The loss of male sexual desire in ancient Mesopotamia : Nīš Libbi therapies / Gioele Zisa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zisa, Gioele, author.

Series:

Medical Traditions

Medical Traditions ; v.5

Language:

Akkadian

English

Sumerian

Subjects (All):

Sexual disorders--Alternative treatment.

Sexual disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (612 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume.The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīs libbi therapies.sà -zi-ga in Sumerian, nīs libbi in Akkadian, lit.

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:

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Other Format:

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

ISBN:

3-11-075726-5

OCLC:

1287131255