RT Article
T1 Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder
JF Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
VO 111
IS 1
SP 47
OP 76
A1 Rumor, Maddalena
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1876993200
AB This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95-97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification of the astrological square aspect (perhaps called é , bītu , "house") in Babylonia, a connection with Hermeticism and the Greek medical theory of Critical Days, and the textual demonstration that Dreckapotheke -names did indeed refer to healing plants, in such a context.
DO 10.1515/za-2021-0007