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BM.38978 (ebl:BM.38978)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.38978 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.38978 |
| Museum no. | BM.38978 |
| 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 7' | he has slain his hips, his hips... |
| obverse 6' | its... was destroyed, its side was destroyed |
| reverse 10 | ... your... like the father who had engendered me, |
| obverse 3' | ... the house/house? is not there?, it is not there?, it is not there? |
| obverse 2' | ... he has no equal, he has no equal, |
| obverse 11' | ...... they returned |
| reverse 5 | ... : he will make the foundations of the temple rise. |
| reverse 2 | ... they smote him. |
| obverse 8' | he heaped up a house with fire like a brick. |
| obverse 10' | to... its reeds I shall bring |
| obverse 4' | ... of Eridu he built. |
| obverse 5' | ... and Eridu, the exalted ones, |
| reverse 4 | ... he turned back to do... |
| reverse 11' | ... |
| reverse 7 | It is an abomination, it is an abomination |
| reverse 9 | You stand outside the... enemy |
| reverse 6 | .... he has taken away his property, he has seized. |
| reverse 3 | he entered to..., and he smote it for the earth. |
| reverse 1 | (a kind of profession) |
| obverse 9' | he will die, he will recover. As soon as he has sworn, |
| reverse 8 | What is this? What...? |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
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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