Translation and analysis of a cuneiform text forming part of a Babylonian treatise on epilepsy

Abstract

by British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the Turkish Department of Antiquities. It is written in the Neo-Assyrian script, and formed part of a collection of literary tablets whose colophons bear dates ranging from 718 to 612 BC. The second tablet, BM 47753, belongs to The British Museum's "Babylonian Collection". It does not originate from a controlled excavation, but there is nevertheless every likelihood that its provenance is Babylon. Beautifully written in the Neo-Babylonian script, it may be dated approximately