Research Catalog

Title

Magico-medical means of treating ghost-induced illnesses in ancient Mesopotamia / by JoAnn Scurlock.

Author

Scurlock, Jo Ann, 1953-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Styx, 2006.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 788 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ancient magic and divination ; 3

Uniform Title

Ancient magic and divination 3.

Subject

• Magic
• Medicine, Traditional
• Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
• Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian > Texts
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric > Iraq
• Parapsychology and medicine > Iraq
• Inscriptions, Assyro-Babylonian
• Diseases > Iraq > History > To 634
• Rites and ceremonies > Iraq > History > To 634 > Sources
• Medicine, Traditional
• Magic
• Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian > History
• Arabia
• Iraq > History > To 634
• Iraq

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, under the title: Magical Means of Dealing with Ghosts in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 753-761) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Symptoms of ghostly affliction -- 3. Time and place of performance of ritual cures -- 4. Legomena -- 5. Dromena -- 6. Medicaments : preliminary remarks -- 7. Conclusion -- A. Order of presentation -- B. Transliterations, translations, textual commentary -- C. Arrangement of prescriptions on the original tablets; text bibliographies -- D. Concordance : prescription numbers in magical means of dealing with ghosts in Ancient Mesopotamia (MMDG = the original PhD dissertation) to prescription numbers in magico-medical means of treating ghost-induced illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia (MMTGI = the current book).

ISBN

9004123970 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

^^2006276076

OCLC

65166247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library