Nils P Heessel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1439115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nils P Heessel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nils P |
| FAMILY NAME | Heessel |
| SIGNATURE | HEESSEL N P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Kassite Exercise Tablet with Omens Concerning the “Yoke” of the Liver
This paper offers an editio princeps of HS 1898, a Kassite exercise tablet containing an extract with ten liver omens followed by numeric tallies with the 10u-sign. The omens duplicate the fragmentary obverse of a Neo-Babylonian nīru-compendium, the reverse of which in turn replicated omens known from the fifteenth tablet of the bārûtu-series Pān tākalti and the unedited fragment from Nineveh. The student used complicated lexical and graphical va…
Būr-Sîn or Amar-Suʾena
A new fragment of a Neo-Assyrian extispicy text from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago contains selected omens from different chapters of the extispicy series bārûtu. One of these omens appears to be a parallel to a so-called historical omen thought to refer to King Būr-Sîn of Isin. The new omen, however, calls this interpretation into question, because it describes events otherwise attributed in the omen literature to King Amar…
Diagnosis, Mesopotamian
Medical diagnosis in Mesopotamia served to prognosticate the course, duration, and outcome of the sickness and to diagnose the disease.
Surgery, Mesopotamian
While it has been generally assumed that surgery was practiced as a last resort for injuries in military conflicts or accidents, Mesopotamian texts rarely mention surgical interventions.
Šumma ālu
Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin “If a City is Situated on a Height,” often abbreviated to šumma ālu , is the title of a Mesopotamian text series comprising one hundred and twenty tablets with more than ten thousand omens that could be observed within a city.
Šumma izbu
Šumma izbu “If an Anomaly” is the title of a Mesopotamian text series on unusual births, containing twenty‐four tablets with more than two thousand omens.
Medicine, Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian medicine developed out of folk tradition, characterized by basic beliefs in supernatural beings causing sickness and the efficacy of herbal remedies against disease. Texts dealing with medical problems are, therefore, mostly concerned with identifying the supernatural being responsible for the sickness of a patient, with the identification, healing power, and application of plants, and with prescriptions against all kinds of diseases…
Pharmacology, M esopotamian
As Mesopotamian medicine mainly relied on plants and herbs to counteract diseases, the knowledge of drugs and their interactions with the human body was essential for healers.
Tablets from the Sippar Library XII. A Medical Therapeutic Text
It has been noted with some regret, although with little surprise, that most of the tablets belonging to the Neo-Babylonian library discovered within the temple of Šamaš at Sippar duplicate texts already known to us. The medical tablet presented here, apart from being a welcome addition to the scarce number — compared to the Assyrian medical tablets — of medical texts from Babylonia, is therefore especially interesting as it contains an excerpt t…
Babylonisch-Assyrische Diagnostik
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Tablets from the Sippar Library XII. A Medical Therapeutic Text
It has been noted with some regret, although with little surprise, that most of the tablets belonging to the Neo-Babylonian library discovered within the temple of Šamaš at Sippar duplicate texts already known to us. The medical tablet presented here, apart from being a welcome addition to the scarce number — compared to the Assyrian medical tablets — of medical texts from Babylonia, is therefore especially interesting as it contains an excerpt t…
Babylonisch-Assyrische Diagnostik
Diagnosis, Mesopotamian
Medical diagnosis in Mesopotamia served to prognosticate the course, duration, and outcome of the sickness and to diagnose the disease.
Surgery, Mesopotamian
While it has been generally assumed that surgery was practiced as a last resort for injuries in military conflicts or accidents, Mesopotamian texts rarely mention surgical interventions.
Šumma ālu
Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin “If a City is Situated on a Height,” often abbreviated to šumma ālu , is the title of a Mesopotamian text series comprising one hundred and twenty tablets with more than ten thousand omens that could be observed within a city.
Šumma izbu
Šumma izbu “If an Anomaly” is the title of a Mesopotamian text series on unusual births, containing twenty‐four tablets with more than two thousand omens.
Medicine, Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian medicine developed out of folk tradition, characterized by basic beliefs in supernatural beings causing sickness and the efficacy of herbal remedies against disease. Texts dealing with medical problems are, therefore, mostly concerned with identifying the supernatural being responsible for the sickness of a patient, with the identification, healing power, and application of plants, and with prescriptions against all kinds of diseases…
Pharmacology, M esopotamian
As Mesopotamian medicine mainly relied on plants and herbs to counteract diseases, the knowledge of drugs and their interactions with the human body was essential for healers.
Būr-Sîn or Amar-Suʾena
A new fragment of a Neo-Assyrian extispicy text from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago contains selected omens from different chapters of the extispicy series bārûtu. One of these omens appears to be a parallel to a so-called historical omen thought to refer to King Būr-Sîn of Isin. The new omen, however, calls this interpretation into question, because it describes events otherwise attributed in the omen literature to King Amar…
A Kassite Exercise Tablet with Omens Concerning the “Yoke” of the Liver
This paper offers an editio princeps of HS 1898, a Kassite exercise tablet containing an extract with ten liver omens followed by numeric tallies with the 10u-sign. The omens duplicate the fragmentary obverse of a Neo-Babylonian nīru-compendium, the reverse of which in turn replicated omens known from the fifteenth tablet of the bārûtu-series Pān tākalti and the unedited fragment from Nineveh. The student used complicated lexical and graphical va…
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