András Bácskay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | András Bácskay |
| GIVEN NAMES | András |
| FAMILY NAME | Bácskay |
| SIGNATURE | BÁCSKAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pázmány Péter Catholic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lamaštu and Pazuzu Amulets in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des monnaies, médailles et antiques
Dans la présente étude sont publiées quatre amulettes magiques jusqu’alors inconnues (deux plaques Lamaštu, un pendentif à tête de Pazuzu et un cachet en bronze avec une poignée à double face représentant une tête de Pazuzu) conservées au Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Outre les descriptions iconographiques de chaque objet, l’étude se concentre sur des aspects notables de la recherche, tels que, dans le cas des plaques Lamaštu, …
Medical and Magical Tablets from the Ninurta-aḫḫê-uballiṭ Archive at Nippur
A New Late Babylonian Manuscript of the Medical-magical Series ‘Fumigation’ ( qutāru )
Fumigation as a healing procedure was a widely used technique in Mesopotamian medicine with textual references to the existence of the medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’ known from the Late Babylonian period. BM 38438 represents a new manuscript of this text. In the first part of this paper, I provide a summary of all manuscripts of this medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’, while in the second part an edition of the new fragment will be presente…
Notes on Two Amulets (Tyszkiewicz and de Serres) Inscribed with Sumerian Incantations
This study supplements a previous paper that we published in this periodical: The Tyszkiewicz Amulet, a Chalcedony Pendant Inscribed with an Incantation on Thorn Bush: Notes on an Early Sumerian Kultmittelbeschwörung , AoF 46, 174–185. It compares the Tyszkiewicz amulet to another similar amulet formerly kept in the de Serres Collection and proposes that the two objects originate from the same workshop. Although the de Serres amulet bears a diffe…
Készíts amulettet, írd rá ezt a ráolvasást, majd akaszd a nyakába!”
Tanulmányunk a mezopotámiai orvosi-mágikus amulettek egyik sajátos csoportját, az agyaghengeres amuletteket vizsgálja. E tárgyak alakja a kőből készült pecséthengerekéhez hasonló, ám agyagból készültek, s a felületükön ráolvasások szövege olvasható, melyek sokszor az amulettek tulajdonosait is megnevezik. Munkánk célja a választott tárgytípus valamennyi darabjának összegyűjtése, azok osztályozása és elemzése a rajtuk szereplő feliratok alapján, t…
Therapeutic Prescriptions and Magical-Medical Rituals Against Fever
The tablet BM 55516+ contains therapeutic prescriptions (ointments and fumigations) and magical-medical rituals including incantations against fever (ummu) and “persistent fever” (ummu lazzu). I know of no duplicate, but the prescriptions and the incantations have several parallels on medical tablets from Assur, Nineveh, Kalhu, and Babylon. I first provide an edition of the tablet, including all parallels followed by a discussion of the two magic…
Medical Treatments against Respiratory Diseases, Ear Complaints and Migraine
L’article propose l’édition et l’analyse d’une tablette médicale inédite néo-babylonienne tardive provenant de la collection du British Museum. Dans la première partie, les principales caractéristiques de la tablette (provenance, orthographe et contenu) sont résumées et son texte est publié dans la deuxième partie de l’article. Bien que des parallèles de certaines prescriptions thérapeutiques individuelles puissent être trouvés dans des textes mé…
Medical Tablets From the Archive of the Egibi Family? An Edition of Bm 30918 and Bm 31071
Building on recent advances in the field of Neo- and Late Babylonian medicine, this paper presents the edition and thorough analysis of two unpublished medical tablets from the collections of the British Museum (BM 30918 and BM 31071). In the first part, the archival and social context of these tablets will be explored, while also reporting on findings about how they might fit into the larger corpus of Late Babylonian medical texts. The two table…
Járványok és dögvész az ókori Mezopotámiában
Cuneiform texts from the second and first millennium are one of the oldest sources for plague or pestilence in the ancient times. Letters from the royal archive of the kingdom Mari written in the early second millennium inform us individual cases of contaminations in royal court and the outbreak of plague in various cities. Similarly to the conception of diseases, plague and pestilence were considered as a punishment of the gods. Moreover, the co…
Two Sumerian incantations against migraine (sag̃-ki-dab-ba) on amulets and cuneiform tablets
This paper discusses two Sumerian incantations against headache (sag̃-ki-dab-ba) preserved on cuneiform medical tablets from the Neo-Assyrian and Late Babylonian period, as well as on two cylinder-shaped stone beads discovered in the royal tomb II. in North-West Palace at Kalhu. The importance of the incantations is twofold. First, they provide an example for the practical use of medical incantations. Second, the two incantations were an integral…
Magical elements of mesopotamian medical texts
The goal of this paper is to analise the magical elements of mesopotamian medical texts. The Mesopotamian concept of illness is interpreting physical complaints and pain, that is symptoms and illness, as messages from the gods (omens), claiming that medical texts deal with a specific type of this kind of message transfer, namely those cases when the bad omen occurs on the human body. In this article I introduce the sources and the cultural contex…
Illness or Symptom
It has been obvious for a long time that the so-called symptom descriptions in the source groups of Mesopotamian medicine (particularly in prescriptions of therapeutic and diagnostical/prognostic texts) cannot be exclusively applied to specific diseases, as the same symptoms appear in connection with a variety of illnesses, and symptom descriptions relating to individual diseases can be very varied. Although several attempts have been made by res…
