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AMT pl. 048 04 (P394548)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 048 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394548 |
| 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' | [...] ka# [...] | ... mouth ... |
| 2' | [...] _gazi#{sar}_ [...] | ... mustard ... |
| 3' | _DISZ kimin_ [...] ina _kasz_ u _a nag#_-ma# [...] | If ... ... in beer and water, and then ... |
| 4' | _DISZ kimin_ lu# [...] _gaz sim_ ina _a gazi#[{sar}_ ...] | If a sore or ... ...: you crush tamarisk in ghee ... |
| 5' | _la2-mesz_ x [...] _disz_-nisz ana [...] | deficit ... ... to ... |
| 6' | _[DISZ na] gaba_-su szuk-lul-ti# [...] x [...] | If a man’s chest is swollen ... .... |
| 7' | [x] x _zi3 munu4 zi3 gig_ [...] | ... flour, malt, and flour ... |
| 8' | [x x] x x x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | nu# [...] | not ... ... |
| 2' | ha [...] | ... ha |
| 3' | ina _i3#?_ [...] | in oil? ... |
| 4' | lu ina _kasz_ lu ina _gesztin#_ [...] | ... either with beer or with wine ... |
| 5' | _DISZ na_ sza-szal-la-szu2 _gu7-mesz#_-szu2# [...] | If a man’s hips hurt him .... |
| 6' | _{u2}lag a-sza3 had2-a sud2 ki szesz2#? x x [...] | The lag plant in the field ... ... brother(?) |
| 7' | _lal2-mesz_ u masz-qi-a-ti [...] | honey and mašqītu-confection . . |
| 8' | _DISZ na gaba_-su _gu7_-szu2 _sag sza3_-szu2 u2-s,a-rap-szu2 _sza3-mesz_-szu2# _mu2#-[mu2_] | If a man's chest hurts him, his head causes him a stinging pain, his intestines are constantly swollen. |
| 9' | _na bi mur-mesz gig usz11 gu7_ u _nag_ ana _ti_-szu2 {u2}tar-musz x x [...] | That man suffers from sick anus, he will eat and drink. In order to heal him, tarmuš-plant ... ... |
| 10' | _{u2}sikil {u2}in6-usz2_ {u2}kam-ka-du _{u2}ku6 7(disz) u2-hi-a szesz_ [...] | sikillu-plant, ēru-tree, camaraderie, fish, 7 plants for the brother |
| 11' | [lu ina] _kasz_ lu ina _gesztin nu_ pa-tan _nag na4 ku3-babbar_ na4 [...] | You knead them either in beer or wine on an empty stomach. |
| 12' | [x x x] _na4 an-na_ ina _gu2_-szu2 _gar_-an# [...] | You put ... of tin on his neck .... |
| 13' | _[DISZ na gaba]_-su# _sag sza3_-szu2 u _masz-sila3-mesz_-szu2 _gu7-mesz_-szu2 [...] | If a man's chest hurts him, his belly and his kidneys ... |
| 14' | _[dub 2(disz)-kam2 DISZ na] kir4_-szu2 _dugud_ [...] | Second tablet of (the series called) "If a man's cheek is thick" .... |
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- 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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