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BAM 5, 468 (P396015)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 468 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396015 |
| 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] _ti-la gig du3-a-bi_ sza2 _nam-lu2-u18-lu#_ | for the life of the sick man |
| 2 | _ki# {lu2}hal_ u _{lu2}ensi silim_-szu2 _nu si-sa2#_ | with the haruspex and the governor, his health is not good |
| 3 | lu ina _siskur2_ lu ina _nig2-szu-tag-ga_ lu-u ina _du3_-ti _{lu2}hal_-u2-ti | or through extispicy, or through the work of a diviner |
| 4 | lu-u _ze2_ hal-qat lu-u _szu-si_ hal-qat lu-u _uzu-mesz_ ha-t,u-ti | or a cut of the gall bladder, or an obliterated 'finger', or damaged flesh, |
| 5 | ib-ba-szu-szum-ma szu-u2 ina _nu zu_-u2 _gu7_ | he created him, and that man, without knowing, eats. |
| 6 | lu-u _a2-mesz gizkim-mesz hul-mesz gal2-mesz_ | or omens, oaths, and evil signs |
| 7 | lu-u ki-mil-ti _dingir_ u _{d}1(u) 5(disz) ugu_-szu2 _gal2_ | or a curse of god and goddess is upon him. |
| 8 | szum4-ma _{d}lugal-ur3-ra an-ta-szub-ba_ be-en-nu | If Lugal-urra has fallen, he will die. |
| 9 | _{d}lugal-amasz-pa-e3 szu {d}innin-na sag-hul-ha-za_ | Lugal-amaš-pa’e, hand of Innina, the evil-doer |
| 10 | kisz-pu ru-hu-u2 ru-su-u2 ina _su_-szu2 _gal2-mesz_ | witchcraft, spittle, and sulphur are present in his body. |
| 11 | a-na _nigin gig_-szu-nu-ti ina _su_-szu2 _zi_-ma _lu2 ti-la_ | For the rest of their illness, in his body he will die and the man will live. |
| 12 | _du3-du3-bi_ ina qid-da#-[at x x x x x] _{dug#}a-gub2-ba gin_-an | Its ritual: At the end of ... you set up a libation vessel. |
| 13 | ana _sza3 {dug}a-gub2-[ba_ bi-na _{u2}]in-nu-usz_ | In the aguba-vessel, innuš-plant |
| 14 | _{gesz}geszimmar-tur#_ [x x x x x] _{na4#}gug_ | a date palm ... carnelian |
| 15 | _{na4}za-gin3_ gesz# [x x x _{szim}sze]-li# babbar_ | lapis lazuli, ...-wood, white juniper |
| 16 | [i3]-gesz# i3-sag#_ [...] | ... first-class oil ... |
| 17 | [x x] x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | sza ina _lugal-mesz_ a-lik# mah#-ri#-ia# mam#-ma szip-ru szu-a-tu2 la# i-hu-zu | Of the kings who came before me, none had learned this art. |
| 2' | ne2-me-qi2 _{d!}ag_ ti-kip sa-an-tak-ki ma-la ba-asz2-mu | the wisdom of Nabû, the tikup of the sandals, as much as there is |
| 3' | ina _dub-mesz_-ni asz2-t,ur as-niq ab-re-e-ma | I wrote on tablets, checked, collated, and |
| 4' | a-na ta-mar-ti szi-ta-as-si-ia qe2-reb _e2-gal_-ia u2-kin | I established in my palace for my reading and studying. |
| 5' | _nir-gal2-zu nu ur lugal dingir-mesz an-szar2_ | Your authority is not a dog, king of the gods, Ashur |
| 6' | man-nu sza2 _tum3_ u3 lu-u _mu_-szu2 it-ti _mu_-ia i-szat,-t,a-ru | Whoever carries this tablet off or writes his name alongside my name, |
| 7' | _an-szar2_ u _{d}nin-lil2 ag-gisz _mir_-isz lisz-kip-u2-szu-ma | may Ashur and Ninlil overthrow him like a cloud. |
| 8' | _mu_-szu2 _numun_-szu2 ina _kur_ li-hal-li-qu | may his name and his seed disappear from the land. |
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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