Translation and analysis of a cuneiform text forming part of a Babylonian treatise on epilepsy

Abstract

The paper has been completed with the considerable help of Professor Marten Stol of the University of Amsterdam whose insights into the reading and meaning of the text has improved understanding at many points, and who will shortly further the study of epilepsy in Babylon with a monograph given under his own name.For permission to publish in this Journal photographs of the tablet, BM 47753, grateful acknowledgement is made to the Trustees of The British Museum.1 There is authority for both numbers, and it is not yet clear which has the greater claim for acceptance.2 For this meaning, now established by a medical commentary, cf.Hermann Hunger, Spdtbabylonische

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