This tablet contains treatments, mostly in the form of ointments to soothe distressed and fractious babies. It also includes instructions for making miniature inscribed clay cylinder-amulets. From the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 650 BCE. (The British Museum, London)
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