Talk:Ebers Papyrus/Archive 1

Length of Roll
I would like to point out that although the numbering of the columns on Papyrus Ebers does end with 110, there are in fact only 108 columns; the scribe who numbered the pages, who was not the same as the scribe who wrote out the text, skipped numbers 28 and 29. This was most likely due to the fact that 110 was a special number to the Egyptians, and moreover that 110 years was for them the ideal lifespan.

I am grateful for this information to Diana Beuster, PhD candidate in Classics at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, who presented a resume of this papyrus at the 4th Annual Texts in Context Conference, October 26th - 27th, 2007, sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University, Prof. Frank Coulson, Director.

According to Ms. Beuster, there has been little work done on this papyrus in a number of years since the first edition and translation, with the exception of the calendrical text that appears on the back of it.

-Rob Phenix, PhD, Oct. 28th, 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.164.9.183 (talk) 01:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Nice info!
 * We could incorporate it in the article, but for good form we'd need to link it to a source, not necessarily a peer-rewiewed cite for that, but for instance if you or Ms. Beuster would add this tidbit to an online page about the topic hosted at the Uni or similar? Or if this has been published in the conference proceedings, providing the cite with page number would be enough.
 * Also, how has it been established that it's not two pages lost/missing? Is the text continuing from the end of 27 to the start of 30? And any idea how/why the scribe would chose which numbers to deliberately skip, are 28&29 bad numbers?
 * &mdash; Komusou talk @ 16:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

references serious linkrot
Most references have suffered link-rot. Gnetter (talk) 13:21, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * One example is PAPYRUS EBERS, 1937 translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnetter (talk • contribs) 13:26, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed Gnetter (talk) 13:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Reference 2 is broken( http://books.google.com/?id=LjBxSQAACAAJ&dq=Papyros+Ebers:+Das+hermetische+Buch+%C3%BCber+die+Arzeneimittel+der+alten+%C3%84gypter+in+hieratischer+Schrift+Georg+Ebers ). Ludwig Christian Stern (1875). Ebers G. ed (in German). Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 (1 ed.). Leipzig: W. Englemann. Retrieved 2010-09-18.

It was linked to Google books. Gnetter (talk) 13:37, 11 October 2012 (UTC) Gnetter (talk) 13:38, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

God Xenus
I could not find any reference to any such god. Can someone please clarify this with a good resource? I put citation needed near the Xenus text in article. --buræquete 23:34, 3 January 2019 (UTC)