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BM 134777 (P423296)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 134777 |
|---|---|
| ID | P423296 |
| Museum no. | BM 134777 |
| 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 22' | ... in the evening? |
| reverse 25' | ... heaven |
| reverse 12' | ............ |
| reverse 19' | eshese |
| reverse 16' | ... my heart(?) |
| obverse 16' | ... supreme...... |
| obverse 4' | ...... |
| obverse 21' | he imposed upon him. |
| reverse 18' | ...... |
| reverse 11' | (Possessing) a happy heart, a happy heart, a happy heart, |
| obverse 9' | ... not second quality |
| reverse 37' | ......... |
| obverse 38' | ...... |
| reverse 13' | ...,...,...,..., |
| reverse 1' | My name is not |
| obverse 14' | ... supreme........... |
| obverse 31' | ... made reeds tremble |
| obverse 7' | ...... |
| obverse 20' | ...... |
| obverse 18' | ...... |
| reverse 34' | ......... |
| obverse 32' | .... he will acquire strength and strength in the hand. |
| reverse 22' | ...... |
| obverse 3' | ... his... |
| obverse 6' | ... you set up... |
| obverse 36' | ......... |
| reverse 4' | ........... a great... my name. |
| reverse 26' | ... enemy(?) |
| reverse 2' | ... my name... |
| obverse 10' | .... not... |
| reverse 29' | ...... |
| reverse 21' | great..., |
| reverse 33' | ... plant(?) |
| obverse 13' | ... he |
| obverse 25' | ... he built the brewer |
| reverse 8' | ................... |
| reverse 36' | ... are smashed... |
| obverse 29' | ... meat(?) |
| reverse 20' | ... the house ditto. |
| obverse 34' | ...... |
| reverse 31' | ......... |
| obverse 8' | ...... |
| obverse 15' | ...... |
| reverse 3' | The foreign lands together did not... my name |
| obverse 23' | ... set up a wall. |
| reverse 14' | ......... |
| obverse 35' | ...... |
| reverse 10' | ... to...... blood... |
| reverse 28' | ... and |
| reverse 17' | to smite |
| reverse 27' | ... unceasing... |
| reverse 23' | ... the heart |
| reverse 5' | They are heaped up in heaps, my name is not... |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 24' | ... the house...... |
| obverse 33' | ... he... |
| obverse 26' | ............ he will come to an end, he will come to an end, |
| obverse 27' | He builds the lubara temple, he builds the lubara temple |
| obverse 28' | ...... in battle............... he goes. |
| reverse 9' | “Adunity, alas, alas, my name!” |
| obverse 17' | ...... |
| obverse 5' | he established for me. |
| obverse 19' | ... supreme |
| reverse 7' | She sat down on the ground like sheaves, but my name did not |
| obverse 12' | .............. |
| obverse 30' | ................................. |
| obverse 24' | ... the door..., the door..., the door... in the wall. |
| reverse 6' | ........ |
| obverse 11' | he made |
| reverse 15' | eshese |
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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