The Eye and Eye Diseases from the Perspective of Ancient Babylonian and Biblical Sources: A Study of Selected Texts
20 gru 2024
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Data publikacji: 20 gru 2024
Zakres stron: 127 - 136
Otrzymano: 19 paź 2024
Przyjęty: 04 lis 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2024-0016
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Cuneiform Eye disease texts, adapted from Panayotov, p_2
| 1 | x x ⌜še-bar⌝? utu | … (old reading [e]n ⌜e⌝-[nu-r]u/⌜d⌝utu) |
| 2 | 7 […] gi | and 7 reeds? |
| 3 | u4-⌜ten⌝-ta | 4you put 3in the evening |
| 4 | a-a ù-gar | in water. |
| 5 | ge6-ba-a-ka | At midnight |
| 6 | igi dutu-šè | – before dawn – |
| 7 | igi-a gar-ra | apply (the salve) onto the eye. |
| r.1 | eme-ni lú | The man who knows his language(-spell) |
| i-ni-zu | ||
| r.2 | a-rá-7-àm | r.3 rubs his eye (with the salve) r.2 seven times. |
| r.3 | igi-na bí-íb- | |
| ùr-e |
Diagnostics in Babylonia and Assyria, adapted from Heeßel, p_ 252_
| Nr. | Tables | Title of the chapter | Contents of the chapter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1–2 | When the conjurer goes to the patient's house | observations of a general nature on the way to and in the house of the sick person by the conjurer or another person |
| 2 | 3–14 | When you approach the patient | observations of symptoms on the patient's individual body parts from head to toe |
| 3 | 15–25 | When he is ill for a day | consideration of the onset of illness and the duration of the illness as well as observation of general symptoms on the patient's body |
| 4 | 26–30 | When a stroke strikes him – epilepsy symptoms | descriptions of symptoms in various forms of epilepsy |
| 5 | 31–35 | When the heat of the sun heats him up | predictions about the duration of fever illnesses, linking symptom observations and the identification of the cause of the illness with illness names |
| 6 | 36–40 | when a woman of childbearing age becomes pregnant | pregnancy prognoses, observations of illnesses during pregnancy as well as symptom observations in women's and children diseases |