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BAM 6, 530 (P396377)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 530 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396377 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x sza2 _kasz#_ [...] | ... ... of beer ... |
| 2' | [...] x [...] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] x [x x x] _mud2_ ina _giri17#_-[szu2 ...] | ... ... blood in his feet ... |
| 4' | _e2-gal {disz}an-szar2-du3-a lugal szu2 man kur an-[szar2{ki}]_ | Palace of Esarhaddon, king of the universe, lord of the land of Assur, |
| 5' | sza _{d}muati_ u {d}tasz-me-tu4 _gesztu-min_ ra-pa-asz2-tu isz-ru#?-[ku-szu2] | whom Nabû and Tašmētu had bestowed wisdom |
| 6' | e-hu-uz-zu _gesztu-min_ na-mir-tu ni-siq t,up-szar-ru#-[ti] | He acquired for himself supreme wisdom, the pinnacle of scholarship. |
| 7' | sza2# ina# _lugal-mesz_-ni a-lik mah-ri-ia mim-ma szip-ru szu-a-tu2 la i-hu-[uz-zu] | Which none of the kings who came before me had learned, |
| 8' | bul-t,i _ta ugu_-hi a-di _umbin_ liq-ti _bar-mesz_ | Prescriptions from top to bottom, gleanings from outside, |
| 9' | ta-hi-zu nak-lu a-zu-gal-lu-tu _{d}masz_ u _{d}gu-la ma-la ba-asz2-[mu] | “The enemy, the great medical knowledge of Ninurta and Gula, as much as there is |
| 10' | ina t,up-pa-ni asz2#-t,ur as-niq [x x x] | I wrote on tablets, checked, ... |
| 11' | a-na ta-mar-ti szi-ta-as-si qe2#-[reb _e2-gal_-ia u2-kin] | I established in my palace for my reading and recitation. |
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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