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BM 038656 (P563935)
Medical, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 038656 |
|---|---|
| ID | P563935 |
| Museum no. | BM 038656 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Medical |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4' | ... you recite the incantation... the incantation... |
| reverse 10' | ... he has gone out, the curse has gone out, the exorcist |
| reverse 8' | ... [...] you recite [...] to you. |
| 9' | (If) he eats a vegetable, he strews it in a fire and he strews dates: he will fall from the fire. |
| 1' | ... release... |
| 18' | You recite the... of the flour... the gate, to the house. |
| reverse 5' | You crush... and. upon |
| reverse 6' | ... a sick man's hand on a basket |
| reverse 3' | ... the sick man his hands |
| 15' | You recite the incantation 'Nippur of Gilgamesh, warrior of the sick man'. |
| 14' | ................................... |
| 4' | ... fire will fall. After it |
| reverse 13' | ... a liar in the hands of a sick man |
| 16' | You made... speak...,..,..,..,..,..,..,..., |
| reverse 9' | You put a reed mat (on it) and... a namsû-vessel to the gate. |
| reverse 17' | ... will come out. |
| 19' | (If) he is stricken and he is stricken with water: he will die. |
| 8' | ... you recite... and return (it) to the hands of a healer. |
| 2' | ... the incantation... may the great gods be at peace. |
| 12' | You recite the incantation 'Seed-of-seeds', as many as there are, |
| reverse 15' | ... he smote and he set up his house. |
| 6' | ... garlic, dates, garlic, tamarisk, wool, good quality... |
| 5' | Incantation: O Anu and Antu, may they stand. |
| reverse 7' | ... you recite the incantation... a chariot. |
| reverse 11' | ... the incantation priest(?), and he inspected the emmer flour |
| 17' | Come out and accept the incantation. |
| reverse 12' | [...] you recite [...] the incantation on account of my guilt. You give the incantation priest and water to the chariot. |
| reverse 16' | ... he built a shrine for him. |
| 7' | ... you recite the incantation... |
| reverse 14' | ............................... |
| 3' | ... [...]... [...]... [...]... [...] |
| 13' | (If) a sick man screams and he screams, and he screams: |
| 10' | ...: he will become a..., he will become a frightened man, variant: he will become a frightened man. |
| 11' | (If) he sees a yellow-green pig and ditto: arable land, famine of a sick man in his body. |
| reverse 2' | ... ditto |
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
- 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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