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Mulomedicina Chironis

(324 words)

Author(s): Fischer, Klaus (Bonn)
[German version] The MC which was allegedly written by the centaur Chiron (Chiron Centaurus) and was published for the first time in 1901, represents Antiquity's most important work on veterinary medicine. Its subjects are the illnesses of horses and mules which are treated by largely dispensing with medical theories (there are traces here and there of methodist concepts). There are parallels here with human medicine …

Lion

(1,653 words)

Author(s): Fischer, Klaus (Bonn) | Hünemörder, Christian (Hamburg)
[German version] I. Ancient Orient and Egypt The incidence of lions (Sumerian ur-maḫ, ur-gula, pirig; Akkadian nēšu, labbu; Egyptian rw, mj) is first attested for Mesopotamia in the Ur III period (2112-2004 BC). Sources subsequently only rarely mention their occurrence in Babylonia; on the other hand, there are many references from the middle Euphrates region and from Assyria (letters from Mari, hunting accounts of Neo-Assyrian kings). In Egypt lions were depicted from the prehistoric period and are attested well beyond the New Kingdom (1550-1070). In Egypt as well as in Mesop…