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BAM 6, 572 (P398664)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 572 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398664 |
| 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)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
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 2 | ||
| 1' | [... ina _kusz]-edin# sur_-ri x x [x] | ... in a leather bag ... |
| 2' | [...] '# [x x x] _i3#_ hal-s,i u _kasz nag#_ [x] | ... ... you boil down filtered oil and beer ... |
| 3' | [...] _zi3 sze_ ina _sza3_-szu2 _dub#? [x] _i3#-gesz szesz2_-su-ma _ti#_ | ... flour of barley in his belly? ... oil, his brother will recover. |
| 4' | [... _x]-min_ [x] ina _gig_ | ... ditto ... in the illness. |
| 5' | [...] _zi3#-kum hi-hi_ ina _a gazi{sar} sila11#_ [ina] _kusz#-edin sur gaba_-su u _masz-sila3-min_-szu2 | ... kupsu-flour in juice from gazelle pomegranate, you wrap it in a leather bag on his chest and his legs. |
| 6' | [...] x-su _i3-gesz szesz2_-su#-ma _ti_ | ... his ... oil, his brother, and life |
| reverse col 1 | ||
| 1 | [... _{u2}]hur-sag {u2}har-har {u2}kur-kur_ | ... ḫursag-plant, harhar-plant (and) mountain plants |
| 2 | [...] _{szim#}a-zal-la-a _{u2}sumun-dar_ | ... azallû-aromatic, juniper |
| 3 | [...] 1(u) 6(disz) _u2-hi-a szesz disz_-nisz _sud2_ | ... 16 plants, brother of Niš, farmer |
| 4 | [...] x sza ma _ti_ | ... ... of ... |
| 5 | [...] ha-sza2-ni _numun_ {u2}at-kam | ... of the ḫašānu-plant, seed of a plant |
| 6 | [...] _du10-ga nu_ pa-tan _nag-mesz_-ma _ti_ | ... is good; he should not drink it on an empty stomach, and then he will recover. |
| 7 | [...] _masz#-sila3 la2_-ma ina-esz | ... there is a spindle, and then he will recover. |
| 8 | [...] x sik-ru-ti | ... scepter |
| 9 | [...] x-ma _ti_ | ... ... and life |
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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