Warm hoopoe's blood and cardamom: a Coptic medical text

Cromwell, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0228-1371 (2017) Warm hoopoe's blood and cardamom: a Coptic medical text. Egyptian Archaeology, 51. pp. 10-13. ISSN 0962-2837

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Abstract

Jennifer Cromwell explores a Coptic papyrus, tracing the significance of its prescribed key ingredients – cardamom and the blood of the kukapat (upupa epops), the hoopoe – in the Egyptian pharmacopoeia and wider cultural imagination.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	No
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2023 15:21
Publisher:	Egypt Exploration Society
Additional Information:	This article is reproduced courtesy of The Egypt Exploration Society. © The Egypt Exploration Society
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities Research Centres > History Research Centre
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/632293
ISSN	0962-2837

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