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Rm 2, 211 (P424994)

CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	Rm 2, 211
ID	P424994
Museum no.	BM —
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian; Sumerian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa
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)
8'	... you gave me
7'	You are the one who smites the incantation
5'	he named it.
16'	who is a...,
11'	... has ceased there, an empty wind (is set?)
15'	... I did not...
12'	... I am not afraid, I am not afraid.
1'	... the father who did not dwell in the temple
13'	He does not set the house(?) in order for you to be smitten(?)
2'	... a father who was not a king
3'	so that they should not smite it
6'	.................
10'	... I did not keep watch; I did not give advice.
14'	... my supplications are good.
9'	he should not abandon reeds
4'	... and give me a firm positive answer.

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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