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AMT pl. 004 06 (P397518)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 004 06 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397518 |
| 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-szi# _sig2# ugu#-dul#-bi# gun3#-na#-a# {tug2#}nig2#-dara2#-szu#-lal2#_ [...] | ... ... its wool is speckled, a nigdašû-garment ... |
| 2' | [...] _{szim#}gur2-gur2_ {u2}ka-man-tu ni-kip-tu2 _ka a-ab-ba_ x [...] | ... mint, kanaktu-plant, nikiptu-spurge in the mouth of the sea ... |
| 3' | [...] tu-ba-har-ma ina _{tug2}bar-si sag-ki_-su _la2_ [...] | ... you heat up, and in a cloak you tie his head ... |
| 4' | [...] _uh2#-{d}id2 pesz10-{d}id2 ka a-ab-ba_ {na4}mu-s,a _disz_-nisz [...] | ... Uḫu-Iddin, Peš-Idid, the mouth of the sea, muṣu-stone ... |
| 5' | [... _i3]-gesz# {gesz}erin hi-hi_ ina _{sig2}he2-me-da nigin_-mi _sag-ki_-su tara-kas2 [...] | You wrap ... with oil and juniper mixture in a hem (and) you tie it to his temple ... |
| 6' | _[DISZ] kimin# gurun gesz a-ab-ba_ {na4}mu-s,a {na4}zalag2_ ni-kip-tu2 _nita2_ u# _[munus]_ | If a man and a woman are affected by kimin-disease: sap of sea algae, mūṣu-stone, lapis lazuli, nikiptu-stone |
| 7' | _ka# a-ab-ba {na4}gug_ me-luh-ha _tesz2-bi_ ina _kusz du3-du3_ ina _gu2_-szu2 _gar_-ma [x x] | The mouth of the sea is filled with meluḫa-stone. Its ritual: with a leather bag you put it on his neck and ... |
| 8' | _[DISZ kimin] si# masz2-zu_ sza2 _gub2_ tur-ar2 _si dara2-masz_ tur-ar2 _tug2_ a-ru-usz-te ta-man-[za-'a] | If the horns of a gazelle's horn are small: you shave the tails of an eagle's hair; you wash the arid garment. |
| 9' | [tu-usz]-ku#-um ni-ip-s,i _{u2}kur-ra na4_ ga-bi-i _{gesz}dih3 numun {gesz}szinig#_ | You set up a nipṣītu-vessel of kurru-plant, alum, diḫu-wood, seeds of tamarisk. |
| 10' | [ni-kip]-tu2# _nita2_ u _munus ka a-ab-ba numun {gesz}ma-nu_ {u2}tar-musz _{u2}igi_-lim _{u2}igi#-[nisz]_ | nikiptu-spurge of a man and a woman of the mouth of the sea, seed of tamarisk, tarmuš-plant, alum, ibex |
| 11' | [... {u2}]ka#-man-tu2 _suhusz {gesz}nam-tar_-ri _nita2_ {na4}mu-s,a _{u2}[lal]_ | kamantu-plant, the base of a namtarru-tree, a man, mūṣu-stone (and) lalû-plant |
| 12' | [... _u2]-mesz#_ an#-nu#-te _disz_-nisz _sud2_ ina _i3-gesz hi-hi_ x [x x x ina] _kusz#_ | ... these plants, you pound them together, in oil, ... in a leather bag. |
| 13' | [...] x x 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
- 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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