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BAM 6, 520 (P398154)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 520 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398154 |
| 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 col 1 | ||
| 1' | [...] ni#? ti | ... his/her own |
| 2' | [...] te-qi2 | ... you take. |
| 3' | [...] te-qi2 | ... you take. |
| 4' | [...] te gi | ... turning back |
| 5' | [...] x _i3 sud2 ki-min_ | ... ... oil, ditto. |
| 6' | [...] _ki-min_ | ... ditto. |
| 7' | [...] ana#? _igi-mesz_-szu2 _mar_ | ... you daub his eyes. |
| 8' | [...] x ku#? [...] x [x x x] x | ... ... |
| 9' | [...] x _ge6_ {na4}mu-s,a _{na4}zalag2 {na4}gug_ {na4#}[x x] | ... ... night, mūṣu-stone, lapis lazuli, carnelian, |
| 10' | [...] x na _{na4}musz-gir2 numun_ {gesz}bi-ni _numun {gesz}ma-nu_ | ... na mušgir-stone, seed from a date palm, seed of a tamarisk |
| 11' | [... _x]-mesz# szesz disz_-nisz _gaz_ ta-sza-pah ina _i3-udu ellag2 gu4 ge6_ | ... ... brother of Ishnish, you crush and sieve. You boil down in fat from a black ox. |
| 12' | [...] _x-mesz_-szu2 ka-a-a-man-na-ma _mar_-ma ina-esz | ... his ... constantly, and he will get better. |
| 13' | [...] za# PAD# 3(disz)-szu2 ki-a-am _tesz2-bi_ sza2 _{d}en-lil2_ u _{d}nin-lil2_ | ... ... three times. Thus (says) the prayer of Enlil and Ninlil |
| 14' | [...] ana-ku i-qab-bi-ma _ti_-ut, | ... I say: "I will live." |
| 15' | [...] x _gub_-zu _ti_-qe2 ina _izi_ tu-kab-ba-ab | ... ... you set up. You burn it with fire. |
| 16' | [...] _lal3 i3-nun sud2 igi-min_-szu2 te-eq-qi2-ma ina-esz | ... you wash his eyes with honey and butter, and then he will get better. |
| 17' | [...] x x x [...] | |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | x x [...] | |
| 2' | _DISZ na_ mu x [...] | If a man ... .... |
| 3' | lu _nita_ lu _munus_ x x [x] x x [...] | either a man or a woman ... ... |
| 4' | li-in-na-di ina _ge6 gin7 {d}utu_ e-[re-bi ...] | may he be able to roam around. When Šamaš enters, . |
| 5' | _igi_ ap-ti zi3-dub-dub-bu szub-szub#_ [...] | Before Apti, the scribal apprentice, fell ... |
| 6' | _nu_ i-pet-tu-szu [...] | ... did not approach him ... |
| 7' | u3 mu-szu sza-a-ti _{gesz}na2_ s,a-al-lu x [...] | and that night a ṣallu-bed |
| 8' | _DISZ na_ mu-kil _sag hul_-tim _dab_-su masz-qi2-ta nar-ma-ak x [...] | If a man is seized by a mukultu-disease: mashqītu, narmak-sorcery ... .... |
| 9' | _DISZ ki-min kum2_ ina _su_-szu2 la-zi-iz-ma u ma-gal i-le-hi-ib x [...] | If ditto: kumû-plant stands in his body, and he will recover greatly ... .... |
| 10' | u _ir tuku_ a-szar _munu6_ u _kasz3_ a-me-lu-ti _{gesz}erin_ {szim}x [...] | and he who has a desire, where beer and beer are plentiful, cedar, ... juniper |
| 11' | ina _nindu usz2_-er ir-ta-na-has,-ma _i3-gesz {gesz}kiszi16_ x x [...] | (If) he is stricken by a nindanu-straw: he will become ill and ... juniper oil .... |
| 12' | _en2 ur-sag {d}asal-lu2-hi igi-bi he2-pad3#_ [...] | Incantation: O hero Asalluhi, look upon them with favor |
| 13' | _ur-sag {d}sza3-zu igi-bi he2#-pad3#_ [...] | May the hero Šazu look upon it |
| 14' | _ur-sag {d}en-ki igi-bi# [he2-pad3_ ...] | May the hero Enki look upon it |
| 15' | _ur-sag {d}nin-urta igi#-[bi he2-pad3_ ...] | May the hero Ninurta look upon it |
| 16' | _ad-da-gu10 dumu sag dingir#?_ [...] | My father, the first-born son of the god(?) |
| 17' | _dumu-gu10 nam-tar_ [...] | My son Namtar ... |
| 18' | ra# x x di x [...] | ... ... |
Sources & licences
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- 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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