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BM 040552 (P564829)
Medical, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 040552 |
|---|---|
| ID | P564829 |
| Museum no. | BM 040552 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Medical |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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' | ... dates |
| obverse 10' | flour, sikkatu-flour |
| obverse 4' | ... you let him live and... |
| obverse 13' | ... he will attack...... |
| reverse 7' | ......, kurkurru-plant, kak cheese |
| obverse 8' | If ditto a ibirtu-plant, a... plant(?) |
| obverse 5' | If ditto... wine: in beer. |
| reverse 3' | umuttu-plant,... plant |
| obverse 3' | ...... 1 times in first-class beer, mustard, in beer... |
| obverse 6' | If ditto, you pour a libation of wine (and) a yellow-green flint into a taalû-vessel. |
| obverse 9' | If ditto... flour, emmer flour, idannu-flour flour, ibirtu-flour |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 11' | You put 17? kupatinnu-vessels on him and their...... |
| obverse 7' | You pour (them) into it. You bind (them) in a cloth. |
| obverse 12' | If a man is... and he is ill(?)... their |
| reverse 5' | You sit in a...... |
| reverse 2' | ...... fell... |
| reverse 10' | (If) he sees a man and he sees a man |
| obverse 2' | ... milk |
| reverse 6' | ... a plant,... |
| reverse 9' | In Du'uzu, the foundation of the 'finger' was 4 shekels... |
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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