Superior tympanic artery

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Artery: Superior tympanic artery
The medial wall and part of the posterior and anterior walls of the right tympanic cavity, lateral view. (Artery not shown, but Tensor tympani indicated with arrow.)
Latin arteria tympanica superior
Gray's subject #144 561
Supplies Tensor tympani
Source middle meningeal artery   
Dorlands
/ Elsevier    		 a_61/12156462

The superior tympanic artery, a branch of the middle meningeal on entering the cranium, runs in the canal for the Tensor tympani, and supplies this muscle and the lining membrane of the canal.

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List of arteries of head and neck
CC/EC
cervical branches (ascending palatine, tonsillar, submental, glandular) - facial branches (inferior labial, superior labial/nasal septum, lateral nasal, angular)
CC/IC
orbital group: posterior ethmoidal - anterior ethmoidal (anterior septal, anterior lateral nasal, anterior meningeal) - lacrimal (lateral palpebral) - medial palpebral - terminal (supraorbital, supratrochlear, dorsal nasal)
ocular group: central retinal - ciliary (short posterior, long posterior, anterior) - hypophysial (superior, inferior)
SC
meningeal - spinal (posterior, anterior) - cerebellar (PICA)
basilar: pontine - labyrinthine - cerebellar (AICA, SCA) - cerebral (PCA)