CCP 7.2.u57 - Medical recipe

Catalogue information
British Museum
BM 47802
81-11-3,509
Babylon(Babylon)
CDLI: 
P461237
Commentary
MiscellaneaUnknown

Broken

Base text: 
Medical recipe
Tablet information
Babylonian
Fragment
Lines: 
15
Size: 
6,7 × 4,1 × 2,3 cm
Neo/Late Babylonian, specifics unknown
Record
Jiménez, 06/2016 (Transliteration)
Jiménez, 06/2016 (Translation)
Jiménez, 06/2016 (Introduction)
Stadhouders, 07/2016 (Revision)
Jiménez, 05/2017 (Commentary markup)
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How to cite
Jiménez, E., 2016, “Commentary on Medical recipe (CCP 7.2.u57),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 26, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P461237. DOI: 10079/6t1g1xv
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Introduction

This tablet, classified as a “commentary” in the catalogue of the British Museum’s “Babylon Collection,” is not an actual commentary, but rather a medical recipe with occasional glosses. The recipe lists a series of branches of different trees and various drugs, and urges the practitioner to cut them into pieces together. The glosses, written in smaller script in lines 2′-4′ and separated by cola, seem to refer also to branches.

The edition below has greatly benefited form H. Stadhouders’s careful revision, who established the correct reading of the first line.

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&P461237 = CCP 7.2.u57 (http://ccp.yale.edu/P461237) = BM 47802
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1'. !bs [*] NA# GIR₃#-MIN-šu₂ x [...]
#lem: amēla[man]N; šēpāšu[foot]N; u; u


#note: Reading courtesy of Henry Stadhouders. He adds: “Too many possibilities to reconstruct the symptom description with any certainty; @i{i}[@i{t-ta-nak-na-na-šú} …], @i{i}[@i{t-te-nen-si-la} …], @i{i}[@i{t-ta-na-an-pa-ḫa} …], @i{i}[@i{t-ta-na-áš-ga-ga} …], @i{š}[@i{a-ag-ga} …], M[Ú.MÚ-@i{ḫa} …], @i{i}-[…]

2'. !bs GI# !cm : GI.ŠUL.HI# [# !bs ...]
#lem: qanê[reed]N; +qan-šalālu[(a type of reed)]N$; u

3'. !bs PA GIŠ !cm : {(PA {giš}ŠENNUR)} : !bs x# [...]
#lem: artu[branches]N; iṣ[tree]N; artu[branches]N; šallūri[plum]N; u; u

#note: @akk{PA} “foliage”; a quite similar list (@i{BAM} 571, iii, 4’-9’) enumerates the drugs as @i{ḫas-ḫal-lat} @akk{GIŠ}.xyz, which might point to a reading @i{ḫasḫallatu} for the logogram PA in a case like this, if it is not @i{aru}.

4'. !bs {(x x)} x# PA# {giš}ILDAG₂ PA# [...]
#lem: u; u; u; artu[branches]N; adāra[(a tree)]N; artu[branches]N; u

5'. !bs PA {giš}se-er-di !cm : {(PA {giš}ŠINIG#)} !bs [...]
#lem: artu[branches]N; serdi[olive]N; artu[branches]N; u; u

6'. !bs PA {giš}NU.UR₂.MA PA {giš}HAŠHUR PA# [...]
#lem: artu[branches]N; nurmî[pomegranate]N; artu[branches]N; hašhūra[(a fruit)]N; artu[branches]N; u

7'. !bs PA {giš}ŠUR.MIN₃ PA {giš}ŠE.NA₂.A# [...]
#lem: artu[branches]N; šurmēni[cypress]N; artu[branches]N; šunê[chaste tree]N; u

8'. !bs HUL₂.TI.GI.IL.LA [... U₂-MEŠ]
#lem: +tigillû[colocynth]N$; u; šammī[plant(s)]N

9'. !bs an-nu-ti 1{+niš} ta-har-ra?#-[aṣ ...]
#lem: annûti[these]DP; iltēniš[together]AV; +harāṣu[break off]V$taharraṣ; u

#note: [… @akk{Ú-HI.A}] @akk{an-nu-ti 1{+niš} ta-har-ra#}-[@i{ina šikar sābî mê urul bāqili}] / @akk{u A TÚL šá {d}UTU NU IGI# PA-MEŠ DÙ.A.BI ana ŠÀ} …; see Rm 2, 147, rev. 1-3. [Henry Stadhouders]

10'. !bs u A PU₂ ša₂ {d}UTU NU IGI# [...]
#lem: u[and]CNJ; mê[water]N; būri[well]N; ša[of]DET; Šamaš[1]DN; lā[not]MOD; innamir[appear]V; u

11'. !bs ina lu-ba-re-e ta-x# [...]
#lem: ina[in]PRP; +lubāru[garment]N$lubārê; u; u

#note: @i{ta-š}[@i{a-ḫal} …], @i{ta-r}[@i{ak-kás} …]?; cf. Rm 2, 147, obv. 9’: @akk{GAZI#{sar} ina TÚG.HI.A KÉŠ?#}. [Henry Stadhouders]
12'. !bs te-ṭe#-[...]
#lem: u

#note: [… @i{ina maški}/@i{šubāti}] / @akk{te-ṭe#-[ri ...]} = @i{teṭerri}; less likely to be restored as [… @i{kīma ṭīpi}] / @akk{te-ṭe#-[pi ...]} = @i{teṭeppi}. [Henry Stadhouders]
$ single ruling
13'. !bs MIN {giš}x# [...]
#lem: šanîš[alternatively]AV; u; u

14'. !bs GI# [...]
#lem: qanê[reed]N; u

15'. !bs x# [...]
#lem: u; u

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1'. [If] a man, his feet … […]
2'. Reed (gloss: a @i{qān-šalāli}-reed) […]
3'. Branch of a tree (gloss: branch of a plum tree) … […]
4'. … branch of a poplar tree, branch of … […]
5'. Branch of olive tree, (gloss: branch of a tamar[isk) …]
6'. Branch of pomegranate, branch of apple tree … […]
7'. Branch of cypress, branch of chaste tree […]
8'. Colocynth […]
9'. These drugs you cut (into pieces) together […]
10'. And water from the well of Šamaš … […]
11'. On your clothing you … […],
12'. You … […]
13'. Two … […]
14'. @i{Reed} […]
15'. …
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