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K 12981 (P400151)
CANONICAL > Technical > Medicine > Therapeutic, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12981 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400151 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Technical > Medicine > Therapeutic |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse? 1 | If....... |
| obverse? 11 | You strew... in a censer of juniper. |
| obverse? 7 | ...... it was small. |
| obverse? 10 | he will kill a dead man; he will smite your head. In the wall |
| reverse? 7 | a thorny plant, a medicinal plant, (as well as) a bird's saliva, |
| reverse? 6 | seed, kamkada-plant, NIG field |
| obverse? 3 | ...... |
| obverse? 4 | You wipe clean his head and the 'third day' is not completed. |
| reverse? 8 | (If) he is seized by oil: his head will be seized. |
| obverse? 2 | ..., she will acquire... on her forehead. |
| reverse? 3 | aktam-plant, imaha-plant, white-green...-plant |
| obverse? 5 | If ditto... 10 shekels of flour, 10 shekels of flour, |
| obverse? 9 | ... one... with beer, you libate... |
| obverse? 8 | ... 10 shekels of small beer, |
| reverse? 2 | ... you set up for... and wool. |
| obverse? 6 | 10 shekels of...-plant, 10 shekels of...-plant |
| reverse? 4 | You sweep his head from the water. |
| reverse? 5 | ... his head is swollen. |
| reverse? 1 | You wipe clean his head and the KAM-plant will not be removed. |
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
- 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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