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BAM 6, 547 (P397331)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 547 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397331 |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| reverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | [...] x [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [...] ina _kasz-sag#_ [x x x] | ... in prime-quality beer ... |
| 3' | [...] di#-ik-me-na [x x x] | ... the agreement ... |
| 4' | [...] x [...] TE x [x x] | ... ... approach ... |
| 5' | [x x x x] x _sze-mesz_ ina _de3_ tu-qat-tar# [x x] _ka#_-szu2 na-hi-ri-szu2 x [x x] | ... barley, in the procession you will present. ... his mouth, his nostrils ... |
| 6' | [x x] x _murub4_-ta sza2 _nam-lu2-u18-lu_ x x-ri te-'-il _en u4 2(disz)#?-[kam2]_ | ... in the middle of humanity ..., until the 2nd? day |
| 7' | [x x] _a# sud2 ki a gaz nag_-szu2 _u4_-ma _nag u4#!_-[ma?]-szam#-ma ana _ki_ la tu-na-tak#? | ... you smear it on a dry place, you anoint him with it, then he will drink it again and again, and then you will not return to the place. |
| 8' | [x] x _zi3 sze-sa-a zi3 munu6 sim#?_ sah-le2-e qa-lu-te# _gazi{sar}_ qa-lu-te ni-kip-tu2 | ... barley flour, malt flour, saḫlû-cress, qallutu-flour, mustard, nikliptu |
| 9' | [x x] di# mu#? {u2}tar-musz8!(RI) _{szim}gur2-gur2 {szim}li {u2}kur-kur 1(u) u2-hi-a szesz tesz2-bi sud2_ | ... tarmuš plant, mint, juniper, kurkurru-plant, 10 bundles of plants you mix together |
| 10' | x x x [x] x tara#?-bak ina _kusz-edin sur u4_-ma-szam-ma x ina _kusz 1(u) 5(disz) u4_-me _lal2_ | ... you heat up ... in a leather bag. You wrap the day in ... leather bags for 15 days. |
| 11' | _en la2_ usz [x x] x ina _u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam2 la2_-szu2 ta-tab-bal _u4_-me-szam-ma _{u2}asz-tal2-tal2 sud2_ | Until he recovers, ... on the 15th day you carry off his deficit. On the second day you pound aštaltal-plant. |
| 12' | ina _i3_ hal-s,a pa-as,# [x] _eme#_-szu2 _dab_-bat _nag_-szu2 _a {gesz}sze-na2-a kum2_-ti _ra_-su x _ti#_ | with filtered oil he sucks his tongue, he drinks it, water from šenānu-tree (‘cress’), his appetite ... |
| 13' | DISZ na gaba_-su _gig#_-at# _ninda_ u _a_ ina _gaba#_-szu2 _gub-mesz_-zu ha-ah-ha _tuku-mesz_ | If a man's chest is sick, and bread and water stand in his chest: he will acquire hahha-disease. |
| 14' | t,up-pi 1(disz)-kam2#-me DISZ na kiri4_-szu2 _dugud_ | 1st tablet of "If a man’s nose is heavy" |
| 15' | _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, |
| 16' | sza _{d}muati_ u {d}tasz-me-tu4 _gesztu-min_ ra#-pa#-asz2-tu [isz-ru-ku-szu2?] | who Nabû and Tašmētu gave him wide understanding |
| 17' | i-hu-uz-zu _gesztu-min_ na-mir-tu [...] | They listened attentively to the scribal art, ... |
| 18' | sza ina _lugal-mesz_-ni a-lik mah-ri-ia mim-ma# [szip-ru szu-a-tu ...] | which among the kings who came before me, all this work ... |
| 19' | bul-t,i _ta ugu_-hi a-di _umbin_ liq-ti _bar#-[mesz_ ...] | Prescriptions from top to bottom, eponymy of ..., |
| 20' | a-zu-gal-lu-tu _{d}nin-urta_ u {d}gu-la# [...] | Great medical knowledge of Ninurta and Gula |
| 21' | ina t,up-pa-a-ni asz-t,ur as-niq x [...] | I have written on tablets, checked, |
| 22' | 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 recitation. |
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- 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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