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AMT pl. 016 04 (P396382)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 016 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396382 |
| 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' | [x x x] _{u2#}ab2#-duh# ta#-pa#-as, ina _i3#-gesz#_ [...] | You crush and sift ... alum, you mix it in pressed oil ... |
| 2' | _u2#_ a-szi-i _kud_-si _numun_ {u2}kam2-ka-di _sud2#_ [...] | You pound ašû-plant, kudsu-plant (and) kamkadu-plant seed. |
| 3' | {u2#}ka-man-ta _sud2_ ina _i3-gesz szesz2 u2 babbar#_ [...] | You pound kamantu-plant, you mix it in pressed oil, white plant ... |
| 4' | _{u2#}ha-szu-u2 {u2}hab za3-hi-li_ {u2}zi-bu-u2 _u2 babbar#_ [...] | Hāšû-plant, ḫašālu-plant (a kind of juniper), zaḥilu-plant and white plant |
| 5' | _szim#-bi-ku3-gi tesz2-bi_ ta-sak3 ina _i3-gesz_ u _kasz-sag nag-mesz#_ [...] | You pound together šimbi-kugi-aromatic, you drench them in oil and prime-quality beer ... |
| 6' | _isz-ka-gi-im-ma an-ki-min : szu-uh-di-am_ [...] | “Ishkagima Ankimma means ... |
| 7' | x ud asz szim hi isz-ka-ki-im-ma te-esz-a tu6# [en2]_ | ... he poured out a libation of juniper, and then he performed the incantation. |
| 8' | _ka# inim-ma_ a-szu-u2 _dab_-su-ma _a-mesz_ ina nap-pa-sze-szu2 _du#_-[ak ...] | The mouth of an incantation is seized by him and he drinks water in his meal .... |
| 9' | _sig3#_-as-su u _sag-ki-mesz_-szu2 _gu7-[mesz_ ...] | his hem and his temples hurt ... |
| 10' | [x x] _gi# du10-ga_ u _mud2 {gesz}erin disz_-nisz _hi-hi en2_ 3(disz)-szu2 ana _sza3#_ [...] | ... good reed and mud from cedar you mix together. You recite the incantation three times into ... |
| 11' | [x x x] x _dub sag-du_-su u _gaba_-su [...] | ... his head and his chest ... |
| 12' | [x x x] x _dul_-szu2 bah-ra _gu7_ bah-ra _nag_-ma [...] | ... ... his statue will eat, he will drink, and .... |
| 13' | [x x x x x] _dab#_-su {u2}igi_-lim _{u2}kur-kur_ [...] | ... seized him, tamarisk, mountain plant ... |
| 14' | [x x x x _{u2}]masz#-tab-ba_ ina _i3-gesz szesz2#_ [...] | ... maštabû-plant in pressed oil ... |
| 15' | [... it-ta]-mu#-uh [...] | ... he shook ... |
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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