TM 58496
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also known as Traité d'Ophiologie; Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
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The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus (TM 58496), also often called the Traité d'Ophiologie after the Frence title of its edition, is an Egyptian papyrus acquired in 1899 by Wilbour and donated to the Brooklyn Museum, where it still is today.
It contains a medical treatise with a description of various types of snakes and the treament of their bites, based on the identification and the symptoms of the patient. Scorpion and spider bites are also included.
Provenance: Heliopolis (Tell Hisn) ? - Egypt (13th Lower Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
Language/script: Hieratic
Material: papyrus
Incompletely preserved
Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 25, 26, 27, 29
Content (beta!): scientific medical treatise on snakes
Culture & genre: literature, science — medicine, magic (religion: Egyptian)
Recto/Verso: Ro, back: blank
Note: red ink rubrics
More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM
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