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BAM 5, 486 (P425685)
Medical, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BAM 5, 486 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425685 |
| 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 3 | ||
| 1' | _en2 sag-ki#-[ni_ ...] | Incantation: “Your forehead . . |
| 2' | mu-ru-ub-bi-ni# [...] | Who ... his scepter |
| 3' | _du3-du3-bi_ {u2}asz-lam _nita2#_ [...] | Its ritual: Ašlam-plant, a man |
| 4' | e-ma _ka-keszda en2 szid_-nu# [...] | Wherever you tie a knot, recite the incantation .... |
| 5' | _ki ka-keszda_ ina _{sig2}he2-me-da nigin#_ [...] | You wrap ... with kakešda-flour in red wool |
| 6' | _en2# id2-da-ta tir gal-gal-la#-[ta_ ...] | Incantation: From the Tigris to the Great Mountain Range ... |
| 7' | _ul#-ul {gesz}gesztin gir2 mu-un-kar#-[re_ ...] | He smashed the grapes with a knife |
| 8' | _[szu] mu2#-mu2#-e#-de3# mul#-mul#_ [...] | If he touches the hand, the Stars .... |
| obverse col 4 | ||
| 1' | [... _{iti}]kin_ | ... Ululu |
| 2' | [... _szeg6]_-szal# _gu7_ | ... will eat black corn. |
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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