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Band 10 Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts
The Nineveh Treatise
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Markham J. Geller
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Funded by:
European Research Council (ERC)
Languages:
English, Multiple languages
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Markham J. Geller and Strahil V. Panayotov, Free University Berlin, Germany.
Reviews
"All in all, Geller and Panayotov’s Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts proves
to be a thorough and valuable study of these works, providing an edition
accessible to a broad range of readers and easily usable for future research
on related topics." Franziska Desch in: Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science, 2021.
to be a thorough and valuable study of these works, providing an edition
accessible to a broad range of readers and easily usable for future research
on related topics." Franziska Desch in: Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science, 2021.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 26, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9781501506550
Hardcover published on:
October 26, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501515279
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
12
Main content:
454
Illustrations:
53
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Assyriology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and History, History of Medicine, History of Ophthalmology
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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