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Sm 1369 (P425881)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1369 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425881 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Balaĝ |
| 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? 1' | ... he brought him out... |
| obverse? 6' | When you bring out the garments, |
| reverse? 10' | The man who is his wife is one who is his son. |
| obverse? 11' | The great... of Anu |
| obverse? 2' | the... of Kalkal, the man who gave birth, |
| reverse? 3' | ... plant of the gods... plant of the gods... |
| reverse? 5' | ... he has sworn... |
| reverse? 0' | The cattlepen has been destroyed, its food rations... |
| obverse? 5' | door of the mulu-gitab-dealer, doorkeeper |
| obverse? 1' | The greatness of the father who begot me |
| reverse? 7' | The year (in which) the name of a built-up city has not been determined |
| obverse? 7' | She is pure her life, she is pure |
| reverse? 11' | He is a man, his wife is a man, his son is a man |
| obverse? 8' | the erzida rites were set up |
| reverse? 4' | You take... as a loan. You take the water. |
| reverse? 2' | The wild goats... their sucklings |
| reverse? 12' | ......... |
| obverse? 9' | You are the one who carries out the extispicy of the netherworld. |
| reverse? 9' | He is a man whose son is a man whose son is |
| obverse? 10' | the great... of heaven |
| reverse? 6' | The year in which my built house was not erected, my name |
| obverse? 3' | of Kalkal, my man, the doorkeeper |
| reverse? 8' | my..., I do not know, my name |
| obverse? 4' | the temple of Kalkal, the lord, the doorkeeper |
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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