Medicine in Ancient Assur

Troels Pank Arbøll, Ph.D. (2017) in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at that university. He is currently engaged in research on Mesopotamian medicine, magic, and the transmission of knowledge in the ancient world.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviations and SymbolsSymbols and Further AbbreviationsIntroduction1.1 Colophons1.2 Mesopotamian Medicine1.3 Authorship1.4 Proof and Possibility1.5 Scope and StructureFramework and Background2.1 Microhistory2.2 Framework2.3 Background for Studying Kiṣir-Aššur2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kiṣir-Aššur’s TextsKiṣir-Aššur’s Magico-Medical Education as šamallû ṣeḫru3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kiṣir-Aššur’s šamallû ṣeḫru Texts3.2 Principles Understood Through Examples3.3 The Head: BAM 93.4 The “Strings” and “Inner” Body3.5 Snakes, Scorpions and Horses: A Discussion of RA 15 pl. 763.6 Gaining an Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology3.7 Preparation for Other Duties as šamallû ṣeḫru3.8 SummaryTraining in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû ṣeḫru4.1 The Role of Venom in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Anatomical Understanding4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Education4.3 Excursus: Animal Variants of Human Illnesses4.4 Animal and Human Physiology: The Reverse of RA 15 pl. 764.5 SummaryFurther Apprenticeship: šamallû to mašmaššu ṣeḫru5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase5.3 The mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase5.5 SummaryKiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaššu-phase6.1 Texts with Colophons Including the Title mašmaššu6.2 Making House Calls: Discussion of KAR 2306.3 Ritually Protecting the Houses of Clients: Discussion of KAR 2986.4 Namburbi-rituals and House Calls: KAL 4 no. 7 and LKA 1156.5 Other Technical Literature: CT 37 pl. 24f.6.6 SummaryAdditional Texts that May Belong to the mašmaššu-phase7.1 Omission and Inclusion of Titles7.2 Tablets Without Kiṣir-Aššur’s Professional Title7.3 Tablets with Broken Colophons7.4 The mašmaššu-phase and Purpose Statements7.5 A Discussion of the Dated Tablet KAR 2677.6 Other Technical Literature: BAM 307 and ACh Supp. 2 247.7 SummaryKiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase8.1 The Title mašmaš bīt Aššur8.2 Medical Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase8.3 Tested Prescriptions Among the Medical Texts8.4 Panaceas Among the Medical Texts8.5 Ritual Texts from Kiṣir-Aššur’s mašmaš bīt Aššur-phase8.6 Texts Connected to the Aššur Temple8.7 SummarySituating Kiṣir-Aššur’s Knowledge Production9.1 Kiṣir-Aššur’s Overall Medical Focus9.2 Numbered Nisḫu-extracts9.3 Catch-lines and Duplicate Passages in Kiṣir-Aššur’s Texts in Relation to the Therapeutic Series Ugu9.4 The Exorcist’s Manual (EM)9.5 Kiṣir-Aššur and the Scholarly Traditions in Assur9.6 SummarySynthesis and ConclusionCatalogue of TextsEdition of RA 15 pl. 76TransliterationGeneral ObservationsCommentaryBibliography 346Index