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K 17657 (P402969)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17657 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402969 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 9' | lord of Amanki and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| 1' | ... oxen and sheep, your name to all the lands |
| 2' | lord of the lands and the oxen, your name on the lands |
| 8' | and the oxen-drivers, your name on the lands |
| 4' | by Enlil, father of the drinking, and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| 5' | the shepherd of the black-headed people and the oxen, your name to all the lands |
| 7' | ... wild bulls, oxen, your name to all the lands |
| 3' | lord Ugga, righteous one, and oxen, your name to all the lands |
| 6' | whose face is adorned with fearsomeness and oxen, your name on the lands |
| 10' | Hero Asalluhi and the oxen, your name on the lands |
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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