1. The Assur Medical Catalogue (AMC)

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Ulrike Steinert

Published:

2018

8 This structural principle is explicitly stated in the summary rubric to AMC PART 1 (= line 58), in the form of a descriptive title for PART 1 (see below).This way of organisation is not unique to medical series in AMC PART 1, but can be found in other compendia dealing with the body and medical matters, e.g. in parts of the Diagnostic Handbook and the physiognomic omen series Alamdimmû, in lists of body parts (e.g.Ugumu), in incantations and amulet compendia (cf.Schuster-Brandis 2008).9 This descriptive title is encountered in AMC l. 58 and in the tablet colophons of the Nineveh Medical Compendium.See further the AMC commentary to ll. 1, 6, 58 as well as the contributions of Panayotov and Steinert in this volume.10 The fact that the compendium in AMC PART 2 is named after the first tablet of the first section (SKIN) can be regarded as an internal hint that AMC PART 1 may also have been designated in this way (i.e.šumma amēlu muhhašu umma ukâl).However, in the colophons of the Nineveh Medical Compendium this title is not applied to the whole series, but is only used as a name for the first section of the compendium.11 Cf. the copy of AMC (Pl. 1, 3-4) and the commentary for details.

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