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BAM 5, 437 (P424888)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 437 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424888 |
| 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)
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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' | [...] _ka# a#-ab#-ba#_ [...] | ... the mouth of the sea ... |
| 2' | [... {u2}]ur2-nu-u2 _{u2}kur#-[zi_ ...] | urnû-plant, kurzi-plant |
| 3' | [... _{u2}hur]-sag# {u2}kur-ra_ {u2}szu-[mut-tu2 ...] | ... ḫursag-plant, mountain plant, šumuttu-plant |
| 4' | [... _henbur2 {gesz}]kiszi16 henbur2 gi szul-hi#_ [...] | ... a reed stalk, a date palm stalk (and) šulḫi-wood ... |
| 5' | [... _{u2}]in#-nu-usz numun {u2}in#-[nu-usz_ ...] | ... innuš-plant, seed of innû-plant |
| 6' | [... _mun ku3]-pad# mun_ a-ma-[ni ...] | ... salt, gold, flour of his mother ... |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] _li-dur#_ x [...] | ... a reed bundle ... |
| 2' | [... ana bul]-lut, _lu2_ x [...] | ... for the life of a man ... ... |
| 3' | [...] x-ka [...] | ... your ... |
| 4' | [...] _usz11-zu_ [...] | ... witchcraft ... |
| 5' | [...] x tu2 ana bul-lut, _[lu2_ ...] | ... ... for the life of a man ... |
| 6' | [... _en2_ ul ia]-u2#-tu-un _en2_ {d}e2-a u [{d}asal-lu2-hi_ ...] | ... the incantation is not mine. Incantation: Ea and Asalluhi |
| 7' | [...] _lugal# en2 {d}sza3-zu_ {d}zar#-[pa-ni-tum] | ... king. Incantation: O Shamash, Zarpanitu |
| 8' | [... iq]-bu#-nim-ma a-na-ku# _[tu6-en2]_ | ... said to me, and I, incantation priest |
| 9' | [... {u2}]tar#-musz _{u2}igi_-[x ...] | ... tarmuš-plant, ...-plant |
| 10' | [... {u2}]el#-kul-la {gesz#}[x ...] | ... elkulla plant, ... wood |
| 11' | [... _{szim}]li#_ [...] | ... juniper ... |
| 12' | [... _{u2}]in#-[nu-usz_ ...] | ... innuš-plant |
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)
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