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Sm 0905 (P425658)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0905 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425658 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5' | May I praise your great divinity for his life! |
| obverse 7 | the scout of my house, who is full of lustration |
| obverse 8 | My elumma priestess and priestess, |
| obverse 5 | my vizier who makes good and good |
| reverse 3' | On account of this, Nabû, king of the totality of heaven and earth, greatly devoted this wall. |
| obverse 9 | My elumma priestess, the base of my birth mother, and your ziggurrat |
| obverse 1 | (If) he sees it, he sees it, he sees it, he sees it daily. |
| reverse 4' | (Property) of Esarhaddon, your shepherd, who reveres your divinity, daily |
| obverse 3 | the scribe of An and the lady of the ubur |
| obverse 4 | my vizier, the scribe, my silver and lapis lazuli |
| reverse 2' | In the Ezida temple, the temple of Nabû that is inside Nineveh, my lord, I established. |
| obverse 2 | of Akkal, the place of the son of Kulaba |
| reverse 1' | I wrote, collated, and collated it in tablets. |
| obverse 6 | I am the one who constantly seeks out the rites of my office |
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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