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Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York

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Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient textsThe contributions in this volume revolve around a set of interconnected topics in the ancient sciences: medicine, astronomy, astrology, and divination. Several essays present unpublished textual sources or editions of new...

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Main Authors: Schiødt, Sofie (Author) , Jacob, Amber (Author) , Ryholt, Kim (Author)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2023]
Series:ISAW Monographs
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479823123.001.0001
Subjects:
Konferenzschrift > 2018 > Kopenhagen
Wissenschaftstransfer
Kulturaustausch
Magie
Astrologie
Astronomie
Medizin
Mittelmeerraum
Alter Orient
Ägypten
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Author Notes:Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Sofie Schiødt
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Editorial Procedure
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Medicine and Magic
  • 1 A Medical Interpretation of Egyptian Magical Texts
  • 2 Contending with Swellings in Ancient Egypt: Notions of Skin Disease and Disease Causation in Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg
  • 3 Skin Deep: Cutaneous Treatment and Taboo in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  • 4 A Miscellany of Mainly Medical Content: P.Brooklyn 47.218.47
  • 5 Fifty Shades of Gyl: Deciphering the "Other" in Demotic Scientific Tradition
  • 6 Medical Literary and Documentary Culture in the Graeco-Roman Fayum
  • 7 The Movement of Fluids in Hippocratic Places in Man and the Egyptian Vessel System
  • 8 An Overview on Eye Diseases in Coptic Medical Prescriptions
  • 9 Signs of Sickness and Health in Ancient Mesopotamia: Some Notes on Comparing Terrestrial Omens and Medical Texts
  • Part 2: Astronomy, Astrology, and Other Forms of Divination
  • 10 The Study of Astronomical Papyri from Neugebauer to Today
  • 11 Sothis Divination in Ancient Egypt
  • 12 An Unpublished Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Temple Library: A Preliminary Report
  • 13 To Agree or Not to Agree? One Astrological Problem in the Women's Astrological Manuals (PSI inv. D35 + P. Carlsberg 100)
  • 14 Sex and Gender Balance in Oneirocritic Science: If Ancient Egyptian Women Could nk, then Men Were Allowed to Have Erotic Dreams, Too (with the Edition of P.Saqqara EES H5-DP 351 recto)
  • Appendices
  • Indices
  • Index Locorum

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