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BM.38967 (ebl:BM.38967)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.38967 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.38967 |
| Museum no. | BM.38967 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations |
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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 4' | to determine the fates |
| obverse 10' | Father Enlil, lord of all the lands |
| obverse 3' | from the temple of Uranki |
| obverse 12' | His utterance does not raise the heavens |
| obverse 8' | Enlil, his rising wild bull, reaches heaven |
| obverse 7'a | whose utterances and utterances are in heaven |
| obverse 7'b | .... a rejoicing utterance to him,... the heavens, |
| obverse 6' | You are to smite(?)..., you are to smite |
| obverse 1' | Father Enlil, lord of the lands |
| obverse 2' | from Nippur |
| obverse 5' | ...... |
| obverse 9' | The highland is a wild bull, it is a hero |
| obverse 11' | from Nippur |
Sources & licences
- 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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