The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia : Nīš Libbi Therapies / Gioele Zisa ; with a foreword by Alessandro Lupo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zisa, Gioele, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Medical traditions ; v. 5.

Medical Traditions ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Bibliographical abbreviations

Editorial abbreviations and sigla

Part I: Interpretative analysis of the corpus

Chapter I Nīš libbi therapies and theoretical and methodological introduction

Chapter II Nīš libbi incantations

Chapter III Rituals and prescriptions

Conclusions. Therapeutic efficacy and analogical thinking

Part II: Edition

Nīš libbi catalogue LKA 94

I Texts from Aššur (with duplicates from other sites)

II Texts from Nineveh (with duplicates from other sites)

III Text from Sultantepe (with duplicates from other sites)

IV Texts from Uruk (with duplicates from other sites)

V Texts from Boghazköy

VI Ritual fragments from Nineveh and Aššur

VII Ritual fragments from Sippar and Uruk

VIII Ritual fragments from Boghazköy

List of mineral and botanical ingredients

Index of ingredients

Concordances

Bibliography

Index of Akkadian terms and expressions discussed

Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Zisa, Gioele The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia

ISBN:

9783110757262

3110757265

Publisher Number:

40030891763

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