Tanja Pommerening
Biographic Data
| ID | 4183846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanja Pommerening |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Pommerening |
| SIGNATURE | POMMERENING T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1584-564X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philological analysis of ancient Egyptian recipes supported by modern chemical profiling approaches
Ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical technologies contributed towards desired pharmacological effects, the compositum analysed indicated ingredient synergism from a modern perspective. Chemical profiling can support the philologist in commenting on the significance of processing practices, which can further aid understandings of ancient Egyptian sickness categories
Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos
This volume presents a collection of essays exploring transculturally and historically recurring conceptions of the human body and the natural world. Sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present. The contributions highlight the m…
Introduction
Internationalisation du débatLa décolonisation des disciplines académiques et des collections est un sujet de discussion international et interdisciplinaire intense depuis quelques temps déjà. Il s’agit également d’un sujet hautement politique et d’un débat public. Nous l’abordons sous différents angles et souhaitons souligner l’importance pour les collections universitaires de faire face à leur héritage colonial.En fin de compte, ce qui est perç…
Introducción
Internacionalizando el debateLa descolonización de disciplinas académicas y colecciones ha sido tema de intensa discusión internacional e interdisciplinaria durante algún tiempo. También es un tema altamente político y de debate público. Abordamos este tema desde diferentes perspectivas y queremos subrayar la importancia de que las colecciones universitarias también enfrenten su herencia colonial.Al final, lo que cuenta como objeto de procedencia…
Colonial discourse in the history of Marburg university collections
Four collections that originated in the context of formal or informal colonialism served as hosts for the workshop on “Decolonizing academic disciplines and collections” at the University of Marburg: the pharmacognostic, anatomical, and ethnographic collection and the Museum of Religions. Historically, the related academic disciplines had grown based on the study of items often appropriated against the will of source communities. Decolonizing has…
Introduction
Internationalizing the debateDecolonizing academic disciplines and collections has been a topic of intense international and interdisciplinary discussion for some time now. It is also a highly political topic and one of public discourse. We approach it from different perspectives and want to underline how important it is that university collections also face up to their colonial heritage.In the end, what finally counts as an object of colonial pr…
Das Honigmaß der Papyri Ebers und Hearst
The quantification of Ancient Egyptian drugs has been the subject of debate since the end of the 19 th century due to the lack of the units of measurement in the medical papyri and ostraca. While the reading of one of the main units, the corn-measure, was relatively clear from the beginning due to its specific set of numbers, the other main unit, the dja, could be identified and correctly calculated only at the beginning of the 21 st century. In …
An investigation of the pharmacological applications used for the Ancient Egyptian systemic model ‘ra-ib’ compared with modern Traditional Chinese Medicine
Having gained the ancient view of the body and illness, cultural comparisons are important for providing further potential insights and clarifications of a discontinued historical healing tradition. The new understanding of the ra-ib from our study greatly changes the way in which we understand the dynamics of Egyptian ethnopharmacological source material from this period
Blunt force trauma
In the course of a scientific cooperation between the German Mummy Project at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (Germany) and the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg (Luxembourg), an ancient Egyptian mummy head was analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach including radiocarbon dating, ultra-high resolution computed tomography, physical anthropology, forensic medicine and Egyptology. Dated to the Roman Period, the mummy head belong…
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a …
Herbal medicinal products – Evidence and tradition from a historical perspective
When registering Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products the criterion of evidence-based medicine will only be met if all the facts available are assessed and evaluated, over and above the formally stipulated regulatory provisions (30 years, product reference). To this end, the scientific methods (from among the natural, life or cultural sciences), which are recognized as authoritative in each case, must be applied
Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome
Ancient cultures have left written evidence of a variety of scientific texts. But how can/should they be translated? Is it possible to use modern concepts (and terminology) in their translation and which consequences result from this practice? Scholars of various disciplines discuss the practice of translating ancient scientific texts and present examples of these texts and their translations.
Weights and measures, Pharaonic Egypt
Political and economic centralism in Pharaonic Egypt necessitated a system of standardized weights and measures.
Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers ‐ even the cultures of the “pre-modern” world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? …
The Early Dynastic origin of the water-lily motif
The association of the water-lily with architecture and art is one of the most familiar visual aspects of the ancient Egyptian culture. However, the earliest representations of the water-lily date only to the Naqada III period. The finds of that period are discussed using the available archaeological and environmental data. An interdisciplinary approach allows the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the plant within the cultural context of …
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Altägyptische Rezepturen metrologisch neu interpretiert
Starting point of this article is a problem obvious to anybody who reads the medical papyri of ancient Egypt from the New Kingdom and the Late Period: the prescriptions contain two dyadic systems of notation for measures of capacity without specifying the unit of measurement, firstly the Horus eye fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 which are unanimously assumed to refer to the single Heqat and secondly the ‘normal’ dyadic fractions from…
Dokumentation und Information
Wissenschaftliches Symposium am 15. und 16. März 2002 anläßlich der Ausstellung „Der Papyrus Ebers. Die größte Buchrolle zur Heilkunde Altägyptens”︁ in der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Altägyptische Rezepturen metrologisch neu interpretiert
Starting point of this article is a problem obvious to anybody who reads the medical papyri of ancient Egypt from the New Kingdom and the Late Period: the prescriptions contain two dyadic systems of notation for measures of capacity without specifying the unit of measurement, firstly the Horus eye fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 which are unanimously assumed to refer to the single Heqat and secondly the ‘normal’ dyadic fractions from…
Dokumentation und Information
Wissenschaftliches Symposium am 15. und 16. März 2002 anläßlich der Ausstellung „Der Papyrus Ebers. Die größte Buchrolle zur Heilkunde Altägyptens”︁ in der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Altägyptische Rezepturen metrologisch neu interpretiert
Starting point of this article is a problem obvious to anybody who reads the medical papyri of ancient Egypt from the New Kingdom and the Late Period: the prescriptions contain two dyadic systems of notation for measures of capacity without specifying the unit of measurement, firstly the Horus eye fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 which are unanimously assumed to refer to the single Heqat and secondly the ‘normal’ dyadic fractions from…
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Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers ‐ even the cultures of the “pre-modern” world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? …
The Early Dynastic origin of the water-lily motif
The association of the water-lily with architecture and art is one of the most familiar visual aspects of the ancient Egyptian culture. However, the earliest representations of the water-lily date only to the Naqada III period. The finds of that period are discussed using the available archaeological and environmental data. An interdisciplinary approach allows the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the plant within the cultural context of …
Weights and measures, Pharaonic Egypt
Political and economic centralism in Pharaonic Egypt necessitated a system of standardized weights and measures.
Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome
Ancient cultures have left written evidence of a variety of scientific texts. But how can/should they be translated? Is it possible to use modern concepts (and terminology) in their translation and which consequences result from this practice? Scholars of various disciplines discuss the practice of translating ancient scientific texts and present examples of these texts and their translations.
Herbal medicinal products – Evidence and tradition from a historical perspective
When registering Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products the criterion of evidence-based medicine will only be met if all the facts available are assessed and evaluated, over and above the formally stipulated regulatory provisions (30 years, product reference). To this end, the scientific methods (from among the natural, life or cultural sciences), which are recognized as authoritative in each case, must be applied
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a …
Blunt force trauma
In the course of a scientific cooperation between the German Mummy Project at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (Germany) and the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg (Luxembourg), an ancient Egyptian mummy head was analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach including radiocarbon dating, ultra-high resolution computed tomography, physical anthropology, forensic medicine and Egyptology. Dated to the Roman Period, the mummy head belong…
An investigation of the pharmacological applications used for the Ancient Egyptian systemic model ‘ra-ib’ compared with modern Traditional Chinese Medicine
Having gained the ancient view of the body and illness, cultural comparisons are important for providing further potential insights and clarifications of a discontinued historical healing tradition. The new understanding of the ra-ib from our study greatly changes the way in which we understand the dynamics of Egyptian ethnopharmacological source material from this period
Das Honigmaß der Papyri Ebers und Hearst
The quantification of Ancient Egyptian drugs has been the subject of debate since the end of the 19 th century due to the lack of the units of measurement in the medical papyri and ostraca. While the reading of one of the main units, the corn-measure, was relatively clear from the beginning due to its specific set of numbers, the other main unit, the dja, could be identified and correctly calculated only at the beginning of the 21 st century. In …
Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos
This volume presents a collection of essays exploring transculturally and historically recurring conceptions of the human body and the natural world. Sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present. The contributions highlight the m…
Introduction
Internationalisation du débatLa décolonisation des disciplines académiques et des collections est un sujet de discussion international et interdisciplinaire intense depuis quelques temps déjà. Il s’agit également d’un sujet hautement politique et d’un débat public. Nous l’abordons sous différents angles et souhaitons souligner l’importance pour les collections universitaires de faire face à leur héritage colonial.En fin de compte, ce qui est perç…
Introducción
Internacionalizando el debateLa descolonización de disciplinas académicas y colecciones ha sido tema de intensa discusión internacional e interdisciplinaria durante algún tiempo. También es un tema altamente político y de debate público. Abordamos este tema desde diferentes perspectivas y queremos subrayar la importancia de que las colecciones universitarias también enfrenten su herencia colonial.Al final, lo que cuenta como objeto de procedencia…
Colonial discourse in the history of Marburg university collections
Four collections that originated in the context of formal or informal colonialism served as hosts for the workshop on “Decolonizing academic disciplines and collections” at the University of Marburg: the pharmacognostic, anatomical, and ethnographic collection and the Museum of Religions. Historically, the related academic disciplines had grown based on the study of items often appropriated against the will of source communities. Decolonizing has…
Introduction
Internationalizing the debateDecolonizing academic disciplines and collections has been a topic of intense international and interdisciplinary discussion for some time now. It is also a highly political topic and one of public discourse. We approach it from different perspectives and want to underline how important it is that university collections also face up to their colonial heritage.In the end, what finally counts as an object of colonial pr…
Philological analysis of ancient Egyptian recipes supported by modern chemical profiling approaches
Ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical technologies contributed towards desired pharmacological effects, the compositum analysed indicated ingredient synergism from a modern perspective. Chemical profiling can support the philologist in commenting on the significance of processing practices, which can further aid understandings of ancient Egyptian sickness categories
Art (11 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)