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Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
This chapter is in the book Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
© 2023 New York University Press, New York, USA

© 2023 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents iii
  3. List of Figures iv
  4. List of Tables iv
  5. List of Abbreviations vi
  6. Notes on Editorial Procedure viii
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part 1: Medicine and Magic
  9. 1 A Medical Interpretation of Egyptian Magical Texts 7
  10. 2 Contending with Swellings in Ancient Egypt: Notions of Skin Disease and Disease Causation in Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg 23
  11. 3 Skin Deep: Cutaneous Treatment and Taboo in Graeco-Roman Egypt 57
  12. 4 A Miscellany of Mainly Medical Content: P.Brooklyn 47.218.47 101
  13. 5 Fifty Shades of Gyl: Deciphering the “Other” in Demotic Scientific Tradition 117
  14. 6 Medical Literary and Documentary Culture in the Graeco-Roman Fayum 157
  15. 7 The Movement of Fluids in Hippocratic Places in Man and the Egyptian Vessel System 183
  16. 8 An Overview on Eye Diseases in Coptic Medical Prescriptions 203
  17. 9 Signs of Sickness and Health in Ancient Mesopotamia: Some Notes on Comparing Terrestrial Omens and Medical Texts 219
  18. Part 2: Astronomy, Astrology, and Other Forms of Divination
  19. 10 The Study of Astronomical Papyri from Neugebauer to Today 253
  20. 11 Sothis Divination in Ancient Egypt 323
  21. 12 An Unpublished Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Temple Library: A Preliminary Report 367
  22. 13 To Agree or Not to Agree? One Astrological Problem in the Women’s Astrological Manuals (PSI inv. D35 + P. Carlsberg 100) 377
  23. 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) 393
  24. Appendices 417
  25. Indices 423
  26. Index Locorum 435
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479823123.003.0004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents iii
  3. List of Figures iv
  4. List of Tables iv
  5. List of Abbreviations vi
  6. Notes on Editorial Procedure viii
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part 1: Medicine and Magic
  9. 1 A Medical Interpretation of Egyptian Magical Texts 7
  10. 2 Contending with Swellings in Ancient Egypt: Notions of Skin Disease and Disease Causation in Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg 23
  11. 3 Skin Deep: Cutaneous Treatment and Taboo in Graeco-Roman Egypt 57
  12. 4 A Miscellany of Mainly Medical Content: P.Brooklyn 47.218.47 101
  13. 5 Fifty Shades of Gyl: Deciphering the “Other” in Demotic Scientific Tradition 117
  14. 6 Medical Literary and Documentary Culture in the Graeco-Roman Fayum 157
  15. 7 The Movement of Fluids in Hippocratic Places in Man and the Egyptian Vessel System 183
  16. 8 An Overview on Eye Diseases in Coptic Medical Prescriptions 203
  17. 9 Signs of Sickness and Health in Ancient Mesopotamia: Some Notes on Comparing Terrestrial Omens and Medical Texts 219
  18. Part 2: Astronomy, Astrology, and Other Forms of Divination
  19. 10 The Study of Astronomical Papyri from Neugebauer to Today 253
  20. 11 Sothis Divination in Ancient Egypt 323
  21. 12 An Unpublished Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Temple Library: A Preliminary Report 367
  22. 13 To Agree or Not to Agree? One Astrological Problem in the Women’s Astrological Manuals (PSI inv. D35 + P. Carlsberg 100) 377
  23. 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) 393
  24. Appendices 417
  25. Indices 423
  26. Index Locorum 435
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