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BM.59876 (ebl:BM.59876)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | BM.59876 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.59876 |
| Museum no. | BM.59876 |
| Collection | Sippar |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 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' | Elum eats the city, he eats it together |
| obverse 8' | The lady of Inana does not have a heart for you, it is my heart that is filled with lustration. |
| obverse 5' | He lays the garments in order to be cold, he places them to the lord. |
| obverse 6' | In the wide fields he sat down, and laid down to the lord. |
| reverse 9 | Who is it that has entrusted me? |
| reverse 3 | My afflicted heart does not have a happy heart. |
| reverse 6 | My heart is not present in the harbor(?) like a great river |
| obverse 3' | oxen slaughtered, sheepfold slaughtered, sheepfold slaughtered, to the lord |
| obverse 2' | Lord, supreme hand, supreme radiance, who lays the en-ship to the lord |
| reverse 1 | From my eyes/eyes(?) in the midst of heaven(?) |
| reverse 10 | who is there with me? |
| reverse 7 | Who will make your heart happy? |
| obverse 7' | My son, there is no joy in my heart, from my eyes |
| obverse 1' | The lord sits down with the liar and the liar |
| reverse 4 | from the pure... of my eyes |
| reverse 5 | My... does not have my heart |
| reverse 2 | my sweet heart(?) |
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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