History 330.086
Spring 2001
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember

This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here chronologically according to the date in which they occurred in class or were written on the class blackboard.

Click on any past class date in this calendar to access the terms for that week.

- - - SPRING SEMESTER, EXPRESS II 2001 - - -
March April
Tue Thur Tue Thur
0 0 midterm 5
13 15 10 12
20 22 17 19
27 29 24 0
March 15:return to page top
  • gaming rituals
  • Athanasius Kircher
  • mummy
  • mummification
  • mummiya
  • palaeopathology
  • philology
  • Wilmhelm Roentgen
  • Sir Armond Ruffer
  • Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)
  • senet game
  • sporting rituals
March 20:return to page top
  • aetiology
  • Archaic Period
  • cippus/cippi (of Horus)
  • Galen
  • Hellenistic Era
  • Herodotus
  • hieratic script
  • medical papyri
  • Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom
  • Old Kingdom
  • Ptolemaic Period
  • Third Intermediate Period
March 22:return to page top
  • apotropaeia, apotropaeic
  • Deir el-Bahari
  • heka, "creative power," " magic"
  • hekau, "practicioner of heka," "magician"
  • law of non-contradiction
  • ma'at
  • molecular anthropology
  • mummification
  • pathogenesis
  • Per-Ankh, "House of Life"
  • priestly temple service
  • rites of initiation
  • sanatoria
March 27:return to page top
  • âaâ
  • aetiology
  • akh
  • annual plague winds
  • apotropaeic knives (magic wands)
  • ba
  • Bentresh Stela
  • envoys of Sakhmet
  • god/goddess (netjer/netjeret)
  • heka
  • Horus
  • incubus
  • Isis
  • ka
  • Kheperu
  • Khonsu the Provider
  • Mafdet
  • male dead/female dead (mwt/mwtt)
  • materia peccans
  • physical aetiology
  • plague season
  • Ra
  • Sakhmet
  • Seth
  • spiritual aetiology
  • wekhedu
March 29:return to page top
  • Aesclapius, son of Apollo
  • Alcmaeon
  • Aristotle
  • Athothis (king)
  • Cnidian medicine
  • Cnidus
  • Cos
  • Deir el-Bahari
  • Galen
  • Herodotus
  • Hippocrates
  • Imhotep (Imouthes)
  • incubation of dreams
  • letters to the dead
  • Manetho
  • medical papyri
  • miasma
  • pepsis
  • perittoma
  • Pythagoras of Croton
  • sepsis
  • Thales of Miletus
  • the four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
  • wekhedu
April 3:return to page top
    Midterm Examination
April 5:return to page top
  • el-Amarna
  • Hesyre
  • kherep-Selket, controller of Selket
  • Per-ankh, House of Life
  • Per-medjat, library
  • sa-hemem, cauterizer(?)
  • Sais
  • sau, amulet-maker, magician
  • swnw, physician
  • Udjahorresnet
  • ut, place of embalming
  • uty, embalmer
  • w'ab-priest of Sakhmet
April 10:return to page top
  • Berlin Medical Papyrus
  • Book of the Heart
  • Book of what Pertains to a Wound
  • Book of the Wandering of Wekhedu
  • Cambyses
  • Carlsberg Papyrus VIII
  • Darius I
  • Ebers Papyrus
  • Fayum medical papyrus (Crocodilopolis)
  • Hearst Papyrus
  • hermetic books (42)
  • London Medical Papyrus
  • medical papyri
  • medical hierarchy
  • ostraca/ostracon
  • Papyrus Chester Beatty VI
  • Papyrus Chester Beatty X
  • Ramesseum papyri
  • recto and verso
  • St. Clement of Alexandria
April 12:return to page top
  • Edwin Smith Papyrus
  • galena (mineral of lead ore)
  • gloss (textual)
  • James H. Breasted
  • khol
  • palpating, palpation
  • papyrus

April 17:return to page top
  • adhesive plasters
  • amputation
  • castration
  • circumcision
  • Ebers Papyrus
  • eunuch
  • female circumcision
  • Herodotus
  • initiation, rites of passage
  • "knife treatment"
  • Potiphar (Biblical)
  • roundel (of bone)
  • Strabo
  • surgery
  • surgical procedures: excision
  • surgical procedures: cauterization
  • surgical procedures: amputation
  • surgical procedures: lancing
  • trepanation, trephination

April 19:return to page top
  • Amenhotep son of Hapu (Amenothes)
  • Amun who Hears Petitions
  • Bes
  • cippus/cippi
  • des-(flint) knife
  • gynaecology and obstetrics
  • Hermopolis Law Code
  • iatrikon, "physicians' tax"
  • Imhotep (Imouthes)
  • incubation of dreams
  • Kom Ombo temple instruments
  • "loving son" (a "son who loves")
  • Peseshet
  • sanatoria
  • self-dedication contracts (demotic)
  • surgical instruments
  • Taweret
  • temple of Sahure at Abu Sir
  • temple of Kom Ombo
  • temple/sanatorium of Deir el-Bahari
  • temple/sanatorium of Imhotep at Sakkara (the Asclepion)
  • trephine
  • udjat-eye

April 24:return to page top
  • abortion
  • birth prognoses (fertility tests)
  • birthing bricks/stool
  • catamenial (menstrual) blood
  • "causing the breasts to go down"
  • closing ("contracting") of the uterus
  • Deir el-Medina
  • Ebers Papyrus
  • el-Lahun (Kahun) Papyrus
  • fumigation
  • gesges/gesu, "miscarriage" (lit. "overflowing")
  • homeopathy (homeopathic remedies)
  • "journeying" of the uterus
  • lochia
  • maternity (birthing) bowers
  • menorrhagia
  • "milk of a woman who has just given birth to a baby boy"
  • opening ("loosening") of the uterus
  • Papyrus Carlsberg VIII
  • Papyrus Westcar
  • pessary
  • Soranus of Ephesus
  • Turin Indictment Papyrus (pTurin 1887)
  • uterine cancer
  • veseco-vaginal fistula