I HAVE AN STD, SEND HELP!!!A letter written from the Neo-Assyrian (circa  911-612 B.C.) priest

I HAVE AN STD, SEND HELP!!!

A letter written from the Neo-Assyrian (circa  911-612 B.C.) priest Nergal-šarrani to his king asking for medical aid for an STD he contracted by having lot’s of sex with women.  Original language is Akkadian.  From Nineveh in northern Iraq and now in the British Museum.  Archival view. 

What is interesting is the STD is being called “hand of Venus”, or in the original text “qatu Dilibat(ordil-bat).”  In Mesopotamian medical texts the hand could signify a disease label or the ultimate disease cause agent.  Transliterated cuneiform and translation of text (link).  

Nonetheless, an odd thing to write to your king.

~Hasmonean