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BM 113920 (P469302)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; CANONICAL > School Tablet, Neo-Babylonian, Ur · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 113920 |
|---|---|
| ID | P469302 |
| Museum no. | BM 113920 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations; CANONICAL > School Tablet |
| Find spot | Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) |
| Coordinates | 30.9607, 46.1063 |
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 19 | lord of the Eumea temple |
| reverse 6 | exalted..., destroyed place of heaven |
| obverse 14 | As for the fowlers who had given birth to fowlers, they gave birth to... |
| reverse 4 | The lord of the kakkaja shrine, he built, the one of the people does not come out |
| obverse 13 | rejoiced(?) |
| reverse 8 | he returned, he wept, |
| reverse 11 | by Enlil and his wife Ninlil |
| reverse 2 | ... Enlil, the son of the mountain, brought(?) to Sumer |
| obverse 17 | its water, a man seized the fish |
| reverse 15 | by means of the strength of Enlil |
| obverse 18 | ... a man will be seized by locusts. |
| reverse 9 | the master of the quay of the Edara-ana temple |
| reverse 16 | the lord of heaven and earth |
| obverse 11 | (a kind of profession) |
| reverse 14 | of Enki, the wild bull of the city Zeb |
| obverse 15 | by Enlil... your gurum priesthood |
| reverse 12 | his sister and lady of the Emah temple |
| reverse 3 | ... Enlil built heaven, he did not eat(?) hand(?) |
| reverse 7 | ... he returned. An |
| obverse 16 | When you speak to the lord, the righteous one |
| reverse 17 | the lord of ama-ulu |
| reverse 1 | ... Enlila, son of Sumer, brought(?) to the netherworld |
| reverse 5 | to the... of heaven |
| top 1 | ebtu (Month IX), 23rd day |
| obverse 19 | ... destroys all the people... |
| reverse 10 | He prayed to her, he prayed to her, he prayed to her |
| reverse 13 | She spoke to the holy lady of Nippur: |
| obverse 12 | nanny goat |
| reverse 20 | the lord of the Ea-mah temple |
| reverse 18 | the great hero, the ruler of Nippur |
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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