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BM 041044+ (P564848)
Medical, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 041044+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P564848 |
| Museum no. | BM 041044 + BM 041112 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 17 | Ditto; the heart of my (personal) god and my (personal) goddess is angry. |
| reverse 4' | ... his ears... his feet... |
| obverse 3 | He should not give his female slave to speak, or he will give. |
| reverse 11' | ... you place a censer of juniper in front of him. That woman... |
| obverse 11 | ... may they set him up... |
| obverse 13 | ... you put... upon him. |
| reverse 3' | ... not me of a thorny tree |
| obverse 6 | Incantation:... like a lion (and) a kiliya creature(?) whose tongue is like a snake. |
| obverse 14 | ... will enter into the presence of the prince. |
| obverse 1 | Incantation: '(If) his head...... |
| obverse 12 | Its ritual:.................. |
| reverse 12' | ... you recite this incantation 7 times over the head of the reed mat... |
| reverse 5' | May he speak the truth with the dog and the black-headed |
| obverse 10 | ... may he be seated on the ground, may he be seated before me. |
| reverse 2' | ... he poured water into the hand.... |
| reverse 8' | ... you libate... water. |
| obverse 7 | ...... stands: he will widen his understanding. |
| obverse 8 | ... may... Uttu, daughter of Anu, send. |
| reverse 10' | ... you put him on a bed on a bed. |
| obverse 5 | You recite 7 times, but the lord of the ritual cannot be changed. |
| obverse 16 | Ditto, the Tigris and Euphrates, ditto; the wide sea, ditto; the path of the daughter of the great gods, ditto; the path of the creation of life; |
| obverse 9 | ... may he see me and... my lord, my lord. |
| reverse 9' | ......, agate, (and) lapis lazuli, his head. |
| reverse 7' | (If) he......: he will recover. |
| reverse 6' | ... he put in order |
| obverse 2 | As soon as I have sat on him, his mouth is open to the mouth, his lips are open to the mouth. |
| obverse 4 | Its ritual:... the strong one, his god, and the incantation(?) of the brothers upon a ring. |
| obverse 15 | Incantation: O nuu of Gilgamesh, warrior, with you may the lands and rivers 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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