Mesopotamian eye disease texts: the Nineveh treatise

There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, lan...

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Auteurs: Geller, Markham J. 1949- (Auteur) ; Panayotov, Strahil V. 1981- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
Akkadien
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2020]
Dans:Année: 2020
Recensions:[Rezension von: Geller, Markham J., 1949-, Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band 10, Mesopotamian eye disease texts] (2023) (Schreiber, Marvin Franziskus)
Collection/Revue:Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 10
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Ninive / Inscription cunéiforme / Ophtalmologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B History, Ancient
B Nineveh / Ninos
B Mesopotamia (region)
B Texts
B Iraq ; Nineveh (Extinct city)
B Akkadian language Texts
B Sources
B Source
B Eye Diseases
B Cuneiform tablets (Iraq) (Nineveh (Extinct city))
B Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
B Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian Sources
B Cuneiform tablets
B Akkadian language
B Eye ; Diseases
Accès en ligne: Volltext (kostenfrei registrierungspflichtig)
Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Description matérielle:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 404 pages, 49 plates), illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:1501506463
Accès:Open Access