A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
Dental incantations: the worm, and Ibila-Emaḫ — a dental-therapy tablet held for two named doors: Collins (1999), p. 279, eyeballed, and the NinMed edition of BAM 542.
Held, with its checks still open. The reading stands built and is held; its text is not printed on this page. No claim beyond the entry’s own stated posture is made here. The checks that would settle it are named below and are still open; the wording on this page claims nothing they have not settled.
A dental-therapy tablet whose units carry two small stories: something has invaded the head, and the speaker asks “Whom shall I send to the son of the mountain?” so that Marduk may touch the worm and the worm come out; and the god Ibila-Emaḫ, “great heir of Enlil,” invoked against the speaker’s own tooth. This tablet does not carry the famous “Legend of the Worm” historiola — that text stands on CT 17, 50 (Collins (1999), pp. 262–265; Foster (2005), p. 995) and is no part of this piece’s posture. The record itself carries no EDITION and no TRANSLATION reference, but two doors stand open.
The reading stands built: 20 line positions — 0 whole, 18 part, 2 fragments, 0 invented.
Collins, Natural Illness in Babylonian Medical Incantations (doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, 1999), p. 279 — cited on this tablet’s own record at exactly that page, inside the dissertation that edits and translates these incantations in English; and the NinMed edition of BAM 542 named in the record’s publication field, which could not be located in any open source.
What would unlock it: both, eyeballed. Until they are, the reading stays held and unprinted.
Held reading, K.2450. Its text is not printed here; the named checks above stand open. Published as a held entry 2026-10-23. A Vigslist translation.
Built 2026-10-23 from the Second Collection of the Vigslist translations program (October 23, 2026).
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