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BAM 5, 492 (P400334)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 492 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400334 |
| 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 | ||
| 1' | [x x]-nam# ana#?-ku#? x [...] | ... I |
| 2' | _en lal2_-ta _en2_ ki-a-am# [...] | From the lord of honey you recite the incantation thus .... |
| 3' | _DISZ na sag-du_-su bar# [...] | If a man's head ... |
| 4' | _DISZ na sag-du_-su bar-[x ...] | If a man's head ... |
| 5' | _suhusz_ {gesz}szu-szi _sud2_ ina _lal3_ x [...] | the base of a cypress, you pound it in honey ... |
| 6' | _DISZ na sag-du_-su bar-[x ...] | If a man's head ... |
| 7' | sah-le2-e _dida_ x [...] | cress, ... ... |
| 8' | ina _mul4_ tusz-bat# ina# sze#-ri3# [...] | ... sits in the star; in the morning ... |
| 9' | _i3-gesz_ ana _ugu_ [...] | You pour oil over .... |
| 10' | x x x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | _en2_ [...] | Incantation: ... |
| 2' | _du3-du3-[bi_ ...] | Its ritual: ... |
| 3' | i# 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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