1390–1352 B.C.).Ī limestone statue of Yuny (early Dynasty 19, ca. (The physicians of ancient Egypt belonged to her priesthood.) The seven-foot-tall statues originally stood with some six hundred similar statues in the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III (Dynasty 18, ca. Furthermore, to protect themselves from perils, both seen and unseen, they incorporated powerful talismans in their art.įlanking the entrance to the exhibition are two of the best-preserved colossal statues of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of healing-her name means "the powerful one"-who was also the goddess of war, violent storms, and pestilence.
As a result, the Egyptians amassed a wealth of knowledge about the treatment of injuries and disease.
In addition to the dangerous animals with which they came into regular contact-including lions, hippopotami, crocodiles, snakes, and scorpions-they were subject to diseases whose invisible causes were not understood. Because of his attachment with the god Ptah during his work at Ptah's temple, stories were spread that said that Ptah was his father.Įven when the Greeks took over Egypt in 331 B.C.E., he was identified with another deified man called Asclepius, and the Greeks continued to honor and build temples for him.The ancient Egyptians inhabited a perilous land. Scribes would offer a couple drops of water as a sacrifice to him before starting to write. As a god, Imhotep was also worshiped by scribes. People with injuries would sleep near his temple hoping to be healed. Small temples were built in honor of him. Imhotep became the god of medicine and healing. ( July 2010)īecoming a god Īround 100 years after his death, Imhotep was deified (made into a god). You can help Wikipedia by finding good sources, and adding them. Treatment: Thou shouldst bind it with fresh meat the first day (and) treat afterwards with grease, honey (and) lint every day until he recovers wound in the head” “Examination: If thou examinest a man having a wound in his head, while his wound does not have two lips, penetrating to the bone of his skull, (but) not having a gash, thou shouldst palpate his wound (or, thou shouldst lay thy hand upon it) shouldst thou find his skull uninjured, not having a perforation a split, or a smash in it. Here’s an example for treatment of a head injury: The papyrus lists 48 injuries of which 27 are head trauma, and six are spine trauma. He is thought to have written the Edwin Smith papyrus.
Imhotep’s best-known writings were medical scrolls. There were also a couple of small rooms above the burial chambers with items for the afterlife. An average mastaba had four walls, a flat top and an underground burial chamber, reached by a vertical shaft or stairwell.The step pyramid was actually just a number of mastabas placed one on top of the other, each one smaller than the previous one. The term mastaba comes from the word meaning bench, because they look like the benches most Egyptians placed outside their door. Before the step pyramid, pharaohs were buried in flat topped buildings called mastabas. As an architect, Imhotep was most famous because he was the designer of the step pyramid at Sakkara.
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