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BM.62922 (ebl:BM.62922)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal), Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.62922 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.62922 |
| Museum no. | BM.62922 |
| Collection | Sippar |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations > Šuʾila (Emesal) |
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' | esheshese |
| obverse 13' | When you have chosen me, you have sworn by heaven like heaven |
| obverse 6' | Beloved of your great divinity, raise his head high in his holy cult center |
| reverse 7 | ... |
| obverse 8' | Where there is peace, you will acquire... |
| reverse 10 | The great mother Ninlil, who loves the E-ara, the one who provides for the E-kur, the heir of the E-ki-ur temple |
| reverse 11 | (If) he is a great mother, ditto he is well, the house is well, the house is well, the house is well, the house is well. |
| obverse 11' | 'Aglula and aggina priests' |
| reverse 14 | May the water of the city of Nippur be poured out for you |
| obverse 5' | ... who dwells... |
| obverse 12' | ... who hears..... |
| obverse 14' | ... to the utterance of your pure name, who like heaven... |
| reverse 4 | In all the lands, like a wild bull, it is a wild bull. |
| reverse 1 | Great Mountain Enlil |
| reverse 2 | The great one, the god Enlil, the awe-inspiring radiance of his head, the apsû, the pure apsû, the udu-priestess, |
| obverse 3' | In your watch |
| reverse 3 | Like wild bulls living in the mountains |
| reverse 8 | like a star of heaven standing in a midst of darkness |
| reverse 5 | like the horns of Utu’s star |
| obverse 4' | The one who sustains life |
| reverse 13 | May he restore it. May he restore it. |
| obverse 16' | The black-headed people will raise their heads. |
| obverse 9' | You recite the incantation and |
| reverse 6 | his hero, like a ama-demon, he constantly seeks out |
| obverse 15' | he set up a saggig offering |
| reverse 9 | Like a snare of the heavens, a flood is a flood, |
| obverse 10' | The evil will destroy you... |
| reverse 12 | May the mouths of a man be good for you, may the mouth of a man be good for you |
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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