{"id":3658,"date":"2016-11-01T20:12:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papyrus.studiomink.de\/en\/?page_id=3658"},"modified":"2017-05-09T17:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:11:51","slug":"the-scroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papyrusebers.de\/en\/the-scroll\/","title":{"rendered":"The scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Papyrus Ebers<\/strong>
\nThe Ebers Papyrus is the largest, most beautiful, most important and only completely bequeathed scroll of ancient Egyptian medicine. The Ebers Papyrus is a unicum and the main source of knowledge about the old Egyptian medicine.<\/p>\n

Name:<\/strong> The scroll is named after its publisher, the Leipzig explorer and Egyptologist Georg Ebers (1837-1898).<\/p>\n

Acquisition:<\/strong> Georg Ebers purchased the papyrus scroll in Thebes (Upper Egypt) in the winter of 1872\/73.<\/p>\n

Storage:<\/strong> The Ebers Papyrus is the property of the university library of Leipzig since 1873.<\/p>\n

Measurements:<\/strong> The scroll measures 18,63 m\/20,37 yards in length and 0,30 m\/11,81 inches in height.<\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong> The scroll originates in the last quarter of the 16th century BC.<\/p>\n

Origin:<\/strong> It is presumed that the Ebers Papyrus was found in a grave near Thebes.<\/p>\n

Script\/language:<\/strong> The text is written in hieratic script, from right to left in black ink; red is used for headings and indications of measurements.<\/p>\n

Material and form:<\/strong> The Ebers Papyrus is a scroll consisting of 48 single papyrus sheets glued together. When discovered, the scroll was complete. For better conservation it was later cut into 29 pieces. Since the Second World War a few columns have been lost or damaged. In the presentation these columns are replaced by the facsimile produced by Georg Ebers in 1875.<\/p>\n

Content and structure:<\/strong> The Ebers Papyrus is a brief textbook of 110 columns about Ancient Egyptian medicine. Columns 103-110 were written on the backside of columns 102-94. On the back of column I there is a famous calendar which includes the date of the Sotis rising in the 9th year of the reign of Amenophis I (1525-1504 BC). The Ebers Papyrus contains 879 individual texts, describing about 80 different illnesses and their treatments.<\/p>\n

IIIF: https:\/\/iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de\/0000000001\/manifest.json<\/a><\/a>  \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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