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BM.72126 (ebl:BM.72126)
CANONICAL > Literature > Lamentations, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM.72126 |
|---|---|
| ID | ebl:BM.72126 |
| Museum no. | BM.72126 |
| Collection | Sippar |
| Language | 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7' | In the house of the akanba ua, the house that is to be built, my beloved temple |
| obverse 8' | the young woman |
| reverse 5' | In order to build a house, in order to build a house, in order to build a house, my beloved temple |
| obverse 4' | ...... |
| reverse 6' | in the gigurba house |
| obverse 6' | of the young men |
| obverse 7' | of the young men |
| reverse 2' | of the young men |
| obverse 1' | ... |
| obverse 5' | ... |
| obverse 3' | of the god |
| reverse 4' | My bird, you do not know a sug tree, you do not know it |
| reverse 1' | the mother |
| obverse 9' | the young woman |
| reverse 8' | ... cattlepen |
| reverse 3' | my small birds are not swollen |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
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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