CCP 4.2.M.c - Therapeutic (Qutāru) M

Catalogue information
British Museum
BM 44243
81-7-1,2004
Babylon(Babylon)
CDLI: 
P461217
Publication
Copy: 
Geller unpub. copy
Commentary
MedicalTherapeutic texts

Broken

Base text: 
Therapeutic (Qutāru)
Commentary no: 
M
Duplicates
Tablet information
Babylonian
Fragment
Columns: 
1
Lines: 
8
Neo/Late Babylonian, specifics unknown
Bibliography

Frahm, 2011E. Frahm, Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries. Origins of Interpretation. Ugarit-Verlag, 2011.: 236, 240

Geller, 2010bM. J. Geller, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
[Partial duplicate of BRM 4 32]
: 176

Record
Geller, 12/2010 (Identification)
Geller, 12/2010 (Copy)
Jiménez, 12/2017 (Introduction)
By Mary Frazer | Make a correction or suggestion
How to cite
Frazer, M., 2017, “Commentary on Therapeutic (Qutāru) (CCP 4.2.M.c),” Cuneiform Commentaries Project (E. Frahm, E. Jiménez, M. Frazer, and K. Wagensonner), 2013–2024; accessed April 19, 2024, at https://ccp.yale.edu/P461217. DOI: 10079/kprr59d
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Introduction

This tablet is known to us through the generosity of Mark Geller, who identified it in the British Museum and shared with us his unpublished copy. The edition below is greatly indebted to it.

The tablet contains remains of a commentary that runs paralleled to the long Qutāru commentary MLC 1863 (CCP 4.2.M.a). The present manuscript, however, seems to be even more verbose than MLC 1863: thus, an explanation that occupies only one line in MLC 1863 (l. 2) takes up lines in this version (ll. 2–5).

The edition below is a composite edition of all three known manuscripts. To see an edition of this fragment alone, click on “Manuscript” view below.

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BM 044243 (unpublished unassigned ?) [commentaries]

Obverse
11

[... mar]-ṣu iḫ-ta-an-naq? x x x [...]

[ “with respect to the s]ick man, he suffocates []

22

[...] IGI-MIN 15!-šú u 150-šú i-kap-pi-iṣ [...]

[] “the right and his left eye roll up. []

33

[...] i-ka-ri ù i-na-al* [...]

[] he rubs [] and lies down []

44

[...] i-na-nu-su-ú DUG₄.DUG₄ ár-ki-šú? x [...]

[] his back []

55

[...] DINGIR i-nam!-za-ár šil-lat! i-qab-bi šá im-[mar ...]

[] “he (i.e., the sick man) curses the gods, speaks blasphemy, (and) hits whatever he s[ees.” ]

66

[...] ḫu-uṣ-ṣa GAZ lìb-bi TUK.TUKši INIM?-[MEŠ-šú ...]

[] “he (i.e., the sick man) will repeatedly contract abdominal pain, [keeps forgetting his] w[ords ]

77

[...] x x ù GABA-šú TAG-su [...]

[] and (in) his chest, you touch him []

88

[...] x x [...]

[] []

Photos by Enrique Jiménez

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