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The Eye and Eye Diseases from the Perspective of Ancient Babylonian and Biblical Sources: A Study of Selected Texts Cover

The Eye and Eye Diseases from the Perspective of Ancient Babylonian and Biblical Sources: A Study of Selected Texts

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Figures & Tables

Fig. 1

Babylonia at the time of Hammurabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi#/media/File:Hammurabi's_Babylonia_1.svg

Fig. 2

The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1904 The Code of Hammurabi translated by L.W.King in The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Lay Library, 2008.

Cuneiform Eye disease texts, adapted from Panayotov, p_2

1x x ⌜še-bar⌝? utu… (old reading [e]n ⌜e⌝-[nu-r]u/⌜d⌝utu)
27 […] giand 7 reeds?
3u4-⌜ten⌝-ta4you put 3in the evening
4a-a ù-garin water.
5ge6-ba-a-kaAt midnight
6igi dutu-šè– before dawn –
7igi-a gar-raapply (the salve) onto the eye.
r.1eme-ni lúThe man who knows his language(-spell)
i-ni-zu
r.2a-rá-7-àmr.3 rubs his eye (with the salve) r.2 seven times.
r.3igi-na bí-íb-
ùr-e

Diagnostics in Babylonia and Assyria, adapted from Heeßel, p_ 252_

Nr.TablesTitle of the chapterContents of the chapter
11–2When the conjurer goes to the patient's houseobservations of a general nature on the way to and in the house of the sick person by the conjurer or another person
23–14When you approach the patientobservations of symptoms on the patient's individual body parts from head to toe
315–25When he is ill for a dayconsideration of the onset of illness and the duration of the illness as well as observation of general symptoms on the patient's body
426–30When a stroke strikes him – epilepsy symptomsdescriptions of symptoms in various forms of epilepsy
531–35When the heat of the sun heats him uppredictions about the duration of fever illnesses, linking symptom observations and the identification of the cause of the illness with illness names
636–40when a woman of childbearing age becomes pregnantpregnancy prognoses, observations of illnesses during pregnancy as well as symptom observations in women's and children diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2024-0016 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4139 | Journal ISSN: 1335-8421
Language: English
Page range: 127 - 136
Submitted on: Oct 19, 2024
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2024
Published on: Dec 20, 2024
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