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BAM 6, 518 (P422325)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 6, 518 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422325 |
| Museum no. | BM 121042 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Medical |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 | |
| 2' | [...] _{u2#}gamun naga si_ | ... cumin, horned alkali |
| 3' | [...] _{u2}kur-ra za3-hi-li giri3-pad-ra2 nam-lu2-ulu3{lu}_ | ... mountain plant, zaḫilu-plant, the footstool of humanity |
| 4' | [...] _i3-udu ellag2 gu4_ kal-li gul-gul _lu2-ulu3{lu}_ | ... fat of a fattened ox, destroyer of the humankind |
| 5' | [...] tu-qat-tar-szu | ... you will present to him |
| 6' | [...] _gu7#-mesz_-ma _im ti-mesz zi3 {szim}gur2-gur2_ | ... he eats and he drinks water, flour and mint. |
| 7' | [...] NE# lu _zi3 sze-sa-a_ ina _kasz_ tara-bak _igi-min_-szu2 _la2_ | ... ... or sesame flour you stir into beer; his eyes will be affected. |
| 8' | [... _na4]_ ga#-bi-i _mun_ eme-sal-lim t,e3-pu sza2 _igi-min-mesz_ | ... alum, salt, emesallu-salt solution for the eyes. |
| 9' | [...] ud-du-pa-a-ma a-sza2-a a-pa-a | (Sum) ... I am constantly frightened(?) and I am afraid (Akk) .... I am continually terrified, I am terrified |
| 10' | [...] a _zi3 gu2-gal zi3 gu2-tur_ | ... water, gugal-flour, ‘small’ flour |
| 11' | [...] a _zi3 {szim}gur2-gur2 zi3 {szim}li_ | ... water, gurgur-flour, lard, |
| 12' | [...] x _hi-hi_ ina _a gazi{sar} la2_ | ... ... in juice from gazelle fronds |
| 13' | [...] 4(disz)# _gin2 zi3 gu2-gal 4(disz) gin2 zi3 gu2-tur_ | ... 4 shekels of gugal-flour, 4 shek[els of small-grain flour] |
| 14' | [...] _gin2_ sah-le2-e szum4-ma _en-te-na_ | ... shekels of sahlû-frit. |
| 15' | [...] x x _min_-szu2 u _igi-min_-szu2 _la2_ | ... ... his ditto and his eyes are reduced. |
| 16' | [...] x _{szim}gur2-gur2 gazi{sar}_ | ... mint, mustard, |
| 17' | [...] 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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