CCP 7.2.u57 - Medical recipe

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

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 24, 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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BM 047802 (unpublished unassigned ?) [commentaries]

Obverse
o 1'o 1'

[*] ⸢NA GÌR⸣-MIN-šú x [...]1

[If] a man, his feet … […]

o 2'2'

⸢GI⸣ : GI.ŠUL.⸢ḪI⸣ [: ...]

Reed (gloss: a qān-šalāli-reed) […]

o 3'3'

PA GIŠ : PA gišŠENNUR: ⸢x⸣ [...]2

Branch of a tree (gloss: branch of a plum tree) … […]

o 4'4'

x x⸢x PA⸣ gišÍLDAG ⸢PA⸣ [...]

… branch of a poplar tree, branch of … […]

o 5'5'

PA gišse-er-di : PA giš⸢ŠINIG⸣ [...]

Branch of olive tree, (gloss: branch of a tamar[isk) …]

o 6'6'

PA gišNU.ÚR.MA PA gišḪAŠḪUR ⸢PA⸣ [...]

Branch of pomegranate, branch of apple tree … […]

o 7'7'

PA gišŠUR.MÌN PA gišŠE.NÁ.⸢A⸣ [...]

Branch of cypress, branch of chaste tree […]

o 8'8'

ḪÚL.TI.GI.IL.LA [... Ú-MEŠ]

Colocynth […]

o 9'9'

an-nu-ti 1niš ta-ḫar-⸢ra?⸣-[aṣ ...]3

These drugs you cut (into pieces) together […]

o 10'10'

u A PÚ šá dUTU NU ⸢IGI⸣ [...]

And water from the well of Šamaš … […]

o 11'11'

ina lu-ba-re-e ta-⸢x⸣ [...]4

On your clothing you … […],

o 12'12'

te-⸢ṭe⸣-[...]5

You … […]

o 13'13'

MIN giš⸢x⸣ [...]

Two … […]

o 14'14'

⸢GI⸣ [...]

Reed […]

o 15'15'

⸢x⸣ [...]

…

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1Reading courtesy of Henry Stadhouders. He adds: “Too many possibilities to reconstruct the symptom description with any certainty; i[t-ta-nak-na-na-šú …], i[t-te-nen-si-la …], i[t-ta-na-an-pa-ḫa …], i[t-ta-na-áš-ga-ga …], š[a-ag-ga …], M[Ú.MÚ-ḫa …], i-[…]

2PA “foliage”; a quite similar list (BAM 571, iii, 4’-9’) enumerates the drugs as ḫas-ḫal-latGIŠ.xyz, which might point to a reading ḫasḫallatu for the logogram PA in a case like this, if it is not aru.

3[… Ú-ḪI.A] an-nu-ti 1niš ta-ḫar-⸢ra⸣-[ina šikar sābî mê urul bāqili] / u A TÚL šá dUTU NU ⸢IGI⸣ PA-MEŠ DÙ.A.BI ana ŠÀ …; see Rm 2, 147, rev. 1-3. [Henry Stadhouders]

4ta-š[a-ḫal …], ta-r[ak-kás …]?; cf. Rm 2, 147, obv. 9’: ⸢GAZI⸣sar ina TÚG.ḪI.A ⸢KÉŠ?⸣. [Henry Stadhouders]

5[… ina maški/šubāti] / te-⸢ṭe⸣-[ri ...] = teṭerri; less likely to be restored as [… kīma ṭīpi] / te-⸢ṭe⸣-[pi ...] = teṭeppi. [Henry Stadhouders]

Photos by Enrique Jiménez

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