Neo-Babylonian incantation of a sick mouth

A copy of a Neo-Babylonian incantation against the cause of a gum and toothache (a worm) with a recipe and a medical procedure. The original clay tablet (which is also a copy of an older tablet) dates back to the middle of the 1st millenium BC and is deposited in the British Museum. The incantation is hand-written in Neo-Babylonian and Sumerian, in a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform script. In a colophon at the end of the text, there is an information written in Sumerian, that it is a copy written by me (i. e. the scribe's name), as was the custom in Mesopotamia and as is written on the original tablet. Fired in a kiln with wood.

Size: 7 cm x 10 cm x 3,5 cm (width x height x thickness)

I will enclose a paper with transliteration, transcription, translation to English and with some basic information about the text, the language, the script etc.

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