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BAM 5, 495 (P401238)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 495 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401238 |
| 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 1 | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...] x | |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| obverse col 2 | ||
| 1' | _en2#_ [...] | Incantation: ... |
| 2' | _edin ki#_ [...] | the steppe ... |
| 3' | u2 su nu x [...] | ... grass not ... |
| 4' | _ka-inim-ma_ [...] | Incantation formula: ... |
| 5' | _du3-du3-bi {u2}ab2-duh_ ta#-[pa-as, ...] | Its ritual: you crush šuduḫ-plant |
| 6' | _en2#_ 7(disz)-szu2 ana _ugu szid_ [...] | You recite the incantation seven times over a shadû-vessel .... |
| 7' | _[DISZ] na#_ a-szu-u2 _dab_-su {szim}hab illu#_ [...] | If a man is seized by ašû-disease: habānu-aromatic, flood ... |
| 8' | _ka#_-szu2 u3 na-hi-ri-szu2 tu-qat-tar# | You raise his mouth and his nostrils. |
| 9' | _[egir]_-szu2 _i3-gesz_ hal-s,a ina _{gi#}[sag-kud_ ...] | After that, you mix filtered oil in a reed ... |
| 10' | [x x x] _{u2}kur-kur numun#_ [...] | ... kurkur-plant, seed |
| 11' | [x x x] x 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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