Remedies for a Prince with a Nosebleed: SAA 10, 321–322 and the Missing Medical Tablet of Urad-Nanaya
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Date published
November 28, 2024
Abstract
K 1452, a previously unpublished tablet from the Kouyunjik Collection in the British Museum, contains pharmaceutical remedies and incantations against nasal haemorrhage. The format of this tablet suggests that it was prepared for practical purposes. Neo-Assyrian medical letters offer the closest parallels in Nineveh, and two of them, SAA 10, 321 and 322, record remedies for a prince suffering from a heavy nosebleed. The former letter also mentions a text ( ) sent by the chief physician. In this paper, it is argued that K 1452 may very well be the text mentioned in SAA 10 321.
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Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal: a multi-sectional analysis of Assyriology's foundational corpus
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| Funder name | ISNI | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council and DFG (German Research Foundation) | AHRC and DFG AH/T012773/1 | |
Journal title
Zeitschrift fà¼r Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archà¤ologie
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
ISSN
0084-5299
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1613-1150
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CC BY 4.0
