Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1800 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome L0000803

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial
Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome L0000803.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_medical_clay_tablet._Wellcome_L0000803.jpg. Description: Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome Images Keywords: Materia Medica

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome Images Keywords: Materia Medica

Attribution

Image: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/b0/95/c08424b95c8240c9b282e3664a2c.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0000803.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-28): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/g5amdhuc CC-BY-4.0 — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome L0000803.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_medical_clay_tablet._Wellcome_L0000803.jpg. Description: Cuneiform medical clay tablet. Wellcome Images Keywords: Materia Medica.

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