Yerushalmi Sotah 9:4 ירושלמי סוטה ט׳:ד׳

MISHNAH: If his head is found at another place than his body, one brings⁷⁵For burial since an unknown slain person must be buried at the place he was found. In the Babli, 45b, and most Mishnah mss., the positions of Mishnaiot 3 and 4 are switched. his head to his body, the words of Rebbi Eliezer; Rebbi Aqiba says, the body to his head.

HALAKHAH: Rebbi Eleazar said, they disagree about burial⁷⁷In the Babli, 45b, R. Isaac based on tannaitic sources.. Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman in the name of Rebbi Jonathan: When do they disagree? If the head was higher but the body lower. But if the head was lower and the body higher everybody agrees that one brings the head to the body⁷⁸Because the body fell where he was killed but the head rolled down the incline.. If there was an incline⁷⁹The corresponding Babli word is מדרון. on both sides, do I say that the head fell to one side and the body to the other⁸⁰If head and body are found at two different sides of a mountain ridge. or does this head have no body and that body no head? If it was level, any distance it is usual to chop it off⁸¹It is reasonable to assume that a chopped-off head would fall so far away from the body which fell at the place he was killed. is one body; otherwise, the head has no body and the body no head⁸²And they must be buried separately..