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AMT pl. 005 01 (P394492)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 005 01 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394492 |
| 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 | ||
| 1' | [...] x x _ge6# nim# sud2# x [...] | ... ... Night of the 8th, very overcast ... |
| 2' | [x x] _{u2#}ga-rasz#{sar#} {kusz#}e-sir sumun disz_-nisz _had2-a_ tur-ar2 x [...] | ... arugula, a sandal made of ēriš-wood, small ... |
| 3' | _an-na a-bar2 an-zah disz_-nisz _hi-hi_ 1(disz)-szu2 2(disz)-szu2 [...] | Anzah, anzahhu-sulphur, one-third, two-thirds ... |
| 4' | _DISZ kimin im-sahar-na4-kur-ra {u2}lag gan2 sud2_ ina _i3 {gesz}erin hi-hi_ x [...] | If a man’s head is covered with imsaḫur-nakurru-spurge: you dry and pound lupine from a field in oil from cedar ... . |
| 5' | _DISZ na_ ina _tur_-szu2 _sag-du_-su sze-bi-ta2 _diri_ ana _sig2 babbar# ge6# x x x da# [...] | If a man, when he is swollen, his head is full of barley: you pour it into a white wool. Night ... .... |
| 6' | _igira2{muszen}_ : laq-laq-qa lu-u x [...] | The igira bird (means) : to take or ... . |
| 7' | ina _izi szeg6_-szal gul-gul-la-szu2-nu _ti_-qi2 ina _i3#_ [...] | You burn them with a fire of black smoke, you mix them in oil, ... |
| 8' | _en2 sag-ki en-na_ 7(disz)-szu2 x an# [x x x] x x [...] | Incantation: "Sagki enna 7 times ... .... |
| 9' | _en2 sag-ki en-na szid_-nu [x x] x [...] | Incantation: "How long until you recite the incantation? ... .... |
| 10' | _DISZ kimin si dara3-masz ti_-qi2 _ki giri3-pad#-ra2#_ x [...] | If you take kimin-plant, sulphur from a gazelle's horn, ... with the footstool .... |
| 11' | ina _izi_ u2-szar2-rap _ki i3#_ x [...] | he ignited with fire, when oil ... ... |
| 12' | 3(disz) _u4_-mi _sag-du_-su _lal2_-ma# [...] | You bandage his head for 3 days and .... |
| 13' | _DISZ kimin {u2}ma2-eresz4-ma2_-le-e _sag-du_ a x x x [...] | If a man’s head ... erešma-līm-plant |
| 14' | _sag-du buru5{muszen} ge6 sag-du buru5-habrud#-da{muszen} sag#-du#_ [...] | The black head of a raven, the head of an eagle, and the head ... |
| 15' | _disz_-nisz tur-ar2 _sud2_ ina _i3-gesz du10-ga hi-hi sag-du_-su _sar#_-ab#-ma# [...] | You dry, crush, and sieve suluppu-plant in good oil. You shave his head and .... |
| 16' | _DISZ kimin_ a-a-ar2-_dingir dab_-bat _sza3_-szu2 _bad_-ti _tun3_ szi# hu# x [...] | If ditto: he is seized by ayyar-ilu-disease: his heart will become ill; ... .... |
| 17' | 2(disz)-na _sza3_-szu2 tu-tar te-te-kip ina _ki_ s,ar#-hi x x x 7(disz) _u4_-mi{mesz} [...] | You recite two times (the incantation) “Its inside is swollen’, you sweep it with a cloth ... 7 days ... |
| 18' | sza2 _sza3_-szu2 _ti_-qi2 _had2-a_ tur-ar2# _sud2_ ina _i3-gesz du10-ga_ [...] | You libate sweet emmer beer, you scatter it, you mix it in good oil ... |
| 19' | _sag-du_-su _sar_-ab 7(disz) _u4_-me _esz#-mesz lal2-mesz#_ [...] | Write his (own) head in a written document. 7 days of new omens, ... |
| 20' | _sig2 babbar ge6 en lal2_-usz _en2_ ki-a-am _szid_-nu | White wool, night and day, until honey you recite this incantation. |
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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