Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian
Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various …

A stylized tree with obvious religious significance already occurs as an art motif in fourth-
millennium Mesopotamia, and, by the second millennium BC, it is found everywhere within …

The aim of this book is to track a distinct human phenomenon in the history of the ancient
Near East: persons who were born males, but under various social and historical …

Studies of Sumerian royal literature have primarily focused on the poems written for the
rulers of the Ur III (2112–2004 BCE) and Isin (2017–1793) dynasties, which form a relatively …

Many Sumerian literary compositions survive that describe life in ancient schools, known in
Sumerian as é. dub. ba. a. 1 This Edubba-literature, as it is often called, is a typical genre of …

In The Exegetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries Uri Gabbay offers the first
detailed study of the well-developed set of technical terms found in ancient Mesopotamian …

Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des
Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten …

By analysing the structure and logic of the Diagnostic Handbook, the Babylonian
understanding of medical diagnosis is investigated. Through a comparison of the systematic …

Franz Köchers standard work on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was designed to
provide copies of the texts with translation and commentary, had remained unfinished at his …

Injunctions to secrecy in the colophons of scholarly cuneiform tablets offer potential insights
into the classification and protection of knowledge in Mesopotamia. However, most models …