A new join to IGI 1

In their excellent new edition of the corpus of eye disease texts, Geller and Panayotov assign the small fragment AMT 12/5 to a group of Nineveh manuscripts that can only partially be related to the main IGI treatise.2 These related manuscripts and fragments are important because they share parallel passages with IGI but belong to other compilations of medical remedies, such as UGU that includes treatments for eye diseases as a part of its systematic overview of the medical conditions affecting the head. Geller and Panayotov record AMT 12/5 as one of these related Nineveh manuscripts, representing a parallel to IGI 1 lines 61′-63′.3 However, since the only bit of text preserved by AMT 12/5 is this three-line passage, one may also suggest that the fragment does not simply come from a related manuscript but actually belongs to the main IGI treatise. In this respect, Geller and Panayotov argued that AMT 12/5 is ‘too fragmentary to judge but might be a fourth duplicate to IGI Tablet One’.4 The aim of this short communication is to show that AMT 12/5 is neither a related manuscript nor a fourth duplicate to the first tablet of IGI. This small fragment is, in fact, a direct join to BAM 510, the main manuscript of IGI 1, and partially fills the gap towards the top of the second column of the tablet.