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BAM 5, 464 (P394522)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 464 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394522 |
| 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [ana _zi]-ku5#-ru-de3_ szu-a-tu ana _na_ szu-a-tu4# | for that fugitive to that nanny |
| 2' | [a]-na# _nu_ sa22-na-qi2 ina sze-er-ti3 | in order not to raise a claim in the morning |
| 3' | _[numun] {gesz#}haszhur gesz-gi_ li-'i-is {u2}tar-musz _min_ | seeds of apple, reed, lī'iš-plant, tarmuša-plant ditto |
| 4' | {u2#}pur-da-ma li-'i-is ina mu-us,-la-li | Send (them) down, so that they may eat in the soup. |
| 5' | {u2#}im-hur-lim {u2}im-hur-asz-la _gu7_ | He eats imḫur-līm-plant (and) imhur-ašla-plant |
| 6' | ina _ge6_ szu-a-tu4 _{u2}in-nu-usz_ <ina> _a gi szul-hi nag_ | During that night, you libate šunû-plant in water, reed and filtered beer. |
| 7' | _zi-ku5-ru-de_ ana _lu2 bi en ti nu te_-szu2 | a judgment against that man will not approach him. |
| 8' | _DISZ_ a-na _lu2 zi-ku5-ru-da_ sza _{d}nin-kilim_ e-pu-us-su | If for a man a ‘cutting-of-the-throat’ performed by Ninkilim |
| 9' | _zi-ku5-ru-de3_ szu-u2 sza _iti 7(disz)-kam_ | he is the guarantor for 7 months. |
| 10' | _{d}nin-kilim_ ina _e2 lu2 igi_ | Ninkilim is seen in the man’s house. |
| 11' | _{d}nin-kilim_ szu-a-tu4 sza ina _e2 lu2_ in-nam-ru | that Ninkilim, who in the man’s house was seen |
| 12' | _szu-ti_-qe2 ana _igi {mul}mar-gid2-da gar_-an | takes place in front of the Wagon. |
| 13' | _lu2_ sza _zi-ku5-ru-da_ ep-szu2-szu2# | a man who a thief has performed |
| 14' | ana _igi {mul}mar-gid2-da du10-gam_-su _lu2_ szu-a-tu4 | to the front of the Wagon: that man will die. |
| 15' | ana# _ugu {d}nin-kilim giri17_-szu2 tu-szaq-da-as#-su# | To Ninkilim you make his nose tremble |
| 16' | [ina _igi] {mul#}mar#-gid2-da_ ana _ugu {d}nin-kilim_ szu-a-[tu4] | in front of the Wagon: that is above Ninkilim. |
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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