Papyrus London 10059

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The Papyrus London 10059 (also Medical Papyrus London ) is an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus . It is dated to the end of the 18th dynasty (around 1350 BC) and is of unknown origin. After a donation from the Royal Institution of London , it came into the possession of the British Museum in 1860 .

The papyrus is 2.10 m long, 17 cm high and is in pretty poor condition. It consists of 19 pages with 61 texts, 25 of which are medical and the rest magical . Like the Hearst papyrus , it is a composite manuscript, but there are significantly more spells . Overall, various diseases are treated, including tumors , burns and blindness . A short section deals with gynecology . There is an interesting section that contains incantations on diseases in foreign languages ​​( Northwest Semitic and Cretan , apparently Minoan ), including the Asian disease . Many chapters show parallels to the Ebers papyrus .

See also

literature

  • Walter Wreszinski : The medicine of the ancient Egyptians. Volume 2: The London Medical Papyrus (Brit. Museum No. 10059) and the Hearst Papyrus. In transcription, translation and commentary. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1912, pp. 135-237, plates 1-19.
  • Hildegard von Deines, Hermann Grapow , Wolfhart Westendorf : Outline of the medicine of the ancient Egyptians. Several volumes on transcription, translation, commentary, dictionary, grammar, 1954–1973. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin.
  • John F. Nunn: Ancient Egyptian Medicine . The British Museum Press, London 1996, ISBN 0-7141-1906-7 , pp. 38-39 .
  • Wolfhart Westendorf: Handbuch der Altenägyptischen Medizin (= Handbuch der Orientalistik . = Handbook of oriental Studies. Department 1: The Near and the Middle East. = The Near and Middle East. Volume 36, Part 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 1999, ISBN 90-04-11320-7 , pp. 38-41.
  • Christian Leitz : Magical and Medical Papyri of the New Kingdom (=  Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum . Volume 7 ). British Museum Press, London 1999, ISBN 0-7141-1930-X .
  • Manuela Gander: The medical papyri - an overview. In: Kemet. Vol. 14, Issue 2 = Medicine and Magic , 2005, ISSN  0943-5972 , pp. 41–46, here p. 44.

Web links

Commons : London Medical Papyrus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Westendorf: Handbook of ancient Egyptian medicine. Cologne 1999, p. 38.