Mark Geller, Jewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies,University College London, March 28, 2022 British Museum Department of Middle East Newsletter The great Assyriological medical project that we have entitled NinMed has been running within the Department of the Middle East of the British Museum since 2020. Such international collaboration is not set up overnight, and […]
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Healthcare Fit for a King
The Middle East Department of the British Museum has just received a Wellcome Research Resources Award in Humanities and Social Science. The Project, ‘Introducing Assyrian Medicine: Healthcare Fit for a King’, plans to make the corpus of medical texts from Nineveh in the British Museum accessible online. The Wellcome award will be for up to […]
Markham J. Geller and Strahil V. Panayotov: The Nineveh Treatise. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Bd. 10.
Markham J. Geller and Strahil V. Panayotov The Nineveh Treatise Band 10 in Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen Funded by: European Research Council (ERC) De Gruyter | 2020 https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/528335 [Downloadable, likely by chapters, after June 15] ========================== OVERVIEW There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, […]
M. J. Geller receives Doctor Honoris Causa of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohritski
Doctor Honoris Causa of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski At a ceremony in Aulata, Professor Mark Geller was honored with the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski “. The proposal for awarding the honorary title of the oldest Bulgarian higher school is to the Faculty of Slavic Philology […]
Transliteration of BAM volumes 1-6 online (BabMed on CDLI)
BabMed PI Mark Geller and deputy head J. Cale Johnson would like to announce that transliterations of the first six volumes of Franz Köcher’s Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin (BAM) are now available online at CDLI: https://tinyurl.com/qpk7g8g Please send any comments, corrections or suggestions to the following email address: j.c.johnson@bham.ac.uk Preliminary versions of many of these […]
Visualizing the invisible…
Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world Edited by J. Cale Johnson and Alessandro Stavru De Gruyter (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 10) Hardcover ISBN 978-3-11-061826-6 RRP € [D] 99.95 / US$ 114.99 / GBP 91.00* OPEN ACCESS (through funding from the BabMed Project) Available online […]
The BabMed ERC-project has run its course, but is far from over
The end? Far from it… Over the past five years, the BabMed team and our project associates have worked hard to break the proverbial lock on Cuneiform and Talmudic medicine. It was the ERC 7th framework and the great support by Freie Universität Berlin, especially the Department of History and Cultural Studies, that […]
J. Cale Johnson at University of Birmingham
J. Cale Johnson left the Freie Universität Berlin in July 2017, but has kept his post as Deputy Head of the BabMed Project. We are happy to announce that he has now taken up a post as Senior Lecturer in Assyriology at the University of Birmingham’s department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/caha).
Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 31 (August 2018)
The Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 31 is out and will be sent to subscribers. You’ll find the contents of this new issue below. Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, 2018 – N° 31 Note des éditeurs Les parties du corps dans la série šumma amêlu suâlam maruṣ Danielle Sandra Cadelli Words for Loss of Sensation […]
BabMed imagefilm and MedComm trailer online
BabMed Youtube Channel is open now, featuring the BabMed Imagefilm and a short video on the Medical Commentaries conference held in September 2017 at MPIWG Berlin. Watch this video on YouTube Watch this video on YouTube
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