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This tablet contains medical prescriptions of medicine and incantation against poisoning. The obverse gives 8 different prescriptions while the reverse recalls the cure made by the incantation. Terracotta tablet, from Nippur, Iraq, 18th century BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul. From Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70044682

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current03:15, 11 December 2020Thumbnail for version as of 03:15, 11 December 20201,024 × 1,514 (332 KB)Kevinhu (talk | contribs)This tablet contains medical prescriptions of medicine and incantation against poisoning. The obverse gives 8 different prescriptions while the reverse recalls the cure made by the incantation. Terracotta tablet, from Nippur, Iraq, 18th century BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul. From Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70044682
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3,379 × 4,999 (12.84 MB)Kevinhu (talk | contribs)This tablet contains medical prescriptions of medicine and incantation against poisoning. The obverse gives 8 different prescriptions while the reverse recalls the cure made by the incantation. Terracotta tablet, from Nippur, Iraq, 18th century BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul. From Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70044682

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