| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 188 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
| Contents |
Venomous snakes in ancient Egypt -- Methodological considerations -- Brooklyn Medical Papyrus Registers 14 to 37 -- Results and conclusions |
| Summary |
"This book offers a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, a pragmatic medical treatise from ancient Egypt concerned with snake identification, snakebite, and treatment. Dating to sometime in the seventh through fourth centuries BCE, the document is the first-known structured treatise on snakebites from antiquity. The papyrus was first translated into French by Serge Sauneron and published posthumously in 1989. Major advances in fields such as biogeography, climate and niche modeling, and linguistics in the past thirty years have brought new perspectives. The authors provide a review of Sauneron's and more recent studies and bring their own investigations, results, and comparisons to further clarify this historical document"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Translated from the Ancient Egyptian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; some text in ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphic script and transliteration) with English translation |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 13, 2024) |
| Subject |
Brooklyn Museum. Manuscript. Papyrus no. 47.218.48.
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Brooklyn Museum. Manuscript. Papyrus no. 47-218.85.
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Snakes -- Egypt
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Snakebites -- Treatment -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meltzer, Edmund S., author.
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Wüster, W. (Wolfgang), author.
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Casewell, Nicholas R., author.
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Schuett, Gordon W., author.
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Brooklyn Museum. Manuscript. Papyrus no. 47.218.48.
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Brooklyn Museum. Manuscript. Papyrus no. 47-218.85.
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| LC no. |
2024001009 |
| ISBN |
9781957454047 |
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1957454040 |
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