Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues by Ulrike Steinert

Author:Ulrike Steinert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2018-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

For treatments of the feet, note in addition the fragments AMT 69/2 (concerning sick feet); AMT 69/7 (mentioning feet that feel hot); AMT 70/3 (prescriptions for the sole of the feet), BAM 121 (concerned with sick feet; excerpt of Kiṣir-Aššur), some of which could belong to the context of HAMSTRING 4. Some of the texts related to HAMSTRING and concerned with illnesses of the lower extremities, muscles and joints are translated in Böck 2010b: 99-106. It is further worth noting that conditions of the lower extremities, muscles and joints are likewise listed as a cluster in the second part of the Exorcist’s Manual (KAR 44 rev. 2 //), in a section enumerating collections of remedies for various conditions (see Geller infra, p. 309 line 32 and Steinert infra, pp. 185-187 for discussion).

55) It is probable that the phrase ša MURUB₄ in AMC line 55 already belongs to the adi-section, and refers to a topic dealt with in HAMSTRING Tablet 1. For comparable entries from therapeutic texts concerned with the hips see e.g. the Assur fragment BAM 56 obv. 1’ (stiff hips), 5’ (painful hips) and 8’ (sore and swollen hips). Note also the Nineveh fragment AMT 69/8, which on its reverse(!) contains entries dealing with the hips, see AMT 69/8 rev. 11’ // AMT 56/1 rev. 5’: DIŠ a-na MURUB₄ áš-ṭa-a-ti l[u-ub-bu-ki] (var. -ka) “If (you want) to [soften] stiff hips” (Scurlock and Andersen 2005: 11.3; CDLI P 396339); cf. AMT 69/8 rev. 15 // AMT 56/1 rev. 10’: ana SA MURUB₄ lu-ub-bu-ki ... “in order to soften the muscle(s) of the hip(s)”. Note that AMT 69/8 starts with the incipit DIŠ NA GÌRIII-šú šá-[áš-šá-ṭa GIG? ...], a topic also mentioned among the keywords in AMC l. 55, see below. For AMT 56/1, a Neo-Babylonian single column tablet with treatments for rectal illness on the obverse and remedies for the hips on the reverse (Geller 2005a: No. 32 ms. ff, with duplicating lines from AMT 69/8 included as ms. TT). AMT 56/1 may thus combine material from the sections ANUS and HAMSTRING.

Note further BAM 559+AMT 69/3+AMT 26/5: 14’ and AMT 61/2 ii 2’ cited above in the commentary to AMC l. 53, and AMT 52/6+K.13425: 6’ and 11’ (CDLI P397929), prescribing amulet stones for the hips and remedies for paralysis of the hips (šimmat MURUB₄).

The illness maškadu(SA.GIG), which is mentioned as the next keyword in AMC line 55, is a condition befalling domestic animals and humans and identified by Wasserman (2012) with brucellosis, a zoonotic, contagious disease caused by bacteria and responsible e.g. for pain in the joints and muscles. It is treated e.g. in AMT 69/9: 2’-3’ (restored from Sakikkû 33: 99, see Heeßel 2000: 357; Scurlock 2014a: 234): [DIŠ uzu]ÚR-šú TA giš-ši-šú EN ki-ṣal-li-šú GU₇-šú ZI-bi u DU-ak maš-ka-d[ù MU.NI] “[If] his thigh hurts him from his hip socket to his ankles, but he can get up and walk, it [is called] maškadu-(disease).” See also the variant Sakikkû 33: 100 (see further Heeßel 2000: 373): [DIŠ TA] uzuKUN-šú EN ŠU.

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