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BM 123394 (P422478)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 123394 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422478 |
| Museum no. | BM 123394 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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? 2' | ... like |
| reverse? 7' | In order to build a house for you |
| reverse? 6' | ... ditto, the house did not |
| reverse? 2' | ... the.. |
| reverse? 10' | ... ditto |
| obverse? 6' | ... the work?, |
| reverse? 9' | may he not |
| obverse? 5' | a kind of profession |
| obverse? 8' | .... |
| reverse? 3' | ...... a man |
| obverse? 7' | the lady of heaven |
| reverse? 8' | ... in the storehouse...... |
| obverse? 4' | ... the land |
| reverse? 5' | I did indeed establish. |
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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