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AMT pl. 054 01 (P394529)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 054 01 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394529 |
| 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 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)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o i | ||
| 1' | [...] x x ⸢nu⸣ [...] | ... enû-plant |
| 2' | [...] ⸢MEŠ⸣-ma ⸢TI⸣ [(x)] | ... they are released, and the release(?) |
| 3' | [...] x x [...] ⸢ana⸣ ŠA₃ ŠUB-di NE-su x [(x)] | ... ... ana-e23 ... his ... |
| 4' | ⸢I₃⸣.GIŠ tal-tap-pat ⸢IGI u GABA 3 UD-me LAL₂-su-⸢ma {u₂}NU⸣.LUH.HA SUD₂ ina KAŠ SAG x [x (x)] | You pound ēšû-mint, you bandage (his head) with ‘face-of-the-mouth’-plant and breast-bone for 3 days, then you pound nuḫurtu-plant, you smear (the mixture) in prime-quality beer. |
| 5' | DIŠ KIMIN {u₂}HAB NUMUN {giš}GADA {u₂}GIR₃ UGA{mušen} {šim}BULUH ILLU {šim}BULUH {⸢šim⸣}[x x (x)] | If ditto: ḫašû-plant, seed from a linen (bag), šēdu-plant (a kind of sedge), tamarisk, sulphur, resin of a plant, resin from ēru-tree (a plant) |
| 6' | {u₂}IGI-lim {u₂}IGI.NIŠ {u₂}NU.LUH.HA NAGA SI mal-ma-liš SUD₂ ina KAŠ tara-bak I₃.GIŠ x [x x (x)] | You pound imḫur-līm-plant ('faces a thousand' plant), imhur-ešrâ-plant, nuhurtu ('spurge') (and) malmālu ('horned alkali') together, you stir them into beer, you anoint him with oil. |
| 7' | NUMUN {u₂}ŠAKIRA SUD₂ ina I₃.NUN.NA HI.HI DU₃.A.BI SU-šu₂ ŠEŠ₂-MEŠ bah-ru-su ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x (x)] | You pound seeds of šamaštu-plant, you mix them in ghee. All this, his body will be satisfied. ēru-plant |
| 8' | DIŠ NA MUR-MEŠ GIG DABIN {šim}LI ana IGI NE {giš}KIŠI₁₆ ta-sar₂-raq ana UR₂-šu₂ [x x x x x] | If a man is sick with mucus (suālu): you strew juniper in front of a cedar tree (and) you pour it into his lap. |
| 9' | u na-hi-ri-šu₂ KU₄-ub uš-ta-as₂-ʾa-al ina A {giš}šu-ni₇ RA-su I₃ hal-[ṣi x x x x] | and his friend entered. He washes himself with water from a cedar tree, he rubs him with filtered oil |
| 10' | ra-bi-ik ZI₃.KUM KI I₃.UDU GU₇-MEŠ {u₂}KUR.RA SUD₂ ina KAŠ ⸢SAG⸣ [x x x x (x)] | You pound saḫlû-cress with fat, (and) you libate it in beer (with) esag-e23-plant. |
| 11' | DIŠ KIMIN {u₂}KUR.RA SUD₂ ana IGI NE {giš}KIŠI₁₆ ta-sar₂-raq ana UR₂-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x x x x] | If DITTO, you pound nīnû-plant, you scatter it in front of embers of juniper, you pour it into his anus |
| 12' | u na-hi-ri-šu₂ KU₄-ub uš-ta-as₂-ʾa-al ina A {giš}šu-ni₇ ⸢RA⸣-[su x x x x x] | and his companion enters, he lies down in the sap of a reed-bed . |
| 13' | ina I₃.NUN DU₃ SU-šu₂ ŠEŠ₂-MEŠ NUMUN GADA SUD₂ lu ina ⸢GA lu⸣ [x x x x x] | You make a suppository in ghee. You pound seed from linen, either in ēšakku-plant or in ...-plant |
| 14' | 3 UD-me LAL₂-su-ma LAL₃ I₃.GIŠ hal-ṣa EME-šu₂ DAB-bat x [...] | You bandage him for 3 days and he will seize his tongue with honey (and) refined oil. |
| 15' | [DIŠ] ⸢KIMIN⸣ x x x x {⸢u₂}KUR.RA⸣ [U₂] ⸢BABBAR⸣ [...] | If ditto a plant ... ēru-plant, plant of white plant |
| r ii | ||
| 1' | KA ⸢A.AB⸣.[BA ...] | The gate of the E-ab-e-ba temple |
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- 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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