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Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts

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Franz Köcher's magnum opus on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was envisioned to include cuneiform copies, translations, and commentary, was unfinished at his death in 2002 with six volumes ...
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  • 26 October 2020
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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.
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Price: $270.00
Pages: 466
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 26 October 2020
ISBN: 9781501515279
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS026000 HISTORY / Middle East / General, MED039000 MEDICAL / History
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Markham J. Geller und Strahil V. Panayotov, Freie Universiät Berlin.

Markham J. Geller and Strahil V. Panayotov, Free University Berlin, Germany.