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Rm 2, 199 (P424990)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 199 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424990 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 16' | Say to him: "Let me praise your great divinity!" |
| 14' | On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and netherworld, looked with pleasure upon this stele. |
| 5' | (Property of) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| 8' | His supplications, not his supplications, came to his hands. |
| 15' | (Property) of Anar-bani-apli, the shepherd who reveres your divinity, daily in the midst of the night. |
| 6' | For his life, the life of his days, the well-being of his seed |
| 11' | When the wording of these tablets is favourable, the land of Assyria and the land of Akkad |
| 4' | son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| 1' | Who restores the dead, who establishes the light for the people, |
| 13' | On the bank of the Ezida, the temple of Nabû that is in Nineveh, my lord, I established. |
| 7' | the base of the throne of his royal throne, who hears his prayers |
| 12' | I wrote, collated, and collated it. |
| 3' | shepherd who provides for the shrines of the great gods, who establishes their sattukku offerings |
| 10' | Who is attentive to the wrath of the great gods, |
| 9' | Holy scepter of Ea, supremacy of the scepter, |
| 2' | Great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, prince, favorite of Aur, Bel and Nabû |
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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