Ancient Egyptian Scientific Literature in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection
May 31st – June 1st, 2018
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Thursday May 31st:
09.00 – 09.30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE – room 15A.0.13
Session 1: Pharaonic Medicine
Chair: Fredrik Hagen
09:30 – 09:45 Opening remarks
09:45 – 10:15 Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
A Medico-Magical Handbook on Recipes for Eye Painting in Berlin (p10.484 + p 15.399)
10:15 – 11:00 Thierry Bardinet
Présentation de la première édition du papyrus Louvre E 32847
11:00 – 11:30 Sofie Schiødt
New Findings from the Unpublished Medical Papyrus Carlsberg 917
11:30 – 12:45 LUNCH
Session 2: Demotic & Greek Medicine
Chair: Luigi Prada
12:45 – 13:30 Claire Bubb
The Movement of Fluids in Hippocratic Places in Man and the Egyptian Vessel System
13:30 – 14:00 Amber Jacob
Proctological Treatments in the Carlsberg Demotic Medical Corpus
14.00 – 14:15 COFFEE
Session 3: Coptic Medicine
Chair: Friedhelm Hoffmann
14:15 – 15:00 Tonio Sebastian Richter
Four Late Coptic Medico-Alchemical Papyri in Oxford and Paris
15:00 – 15:30 Anne Grons
Coptic Pharmacological Texts: The Coptic Herbal P. Carlsberg 500
15:30 – 15:45 COFFEE
Session 4: Astrology & Astronomy
Chair: Kim Ryholt
15:45 – 16:15 Lingxin Zhang
An Astrological Manual from the Tebtunis Library Concerning Women
16:15 – 17:00 Alexander Jones
Astronomical Papyri: What Have We Learned Since 1999?
17:00-19:00 RECEPTION – room 10.3.28
18:00 Tour of the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection
