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BAM 2, 128 (P285225)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Assur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 2, 128 |
|---|---|
| ID | P285225 |
| Museum no. | VAT 09955 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Medical |
| Find spot | Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) |
| Coordinates | 35.4557, 43.2611 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | _en2_ [...] | Incantation: ... |
| 4' | _u2?_ [...] | ... ... |
| 5' | am? [...] | Wild bull(?) |
| 6' | _a_ x[...] | son of ... |
| 7' | sza2 [...] | of ... |
| 8' | ab2 [...] | cow |
| 9' | x [...] | |
| 10' | _pa_ x [...] | ... ... |
| 11' | _en2_ hal#? [...] | Incantation: ... .... |
| 12' | sza2 x [...] | who ... |
| 13' | bu#? [...] | ... ... |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | [pa]-a# la _[gar_-in ...] | ... is not present .... |
| 2' | x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] | |
| 4' | [ki-ma szar-ti qa]-tan-ma [la i-du ina _uzu-mesz_ ...] | Like a queen, I do not know. In the flesh . . |
| 5' | [ul i-sza2-a] pa-na [u ...] | he does not have face and ... |
| 6' | [...] | |
| 7' | [ra]-pa#-asz-tu! [u sza-szal-li] | wide and broad |
| 8' | [s,a-bit sza2 _nenni a nenni_ pu]-hur ka-[li-szu2-nu _sa-gal_] | sworn by so-and-so and son of so, the totality of all of them. |
| 9' | [...] ka-li#-[szu2-nu?] | ... all of them |
| 10' | [ul-tu _u4_-um i'-al]-du# ul#-la#-[nu-um-ma] | From the day he became ill until the following day, |
| 11' | [ib-ni-szu] _dingir#_-[szu] | he created him, his god |
| 12' | [... {d}]e2#-a a-na pu-[x-x] | ... Ea to ... |
| 13' | [...] x a-mi-lu-ti# | ... of humanity |
| 14' | [...] x?-di?-ma a-na szup-szu-hi | ... and for a supšuhu-festival |
| 15' | sza2 a-mi-lu-ti | of humanity, |
| 16' | [x] _in#-dab in-kesz2 in-du8_ | ... he seized, bound, and released. |
| 17' | lip-pa-t,ir lit,-t,a-rid lik-ka-mi | May it be released, may it be re[moved] from my body. |
| 18' | _en2_ ul ia-ut-tu-un | Incantation: “I do not know, |
| 19' | _en2_ {d}e2-a u _{d}asal-lu2-hi_ | Incantation: Ea and Asalluhi |
| 20' | _en2_ {d}da-mu u {d}gu-la | Incantation: O Damu and Gula |
| 21' | _en2 {d}nin-girima3 en en2_ | Incantation: O Ningirima, incantation priest |
| 22' | szu-nu iq-bu-ma ana-ku u2-sza2-an-ni | They said: "I will restore it." |
| 23' | szap-lisz lit-ta-s,i-ma e-lisz a-a i-li | Let him go down below, so that he may not go up. |
| 24' | _eme-hul-gal2 bar-sze3 he2-em-ta-gub_ | May the evil tongue stand outside. |
| 25' | _ka-inim-ma sa-gal-la-kam2_ | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer. |
| 26' | _du3-[du3]-bi sig2-aka3 sila4-nim_ u _munus-sila4-nim_ | Its ritual: wool for a lamb and a female lamb |
| 27' | ina _sa# masz-da3 nu-nu {na4}szu_-u _nita2_ u _munus {na4}gug_ | in the middle of a gazelle's horn a man and a woman of carnelian |
| 28' | _[{na4}]pa#_ {na4}ia2-ni-bu _{na4}szuba_ {na4}zi-bitu | agate, alabaster, carnelian, zibitu-stone |
| 29' | [{na4}]ab3-asz-mu _{na4}zalag2 {na4}kur_-nu _dab-ba_ | Abašmu-stone, lapis lazuli, and mountain stone were seized. |
| 30' | [{na4}]kak#-ku-sak-ku _{na4}pesz4-a-ab-ba e3_-ak | I made kakkusakku-stone and ebony. |
| 31' | [{u2}]kur-ka-nam ina _sig2 sa5_ 7(disz) lip-pi tala2-pap | You mix kurkanû-plant in red wool, you scatter (it) 7 times. |
| 32' | ina# gesz-szi-szu tara-kas2-ma i-szal-lim | You set up with his yoke and he will recover. |
| 33' | _[enuru_ kisz]-pu zi-ru-tu4 it-ta-s,u-u ana ki-di | The city, where witchcraft and magic have been carried off, has turned into a mound. |
| 34' | [x x x] x szim-ma-tu4 sza3 _lu2_ | ... aromatics of a man |
| 35' | [usz-te-li _ki]-sikil_ ina _ur2 dam_-sza2 | the maiden in the lap of her spouse |
| 36' | [usz-tel-li _gurusz]_ ina _ur2 ki-sikil_ | The young man in the lap of the maiden |
| 37' | [u _ki-sikil_ ina] _ur2# gurusz_ | and a young woman in the lap of a man |
| 38' | [...] x x | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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