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TM 58496 / LDAB 58496 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/58496

also known as Traité d'Ophiologie; Brooklyn Medical Papyrus

TM Gallery info 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.

Metadata

Date: 6th - 4th century BC: BC 599 - 300

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

Publications

Sauneron, Un traité d'ophiologie, Bibliothèque d'Etude 11 p. 7-134 (Sauneron, Serge - 1989) [default]

Content studies: E. McBride, I. C. Winder, W. Wüster, Environmental Archaeology 2023 [DOI : 10.1080/14614103.2023.2266631]; K. Stegbauer, Das Brooklyner Schlangenbuch, tUAT-NF 5 (2010), p. 274-298 (translation)

Collections

→ New York, Brooklyn Museum Accession no. 47.218.48 + Accession no. 47.218.85

Archive

Temple library of Heliopolis

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    TM 58496

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