CRANIUM 1: First steps

We start with the first chapter or tablet of the first treatise in the Assur Medical Catalogue. We will try to assemble some key materials for CRANIUM 1, leading up to October 1st. Thanks to the efforts of a number of different scholars over the years, but most recently the BabMed team, in particular Ulrike Steinert, we now have a comprehensive edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue (AMC) here:

https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/477148

On p. 209, in the second line, is the first incipit, which corresponds to the first tablet/chapter of CRANIUM. It is entirely reconstructed in AMC, but reads as follows: [DIŠ NA UGU-šu2 KUM2 u2-kal]. The rest of the line, which is only partially reconstructed, corresponds to the second tablet.

On p. 286, we have the table of sources, which for Nineveh, lists the following: BAM 480BAM 4, BAM 481 and AMT 5/3. But no transliteration of BAM 480 on the BabMed website as yet. The most recent edition of CRANIUM 1 is found in Martin Worthington’s contribution in JMC 5.