The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, UC 32057). Transcription-Transliteration-Translation. Lexical, syntactic, semantic considerations, medical commentaries.
| N° d'inventaire | 20943 |
| Format | 17.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 516 p., numerous illustrations and 11 black and white plates outside the text, paperback. |
| Publication | Brest, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365180252 |
This work offers an original interpretation of the "Gynecological Papyrus of Kahun", which is one of the oldest medical papyri known to date. Some date this papyrus to the reign of Senusret III - Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c. 1860 BC -, others, less categorical, to the last third of the 12th or even the beginning of the 12th Dynasty - end of the Middle Kingdom/beginning of the Second Intermediate Period.
Very fragmentary, it was about 1 m long and slightly less than 32.5 cm high, after the meticulous restoration carried out by F. LI. Griffith in 1890.
It is from the facsimiles produced by the latter that the present work was carried out.
Written in hieratic, the text offers thirty-four gyneco-obstetric CASes distributed over three columns.
Each of these CASes is here the subject of a hieroglyphic transcription, a transliteration, a translation and finally medical commentaries, inseparable from lexical, syntactic and semantic considerations.
Many hypotheses are formulated in this study, many questions unfortunately remain unanswered, entire sections of text having disappeared due to the state of deterioration in which the document is found.
At the end of the book there is an Egyptian-French Lexicon and a French-Egyptian lexicon relating to the "Gynecological Papyrus of Kahun", as well as the reproduction of the text in hieratic from the facsimiles proposed by Griffith in 1898 in his "Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob - plates volume".
This work offers an original interpretation of the "Gynecological Papyrus of Kahun", which is one of the oldest medical papyri known to date. Some date this papyrus to the reign of Senusret III - Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c. 1860 BC -, others, less categorical, to the last third of the 12th or even the beginning of the 12th Dynasty - end of the Middle Kingdom/beginning of the Second Intermediate Period.
Very fragmentary, it was about 1 m long and slightly less than 32.5 cm high, after the meticulous restoration carried out by F. LI. Griffith in 1890.
It is from the facsimiles produced by the latter that the present work was carried out.
Written in hieratic, the text offers thirty-four gyneco-obstetric CASes distributed over three columns.
Each of these CASes is here the subject of a hieroglyphic transcription, a transliteration, a translation and finally medical commentaries, inseparable from lexical, syntactic and semantic considerations.
Many hypotheses are formulated in this study, many questions unfortunately remain unanswered, entire sections of text having disappeared due to the state of deterioration in which the document is found.
At the end of the book there is an Egyptian-French Lexicon and a French-Egyptian lexicon relating to the "Gynecological Papyrus of Kahun", as well as the reproduction of the text in hieratic from the facsimiles proposed by Griffith in 1898 in his "Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob - plates volume".