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BM 038156 (P563641)
Hymn, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563641 |
| Museum no. | BM 038156 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Hymn |
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 1 6' | the house that has ceased there, the lamentation priest has ceased |
| col 1 3' | ... of Namri... |
| col 1 14' | His heart was stricken with famine and famine. |
| col 1 15' | The fowler raised his neck in his house. |
| col 1 13' | Its midst brings out a lament and a man. |
| col 1 11' | He weeps, he enters with a lament |
| col 1 2' | does not let the shining man pass by |
| col 1 1' | ... joy,... did not go out? |
| col 1 22' | brickwork of his Ekur temple |
| col 1 10' | His face is darkened, his heart is darkened |
| col 1 0' | who does not bring out joy |
| col 1 20' | Enlil does not change his word |
| col 1 9' | Its midst weeps, its midst weeps. |
| col 1 21' | in his city Nippur he heaped up. |
| col 1 5' | ... his shepherd... he has left |
| col 1 23' | the Ki'ur temple, the great place, he built. |
| col 1 8' | the... of the bird(s)... the lament |
| col 1 7' | ... the deficit of fish(?)... weeping |
| col 1 19' | that he should not return to his utterance |
| col 1 17' | lord of all the lands |
| col 1 16' | ... he smote...... he smote... into his house. |
| col 1 4' | From its ziggurrat and weeping |
| col 1 24' | the shrine Enamtila |
| col 1 18' | The lord of all the lands, the one of the righteous, |
| col 1 12' | ... he smote him in a tavern and a flood he brought. |
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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