Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. / Band 10, : Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts ; The Nineveh Treatise / / Markham J. Geller, Strahil V. Panayotov; Franz Köcher, Robert D. Biggs.

• Funder: European Research Council (ERC)
• VerfasserIn: Geller, Markham J.,; Panayotov, Strahil V.,
• HerausgeberIn: Biggs, Robert D.,; Köcher, Franz,
• Author: European Research Council (ERC)
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen ; Band 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 454 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; 1. Overview of Cuneiform Eye Disease Texts (Panayotov) --; 2. Introduction: Eye Disease in Mesopotamia (Geller) --; § I. The Nineveh Manuscripts of Chapter One (IGI 1) --; Edition of IGI 1 --; § II. The Nineveh Manuscripts of Chapter Two (IGI 2) --; Edition of IGI 2 --; § III. The Nineveh Manuscripts of Chapter Three (IGI 3) --; Edition of IGI 3 --; § IV. Additional texts from Nineveh --; § V. From the Nineveh UGU treatise (BAM 480, 482) --; § VI. Diagnostic Medical Omens Concerned with Sick Eyes (Diagnostic Handbook, Sakikkû Chapter 5) by Eric Schmidtchen --; Notes --; Glossaries and Logograms with Cuneiform Signs --; Abbreviations and Literature --; Indices --; Plates
• ISBN: 1501506463; 1501506552
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Markham J. Geller, Strahil V. Panayotov; Franz Köcher, Robert D. Biggs.

There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English.