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AMT pl. 024 05 (P396599)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 024 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396599 |
| 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' | [...] x x u2 [...] | ... ... |
| 2' | [...] x en#? asz _dul_ il-la-tu-szu2 [...] | ... ... the statue of himself ... |
| 3' | [...] ta-ka-par2 _a gazi{sar}_ ana na-hi#-[ri-szu2 ...] | ... you wipe clean. You pour ghee into his nostrils ... |
| 4' | [...] _illu_ ba-lu-hi _pa_ {gesz}pu-[qut-te ...] | ... the river level was low, ... arrows ... |
| 5' | [...] _gaz# sim_ ina _i3-udu hi-hi_ ina _kusz sur_-ri [...] | ... you fumigate him with sulphur from a fat-tailed sheep, you wrap it in a leather bag ... |
| 6' | [...] _ka#_-szu2 ta-ka-par2 _a {gesz}sze-nu2-a_ ana na-hi-ri#-[szu2 ...] | ... you wipe his mouth. You pour water from the cedar into his nostrils ... |
| 7' | [...] x _{szim}li {szim}gur2-gur2 {szim}hab {szim}gam-ma {szim}[x_ ...] | ... lupin, mint, ḫašû-plant, cumin, ...-plant |
| 8' | [...] x _pa_ {gesz}bi-ni _pa {u2}sikil disz_-nisz _gaz sim_ ina _i3-udu hi-hi_ ina _kusz sur#_ [...] | ... ..., a bowl of juniper, kibrītu-plant, you crush (and) sift sulphur in fat from a sheep, in a leather bag ... |
| 9' | [...] _ka#_-szu2 ta-ka-par2 _pa_ {gesz}szu-sze _pa {gesz}ge6-par7 {gesz}haszhur_ ina _a szeg6_-szal _ra_-[su ...] | ... you wipe his mouth. You sprinkle a šuše-tree (and) a black-wood tree with water. You rub him ... |
| 10' | [...] _{szim}gur2-gur2 zi3 gig sze10 tu{muszen}-mesz a-gar-gar masz-[da3_ ...] | ... burāšu-juniper, wheat, malt, pigeons, agargar-plant, gazelle ... |
| 11' | [...] x ina _i3-udu hi-hi_ ina _kusz sur la2_-ma ina-esz [...] | ... ... with fat from a sheep, you wrap it in a leather bag, and then he will get better ... |
| 12' | [... _ka_-szu2] ta#-ka-par2 ina _a {gesz}sze-nu ra_-su _{szim}li {szim}gam-ma illu_ ba-lu-hi [...] | ... you wipe his mouth with water from a cedar tree; juniper, cumin and a flood that was swollen ... |
| 13' | [...] _im#-szu-rin-na disz_-nisz _gaz sim_ ina _i3-udu hi-hi_ ina _kusz sur la2_-ma ina-esz [...] | ... you crush and sieve imshurinnu-plant, you mix it in fat from a sheep, you put it on a piece of leather, and then he will get better. |
| 14' | [... i]-ta#-na#-ka-la-szu2 i-na pi2-szu2 _zi3 sahar munu4_ [...] | ... he will keep him alive. In his mouth, flour, dust and malt ... |
| 15' | [...] x la ti ta-sar2-raq gul-gul-la#-ti#? [...] | ... do not ..., destroy my destruction(?) |
| 16' | [...] _{na4}na-za3-hi-li_ i-lek-ma# [...] | ... zaḫilu-stone went and ... |
| 17' | [...] x x [...] | |
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
- 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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