A New Late Babylonian Manuscript of the Medical-magical Series ‘Fumigation’ (<b> <i>qutāru</i> </b>)

Abstract Fumigation as a healing procedure was a widely used technique in Mesopotamian medicine with textual references to the existence of the medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’ known from the Late Babylonian period. BM 38438 represents a new manuscript of this text. In the first part of this paper, I provide a summary of all manuscripts of this medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’, while in the second part an edition of the new fragment will be presented. I would like to thank the trustees of the British Museum, for permission to publish the tablet. I am very much indebted to M. J. Geller (University College London), J. Fincke (Leiden University) and the participants of an online reading group for cuneiform medicine (NinMed) organized by M. J. Geller for their suggestions and corrections. Needless to say I bear responsibility for any remaining errors. The abbreviations follow the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, with the following addition: CCP = Cuneiform commentaries project (https://ccp.yale.edu/). The present paper was developed within the framework of the MTA–ELTE Momentum Assyrian and Babylonian Divine World Research Group.