Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East : : Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York / / Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Sofie Schiødt.

• VerfasserIn: Schiødt, Sofie,; Jacob, Amber,; Ryholt, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: ISAW Monographs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 19 color illustrations, 32 black-and-white illustrations, 34 tables

Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient textsThe contributions in this volume revolve around a set of interconnected topics in the ancient sciences: medicine, astronomy, astrology, and divination. Several essays present unpublished textual sources or editions of new source material on divination (e.g., dream interpretation, personal astrology, and Sothis divination) and medicine (e.g., dermatology, gynecology, and apotropaic incantations). Other contributions provide new insights into known corpora or texts, such as the Assyro-Babylonian omens, the Hippocratic treatise Places in Man, Greco-Egyptian medical texts, and the vast astronomical corpus of Greco-Roman Egypt. The interdisciplinary milieu in which these essays were generated, under the aegis of the international Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SciPap) project, means that many of the studies embrace an explicitly and well-researched cross-cultural and comparative approach, revealing similarities in both certain conceptualizations of disease and healing, and astronomical literature and divinatory practice, across the Mediterranean and Near East. This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Editorial Procedure -- Introduction -- Part 1: Medicine and Magic -- 1 A Medical Interpretation of Egyptian Magical Texts -- 2 Contending with Swellings in Ancient Egypt: Notions of Skin Disease and Disease Causation in Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg -- 3 Skin Deep: Cutaneous Treatment and Taboo in Graeco-Roman Egypt -- 4 A Miscellany of Mainly Medical Content: P.Brooklyn 47.218.47 -- 5 Fifty Shades of Gyl: Deciphering the "Other" in Demotic Scientific Tradition -- 6 Medical Literary and Documentary Culture in the Graeco-Roman Fayum -- 7 The Movement of Fluids in Hippocratic Places in Man and the Egyptian Vessel System -- 8 An Overview on Eye Diseases in Coptic Medical Prescriptions -- 9 Signs of Sickness and Health in Ancient Mesopotamia: Some Notes on Comparing Terrestrial Omens and Medical Texts -- Part 2: Astronomy, Astrology, and Other Forms of Divination -- 10 The Study of Astronomical Papyri from Neugebauer to Today -- 11 Sothis Divination in Ancient Egypt -- 12 An Unpublished Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Temple Library: A Preliminary Report -- 13 To Agree or Not to Agree? One Astrological Problem in the Women's Astrological Manuals (PSI inv. D35 + P. Carlsberg 100) -- 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) -- Appendices -- Indices -- Index Locorum