The Provenance Standard
Every tablet in this archive is tied to an excavation context, a collection record, or a published edition. Provenance is the difference between evidence and rumor.
Nippur: Primary Anchor
The medical tablet P269190 (CBS 14221) is tied to Nippur collections and documented across CDLI and the Penn Museum object record. The Penn Museum Bulletins and the Assyriological Studies series frame the Nippur expeditions and publication pipeline.
Primary context sources:
- Penn Museum Bulletins on Nippur (1944, 1948)
- AS 17: Cuneiform Texts from Nippur, Eighth and Ninth Seasons
- Babylonian Expedition Series A volumes
Nineveh: Later Medical Corpus
Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia fragments are Neo‑Assyrian and used for comparison only. British Museum project records and object entries document the later corpus and its custody.
Babylon: Later Prescriptions
BM 47802 (P461237) preserves a later Babylonian medical recipe and is fully edited in CCP/ORACC. It is contextual rather than Sumerian‑era evidence.
Evidence Files (Local)
research/sources/1944-penn-museum-bulletin-nippur.pdfresearch/sources/1948-penn-museum-bulletin-nippur-fifty-years-ago.pdfresearch/sources/1969-as17-cuneiform-texts-from-nippur-eighth-and-ninth-seasons.pdfresearch/sources/1896-babylonian-expedition-series-a-cuneiform-texts.pdfresearch/sources/bm-k-61.htmlresearch/sources/bm-k-67.htmlresearch/sources/bm-k-191.htmlresearch/sources/bm-k-238.htmlresearch/sources/bm-k-249.htmlresearch/sources/bm-k-71b.htmlresearch/sources/ccp-p461237-medical-recipe.htmlresearch/sources/oracc-ccpo-p461237.html