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Sm 0269 (P425329)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0269 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425329 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 1' 4' | may the temples of the month... be given to him. |
| obverse col 1' 3' | My house, my good house and its brickwork destroyed. |
| reverse col 2' 2' | I wrote, collated, and collated it in tablets. |
| obverse col 1' 2' | he spoke to him about the evil of Babylon. |
| reverse col 2' 3' | On the road to Ezida, the temple of Nabû that is inside Nineveh, my lord, I set up. |
| reverse col 2' 5' | ... who reveres your divinity, daily in the midst of the takribtu-festival |
| obverse col 1' 5' | (a kind of profession) |
| obverse col 1' 6' | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse col 2' 6' | Be present in this ram, place in it a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see them. |
| reverse col 2' 1' | According to the wording of tablets, copies of Assyria and Akkad |
| obverse col 1' 1' | He speaks to me about the well-being of his city |
| reverse col 2' 4' | On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and underworld, looked with pleasure upon this stele and |
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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