Disease in Babylonia / edited by I.L. Finkel and M.J. Geller.

This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on published and unpublished cuneiform medical texts. The volume contains editions of un...

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Superior document:Cuneiform monographs, v. 36
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Cuneiform monographs ; 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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