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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Medicine in ancient Assur
    sub title: a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Aššur
  name:
    name part: Arbøll, Troels Pank
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE. The book provides the first detailed analysis of a healer's education and practice in ancient Mesopotamia based on at least 73 texts assigned to specific stages of his career. By drawing on a microhistorical framework, the study aims at significantly improving our understanding of the functional aspects of texts in their specialist environment. Furthermore, the work situates Kiṣir-Aššur as one of the earliest healers in world history for whom we have such details pertaining to his career originating from his own time"--
  table of contents: 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 Kiṣir-Aššur -- 2.4 Quantifying and Contextualizing Kiṣir-Aššur's Texts -- Kiṣir-Aššur's Magico-Medical Education as šamallû ṣeḫru -- 3.1 Complex Diagnoses in Kiṣir-Aššur's šamallû ṣeḫru 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 ṣeḫru -- 3.8 Summary -- Training in Anatomy and Physiology as šamallû ṣeḫru -- 4.1 The Role of Venom in Kiṣir-Aššur's Anatomical Understanding -- 4.2 Veterinarian Knowledge in Kiṣir-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 ṣeḫru -- 5.2 The šamallû mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase -- 5.3 The mašmaššu ṣeḫru-phase -- 5.4 Excursus: The ša Nabû tuklassu-phrase -- 5.5 Summary -- Kiṣir-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 numbers 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 Kiṣir-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: BA…
  note: Troels Pank Arbøll.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-iq---
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL / History
  classification: R135.3
  classification: 610.938
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    origin info:
      publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
    identifier: (DLC) 2020029398
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  identifier: 9789004436084
  identifier: 9004436081
  identifier: 9789004436077
  identifier: 2020029399
  identifier: 22573/ctv1snfmr2 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv1sr6hdj
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200707
    record change date: 20220105170750.0
    record identifier: in00004360130
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng