BM 92518 and Old Babylonian Incantations for the “Belly”
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
BM 92518 and Old Babylonian Incantations for the “Belly”
Original language description
This chapter offers an in-depth study of texts from the Old Babylonian period (2003-1595 BC) intended to bring about or facilitate the healing process of gastro-intestinal disorders. It discusses the structure, formal organization, and content of the magical incantations used by ancient Mesopotamian healers to relieve their patients from such digestive trouble as abdominal pain, flatulence, constipation, overproduction of gall. Using relevant examples, the chapter also analyzes the ways of transmission of this part of Mesopotamian medical tradition to the first millennium BC, as well as its adoption and adaptation in the first millennium medical compendia. The study is based upon a critical edition of the Old Babylonian bilingual (Sumerian and Akkadian) incantation BM 92518 (= CT 4 8a).
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ15-04166Y" target="_blank" >GJ15-04166Y: Studies in Royal Praise Poetry of King Šulgi of Ur</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller
ISBN
978-90-04-36806-4
Number of pages of the result
47
Pages from-to
698-744
Number of pages of the book
967
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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