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BM.43717 (ebl:BM.43717)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.43717 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.43717 |
| Museum no. | BM.43717 |
| Collection | Babylon |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Eršaḫuĝa |
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 13' | ... destroyed(?) |
| obverse 5' | ...,..., |
| obverse 3' | ... heaven |
| obverse 4' | ... lord |
| reverse 4 | The era priestess... the corpses |
| obverse 6' | ...... |
| reverse 2 | May your heart, like the birth mother, be restored to its place! |
| reverse 9 | the chief of the gods |
| obverse 8' | ......... |
| obverse 9' | ... weeping |
| obverse 10' | In the midst of lamentation, in the midst of lamentation |
| reverse 3 | As if (it was) a mother born to birth, a father born to birth, in that place |
| reverse 1 | ... lord |
| reverse 6 | Written and checked according to the original. |
| obverse 7' | ......... |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 11' | ...... |
| obverse 2' | ... the heart of the wall |
| obverse 14' | sea |
| reverse 5 | It is a tablet 18/28 |
| obverse 15' | ...... |
| reverse 8 | Tablet of Nabu- |
| reverse 7 | It is the year in which Esagil... |
| obverse 12' | sacrifices... |
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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