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BAM 6, 560 (P394491)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 560 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394491 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Medical |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
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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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | [...] x x _sud2_ | ... ... it rains. |
| 2' | [...] _kur#-ra_ | ... of the land |
| 3' | [...] sah#-le2-e | ... cress |
| 4' | [... _an]-dah-sze_ | ... donkeys |
| 5' | [...] x _sim_ | ... ... the north wind |
| 6' | [...] x _imgaga2_ | ... ... will die. |
| 7' | [...] x _sar_ | ... ... written |
| 8' | [...] _mah_ | ... will be great. |
| 9' | [...] x tin | ... wine |
| 10' | [...] x | |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | _{d}asal-lu2-[hi_ ...] | Asalluhi |
| 2' | _tu6-tu6#_ [...] | ... incantation .... |
| 3' | ina _du11-ga_ [...] | At the command of .... |
| 4' | _he2-en-ti-la_ [...] | may he live .... |
| 5' | _ka-inim-ma DISZ na_ [...] | Incantation formula: If a man .... |
| 6' | _DISZ na gaba_-su# [...] | If a man’s chest .... |
| 7' | ina _i3-udu hi-hi_ [...] | with sheep fat ... |
| 8' | _DISZ na gaba_-su# [...] | If a man’s chest .... |
| 9' | x _gid2#?_ x [...] | ... length ... ... |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1' | _DISZ ki-min_ x [...] | If ditto: ... .... |
| 2' | ana _kasz-sag pa 5(disz) kisal_ [...] | For prime-quality beer, 5 courtyards ... |
| 3' | 2(disz) _kisal {u2}har-har#_ [...] | 2 courtyards of harhar-plant |
| 4' | ta-sza2-hal 1/3(disz) _sila3 lal3?_ [...] | you will discard 1/3 qû of honey. |
| 5' | _{u2}kur-ra nu_ pa#-[tan ...] | The mountain plant is not open ... |
| 6' | _egir_-szu2 _nag#?_ [...] | After that, you ... ... |
| 7' | hu-ra-at# [...] | “Fear of ...,… |
| 8' | _DISZ ki-min suhusz#_ [...] | If ditto: the base of .... |
| 9' | _{szim}bala_ [...] | Balāšu-plant |
| 10' | _udu-nita2_ x [̣...] | a ram ... |
| 11' | _nag_-szu2 en2#?_ [...] | You anoint him, incantation? ... |
| 12' | _DISZ# ki#-min#_ sah-le2-e x [...] | If ditto: cress ... .... |
| 13' | ina _a sud2 nu_ pa-[tan ...] | you knead them in water, without dining ... |
| 14' | ina _a2_ tu-szap#-[ra-szu2 ...] | You send him at the right side .... |
| 15' | _la2-mesz_ u [...] | deficits and ... |
| 16' | _DISZ na gaba_-su u _masz-sila3#_ [...] | If a man’s chest and shoulder blade ... |
| 17' | _nu_ pa-tan [...] | Without interruption .... |
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | [...] ti#? | ... life(?) |
| 2' | [...] _hu_-ia? | ... my? |
| 3' | [...] x la | ... not |
| 4' | [...] x asz2-mu | ... I have heard |
| 5' | [...] x _gan2_-ma | ... ... the area |
| 6' | [...] x-ia u2-kin | ... established ... |
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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