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This volume exposes one of the world’s oldest medical marketplaces and the emergence of medical professionalization within it. Through an unprecedented analysis of the Mesopotamian healing goddesses as well as asûs, a diverse group of “healers”, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt demonstrates that from the Middle Babylonian period onwards, the goddess Gula was employed as a divine legitimization model for scholarly, professional asûs. With this work, Sibbing-Plantholt provides a unique insight in processes

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Author

Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004512412

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25