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AMT pl. 001 03 (P397594)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AMT pl. 001 03 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397594 |
| 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 [...] | |
| 2' | [...] u2#? ana _sag-du_-szu2# [...] | ... to his head ... |
| 3' | [... _du10-ga]_-tum# ina _su na gal2_-szi ana# _dab# du10#-[ga_ ...] | ... good ... is present in the man's body: for a good capture .... |
| 4' | [...] _sag# nindu_ ana _ugu_ ta-za-ru3 _lal2#_ [...] | ... the head of the ninû-flour you pour over it, honey ... |
| 5' | [...] _{na4#}MIN-babbar {na4}MIN-ge6_ ta-sak3 ina _i3#-nun# hi-hi ugu_-szu2 _szesz2#_ sa#-[ar-'i ...] | ... you pound white (and) black (stones), you mix them in ghee, you anoint him with sar’u-plant ... |
| 6' | [...] _mud2-mesz_-szu2 _ti_-qi2 _ugu_-szu2 _szesz2 ur-me-e_ sza2 _e2-gar8_ ta-sak3 x [...] | ... you wash his blood. You rub him with urmê-plant from the courtyard. ... ... |
| 7' | [...] _szid_-nu _enuru{+e2-nu-ru}_ ki-in-ip ki-ni-ip ki-ni-ip szu-uh ki-ni-ip szi#-[ha-ma ...] | ... a šidnu of the city Enuru. |
| 8' | [... a-szu]-u2# _ri-ri dab_-it _{szim#}gur2-gur2 gazi{sar}_ u _mun disz_-nisz _sud2_ ina _a sag-du_-su# [...] | ... ašû-plant, sulphur, mustard, gazelle, and salt: you boil down ... in the water of his head ... |
| 9' | [...] x _dab_-it! _suhusz#_ {gisz#}szu#-szi# su#? un#? ina _kasz-sag_ tara-muk ina _ul_ tusz-bat ina sze-rim# [...] | ... he seized ... the base of a šuši tree in prime-quality beer, he did not sit in it, in the morning ... |
| 10' | [...] _gu7_-ma _ti {gi#}sza3#-gi_ tur-ar2 _sud2_ ina _i3_ u _kasz szesz2_ sza-pil-ti _{gisz}kiszi16#?_ [...] | ... he eats and the reed bundle is split open, he drinks it in oil and beer, the lower brother's beer ... |
| 11' | [... a-szu]-u2# a#-hi#-iz e-risz-ti _gazi{sar} lal2 numun {u2}ku6_ ina _i3 sud2 sag-du_-su x [...] | ... ašû-disease, aḫīz-ērišitu-plant, sagapenum, honey, seed of a fish in oil, his head ... |
| 12' | [...] _sag#-du#_-su# _lal_ sah-le2-e ina _kasz nag illu {szim}buluh_ ana _ka_-szu2 _gar_-an _a zu2-lum-[ma_ ...] | ... his head, you knead honey (and) cress in beer, you put a libation of baluḫh&bu-aromatic into his mouth, water of dates ... |
| 13' | [...] pa-tan _nag i3_ u _kasz nag-nag_-ma _buru8 1/2(disz) sila3_ szur-szum-me _kasz 1/2(disz) sila3_ x [...] | ... you boil on an empty stomach, you boil oil and beer, and then the harvest is half a sila3 of šur-shumme-plant, beer 1/2 sila3. ... |
| 14' | [...] _an#-ta_ ana _ki-ta_ tu-masz-szad _u4 1(u)-kam2 lal2 suhusz_ {gisz}szu-[szi ...] | ... you raise up from the upper to the lower side. On the 10th day honey, base of juniper ... |
| 15' | [...] _{u2#}ku6_ ina _ i3 sud2 sag-du_-su u ka-la _uzu#-[mesz_-szu2 ...] | ... a fish in oil, his head and all of his flesh ... |
| 16' | [...] _nundun#-mesz_-szu2 _mu2-mesz sag-du_-su ana# _igi_-szu2 _gid2#-da#_-su x x [...] | ... his eyebrows, his head to his face, his tail ... ... |
| 17' | [...] 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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