Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
19-20 September 2019, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Thursday September 19
8:45-9:15 Registration
Session 1
Chair: Friedhelm Hoffmann
9:15-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:00 Robert Kade – 50 Shades of gyl: Deciphering the Other in Demotic Scientific Traditions
10:00-10:30 Anne Grons – The Coptic Herbal P. Carlsberg 500 and the Treatment of “Mist” in an Eye
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Kim Ryholt
11:00-11:45 Joachim Quack – A miscellany of mainly medical content: pBrooklyn 47.218.47
11:45-12:15 Amber Jacob – Skin Deep: Cutaneous Treatment and Taboo in Graeco-Roman Egypt
12:15-12:45 Nicola Reggiani – Medical Literary and Documentary Culture in Graeco-Roman Fayum
12:45-1:45 Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Claire Bubb
1:45-2:15 Monika Amsler – Recipes, Foodstuffs, and Words: The Theory Behind Voces Magicae
2:15-2:45 Kassandra Jackson Miller – When Hours Are Numbered: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Timekeeping in Imperial-Period Medicine
2:45-3:15 Coffee break
Session 4
Chair: Joachim Quack
3:15-4:00 Friedhelm Hoffmann – A Medical Interpretation of Egyptian Magical Texts
4:00-4:45 Richard Jasnow – Medicine, Dreams, and Imhotep in the Book of Thoth
5:00-7:00 Reception
Friday September 20
Session 1
Chair: Luigi Prada
9:30-10:30 Key note: Kim Ryholt – Manuals on Sothis Divination from the Tebtunis Temple Library
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Alexander Jones
11:00-11:30 Marina Escolano-Poveda – Astronomica Montserratensia: P. Monts.Roca inv. 314 and the Transmission of Mesopotamian Astronomy to the Graeco-Roman World Through Egypt
11:30-12:00 Lingxin Zhang – The Astrological Features in the Women’s Astrological Manuals
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Richard Jasnow
1:00-1:45 Luigi Prada – Dreaming Physiology: Health, Illness, and Sexuality through the Lens of Ancient Egyptian Oneiromancy
1:45-2:15 Calloway Scott – Dream-Science, Medicine, and the Organization of Knowledge in Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica
2:15-2:45 Francesca Minen – Signs of Sickness and Health in Ancient Mesopotamia. For a Comparative Study of Terrestrial Omens and Medical Texts from the World of Cuneiform Culture
2:45-3:15 Coffee break
Session 4
Chair: Fredrik Hagen
3:15-4:00 Barbara Böck – The Body in the Ancient Babylonian Mind
4:00-4:30 Sofie Schiødt – Contending with Swellings in New Kingdom Egypt
4:30-5:00 Jonny Russell – Investigations into Theoretical Paradigms of Egyptian and Mesopotamian Healing: A Progress Report
6:00- Conference dinner
