Divine Origin Of Craft Of Herbal by Budge

Divine Origin Of Craft Of Herbal by Budge

Author:Budge [Budge]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780710307309
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005-07-01T00:00:00+00:00


SECTION OF THE ASSYRIAN HERBAL FROM THE LIBRARY OF ASHUR-BANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA, AT NINEVEH.

(From the reverse of Brit. Mus. Tablet No. 4345, published by Dr. Thompson in Cuneiform Texts, Part XIV, Plate 28, and in his Assyrian Herbal, p. 21.)

Here may be given an extract from the great Assyrian Herbal from a tablet (K 4345) in the British Museum; in Thompson’s reconstruction the lines are numbered 445–462. It will be noticed that nearly all the lines in both columns begin with the sign “u,” which is read “sham,” and indicates that what follows it is the name of a plant or of something made from a plant. The left-hand column of such lists often contains both the Sumerian ideographs for the plants, and Semitic names and synonyms and the right Semitic names. A transliteration of the first five lines of the extract will make this clear.



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