List of Abbreviations

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21. 12 An Unpublished Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Temple Library: A Preliminary Report 367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