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Illness or Symptom
It has been obvious for a long time that the so-called symptom descriptions in the source groups of Mesopotamian medicine (particularly in prescriptions of therapeutic and diagnostical/prognostic texts) cannot be exclusively applied to specific diseases, as the same symptoms appear in connection with a variety of illnesses, and symptom descriptions relating to individual diseases can be very varied. Although several attempts have been made by res…
Magical elements of mesopotamian medical texts
The goal of this paper is to analise the magical elements of mesopotamian medical texts. The Mesopotamian concept of illness is interpreting physical complaints and pain, that is symptoms and illness, as messages from the gods (omens), claiming that medical texts deal with a specific type of this kind of message transfer, namely those cases when the bad omen occurs on the human body. In this article I introduce the sources and the cultural contex…
Járványok és dögvész az ókori Mezopotámiában
Cuneiform texts from the second and first millennium are one of the oldest sources for plague or pestilence in the ancient times. Letters from the royal archive of the kingdom Mari written in the early second millennium inform us individual cases of contaminations in royal court and the outbreak of plague in various cities. Similarly to the conception of diseases, plague and pestilence were considered as a punishment of the gods. Moreover, the co…
Two Sumerian incantations against migraine (sag̃-ki-dab-ba) on amulets and cuneiform tablets
This paper discusses two Sumerian incantations against headache (sag̃-ki-dab-ba) preserved on cuneiform medical tablets from the Neo-Assyrian and Late Babylonian period, as well as on two cylinder-shaped stone beads discovered in the royal tomb II. in North-West Palace at Kalhu. The importance of the incantations is twofold. First, they provide an example for the practical use of medical incantations. Second, the two incantations were an integral…
Medical Treatments against Respiratory Diseases, Ear Complaints and Migraine
L’article propose l’édition et l’analyse d’une tablette médicale inédite néo-babylonienne tardive provenant de la collection du British Museum. Dans la première partie, les principales caractéristiques de la tablette (provenance, orthographe et contenu) sont résumées et son texte est publié dans la deuxième partie de l’article. Bien que des parallèles de certaines prescriptions thérapeutiques individuelles puissent être trouvés dans des textes mé…
Medical Tablets From the Archive of the Egibi Family? An Edition of Bm 30918 and Bm 31071
Building on recent advances in the field of Neo- and Late Babylonian medicine, this paper presents the edition and thorough analysis of two unpublished medical tablets from the collections of the British Museum (BM 30918 and BM 31071). In the first part, the archival and social context of these tablets will be explored, while also reporting on findings about how they might fit into the larger corpus of Late Babylonian medical texts. The two table…
Notes on Two Amulets (Tyszkiewicz and de Serres) Inscribed with Sumerian Incantations
This study supplements a previous paper that we published in this periodical: The Tyszkiewicz Amulet, a Chalcedony Pendant Inscribed with an Incantation on Thorn Bush: Notes on an Early Sumerian Kultmittelbeschwörung , AoF 46, 174–185. It compares the Tyszkiewicz amulet to another similar amulet formerly kept in the de Serres Collection and proposes that the two objects originate from the same workshop. Although the de Serres amulet bears a diffe…
Készíts amulettet, írd rá ezt a ráolvasást, majd akaszd a nyakába!”
Tanulmányunk a mezopotámiai orvosi-mágikus amulettek egyik sajátos csoportját, az agyaghengeres amuletteket vizsgálja. E tárgyak alakja a kőből készült pecséthengerekéhez hasonló, ám agyagból készültek, s a felületükön ráolvasások szövege olvasható, melyek sokszor az amulettek tulajdonosait is megnevezik. Munkánk célja a választott tárgytípus valamennyi darabjának összegyűjtése, azok osztályozása és elemzése a rajtuk szereplő feliratok alapján, t…
Therapeutic Prescriptions and Magical-Medical Rituals Against Fever
The tablet BM 55516+ contains therapeutic prescriptions (ointments and fumigations) and magical-medical rituals including incantations against fever (ummu) and “persistent fever” (ummu lazzu). I know of no duplicate, but the prescriptions and the incantations have several parallels on medical tablets from Assur, Nineveh, Kalhu, and Babylon. I first provide an edition of the tablet, including all parallels followed by a discussion of the two magic…
A New Late Babylonian Manuscript of the Medical-magical Series ‘Fumigation’ ( qutāru )
Fumigation as a healing procedure was a widely used technique in Mesopotamian medicine with textual references to the existence of the medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’ known from the Late Babylonian period. BM 38438 represents a new manuscript of this text. In the first part of this paper, I provide a summary of all manuscripts of this medical-magical series ‘Fumigation’, while in the second part an edition of the new fragment will be presente…
Medical and Magical Tablets from the Ninurta-aḫḫê-uballiṭ Archive at Nippur
Lamaštu and Pazuzu Amulets in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des monnaies, médailles et antiques
Dans la présente étude sont publiées quatre amulettes magiques jusqu’alors inconnues (deux plaques Lamaštu, un pendentif à tête de Pazuzu et un cachet en bronze avec une poignée à double face représentant une tête de Pazuzu) conservées au Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Outre les descriptions iconographiques de chaque objet, l’étude se concentre sur des aspects notables de la recherche, tels que, dans le cas des plaques Lamaštu, …
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