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Like an alien in a strange old world – Reading Mesopotamian medical texts on...
By Ulrike Steinert Decoding medical cuneiform texts often makes you feel a bit like a detective who has entered a mysterious, foreign world of words and ideas. Not few of my Assyriologist colleagues...
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By Ulrike Steinert In my first post on the blog, I described some of the difficulties in studying Mesopotamian medical texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Babylonia and Assyria. In the following two...
View ArticleI smell a rat! Fumigation in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic recipes for women’s...
By Ulrike Steinert In this post, I will introduce Hippocratic prescriptions for fumigation from below and compare the uses of this treatment form in Mesopotamian and Hippocratic gynaecology. Some...
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