Medicine in Ancient Assur

A Microhistorical Study of the Neo-Assyrian Healer Kiṣir-Assur
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43607-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 766 g

Reihe: Ancient Magic and Divination

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arbøll, Troels Pank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations and Symbols

Symbols and Further Abbreviations

Introduction

1.1 Colophons

1.2 Mesopotamian Medicine

1.3 Authorship

1.4 Proof and Possibility

1.5 Scope and Structure

Framework and Background

2.1 Microhistory

2.2 Framework

2.3 Background for Studying Kisir-Aššur

2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kisir-Aššur’s Texts

Kisir-Aššur’s Magico-Medical Education as šamallû seHru

3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kisir-Aššur’s šamallû seHru Texts

3.2 Principles Understood Through Examples

3.3 The Head: BAM 9

3.4 The “Strings” and “Inner” Body

3.5 Snakes, Scorpions and Horses: A Discussion of RA 15 pl. 76

3.6 Gaining an Understanding of Anatomy and Physiology

3.7 Preparation for Other Duties as šamallû seHru

3.8 Summary

Training in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû seHru

4.1 The Role of Venom in Kisir-Aššur’s Anatomical Understanding

4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kisir-Aššur’s Education

4.3 Excursus: Animal Variants of Human Illnesses

4.4 Animal and Human Physiology: The Reverse of RA 15 pl. 76

4.5 Summary

Further Apprenticeship: šamallû to mašmaššu seHru

5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu seHru-phase

5.3 The mašmaššu seHru-phase

5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase

5.5 Summary

Kisir-Aššur’s mašmaššu-phase

6.1 Texts with Colophons Including the Title mašmaššu

6.2 Making House Calls: Discussion of KAR 230

6.3 Ritually Protecting the Houses of Clients: Discussion of KAR 298

6.4 Namburbi-rituals and House Calls: KAL 4 no. 7 and LKA 115

6.5 Other Technical Literature: CT 37 pl. 24f.

6.6 Summary

Additional Texts that May Belong to the mašmaššu-phase

7.1 Omission and Inclusion of Titles

7.2 Tablets Without Kisir-Aššur’s Professional Title

7.3 Tablets with Broken Colophons

7.4 The mašmaššu-phase and Purpose Statements

7.5 A Discussion of the Dated Tablet KAR 267

7.6 Other Technical Literature: BAM 307 and ACh Supp. 2 24

7.7 Summary

Kisir-Aššur’s mašmaš bit Aššur-phase

8.1 The Title mašmaš bit Aššur

8.2 Medical Texts from Kisir-Aššur’s mašmaš bit Aššur-phase

8.3 Tested Prescriptions Among the Medical Texts

8.4 Panaceas Among the Medical Texts

8.5 Ritual Texts from Kisir-Aššur’s mašmaš bit Aššur-phase

8.6 Texts Connected to the Aššur Temple

8.7 Summary

Situating Kisir-Aššur’s Knowledge Production

9.1 Kisir-Aššur’s Overall Medical Focus

9.2 Numbered NisHu-extracts

9.3 Catch-lines and Duplicate Passages in Kisir-Aššur’s Texts in Relation to the Therapeutic Series Ugu

9.4 The Exorcist’s Manual (EM)

9.5 Kisir-Aššur and the Scholarly Traditions in Assur

9.6 Summary

Synthesis and Conclusion

Catalogue of Texts

Edition of RA 15 pl. 76

Transliteration

General Observations

Commentary

Bibliography 346

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Troels Pank Arbøll, Ph.D. (2017) in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at that university. He is currently engaged in research on Mesopotamian medicine, magic, and the transmission of knowledge in the ancient world.