earth. |
| reverse 5 | Like a dwelling in a dwelling, he has sat : in a dwelling he has smashed. |
| reverse 10 | In the fields that are destroyed, |
| reverse 28 | from the Egsasaga (temple) went out |
| reverse 26 | The gudu(-officiant) of the house was brought out from awe-inspiring splendor |
| reverse 17 | at the place of slaughtering oxen and slaughtering |
| reverse 3 | The lament of the netherworld, like a wind |
| obverse 11' | May your supplications and your supplications be heard! |
| reverse 31 | That house will not be reclaimed. |
| reverse 24 | whose tail is small (and) whose tail does not rise(?) |
| obverse 22' | (As for) the sand dunes that go out from Urim |
| obverse 28' | The house of the extispicy was destroyed. |
| obverse 10' | When you are to perform a siskur ritual |
| reverse 2 | he was attentive in the land, like a dream he set up. |
| reverse 7 | As a house for a prostitute, he sat down, what is it that he has placed? |
| reverse 16 | ... he will not raise his head. : he will not be negligent. |
| reverse 15 | He did not set up a libation bowl in that house; he did not go out; he did not go out. |
| obverse 26' | Kisigashu has gone out. |
| reverse 23 | (As for) the one who is exalted in the presence of Anu, he is merciful, and he is merciful, |
| reverse 30 | that the temple should not be separated from its weeping |
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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