The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia : : ›Nīš Libbi‹ Therapies / / Gioele Zisa.
After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical Traditions : The Written Memory of World Medicine ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXIV, 588 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Bibliographical abbreviations
- Editorial abbreviations and sigla
- Part I: Interpretative analysis of the corpus
- Chapter I Nīš libbi therapies and theoretical and methodological introduction
- Chapter II Nīš libbi incantations
- Chapter III Rituals and prescriptions
- Conclusions. Therapeutic efficacy and analogical thinking
- Part II: Edition
- Nīš libbi catalogue LKA 94
- I Texts from Aššur (with duplicates from other sites)
- II Texts from Nineveh (with duplicates from other sites)
- III Text from Sultantepe (with duplicates from other sites)
- IV Texts from Uruk (with duplicates from other sites)
- V Texts from Boghazköy
- VI Ritual fragments from Nineveh and Aššur
- VII Ritual fragments from Sippar and Uruk
- VIII Ritual fragments from Boghazköy
- List of mineral and botanical ingredients
- Index of ingredients
- Concordances
- Bibliography
- Index of Akkadian terms and expressions discussed
- Index