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Egyptian · medical treatise · c. 1600 BCE copy of a text composed in the Old Kingdom

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus

Anonymous — Egyptian

Complete work · 17 parts · 2 complete translations

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MouseiaMusean translationMouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Egyptian, line for line, covering the whole recto (Cases 1–48, columns 1–17) with its wound cases from the head to the spine, working from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae transcription (hieroglyphs, transliteration and lemma glosses, with the TLA editors’ German sentence renderings as a comprehension aid; ORAEC release of the TLA corpus, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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MouseiaPlain English translationMouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from the same Egyptian text, line for line, covering the whole recto (Cases 1–48, columns 1–17) with its wound cases from the head to the spine.
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