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Sm 1589 (P426000)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1589 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426000 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 1' | ...... |
| col 2' 11' | he should not |
| col 1' 2' | Aim-imu |
| col 1' 7' | ningi |
| col 2' 8' | ... to the enemy... |
| col 2' 9' | Ama-gan-gen |
| col 2' 3' | governor |
| col 2' 7' | ...... |
| col 2' 13' | ... heaven |
| col 2' 2' | ... my mouth... |
| col 1' 6' | ... this |
| col 1' 8' | ..... |
| col 2' 10' | ...... |
| col 2' 12' | ...... |
| col 2' 4' | ... shalila... |
| col 2' 5' | who to the scribal art |
| col 2' 6' | ... to be great... |
| col 1' 1' | ... water(?) |
| col 1' 3' | ... water(?) |
| col 1' 5' | ... water(?) |
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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