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The Ebers Papyrus is a unicum and the main source of knowledge about the old Egyptian medicine.<p><strong>Name:</strong> The scroll is named after its publisher, the Leipzig explorer and Egyptologist Georg Ebers (1837-1898).</p><p><strong>Acquisition:</strong> Georg Ebers purchased the papyrus scroll in Thebes (Upper Egypt) in the winter of 1872/73.</p><p><strong>Storage:</strong> The Ebers Papyrus is the property of the university library of Leipzig since 1873.</p><p><strong>Measurements:</strong> The scroll measures 18,63 m/20,37 yards in length and 0,30 m/11,81 inches in height.</p><p><strong>Age:</strong> The scroll originates in the last quarter of the 16th century BC.</p><p><strong>Origin:</strong> It is presumed that the Ebers Papyrus was found in a grave near Thebes.</p><p><strong>Script/language:</strong> The text is written in hieratic script, from right to left in black ink; red is used for headings and indications of measurements.</p><p><strong>Material and form:</strong> The Ebers Papyrus is a scroll consisting of 48 single papyrus sheets glued together. When discovered, the scroll was complete. For better conservation it was later cut into 29 pieces. Since the Second World War a few columns have been lost or damaged. In the presentation these columns are replaced by the facsimile produced by Georg Ebers in 1875.</p><p><strong>Content and structure:</strong> The Ebers Papyrus is a brief textbook of 110 columns about Ancient Egyptian medicine. Columns 103-110 were written on the backside of columns 102-94. On the back of column I there is a famous calendar which includes the date of the Sotis rising in the 9th year of the reign of Amenophis I (1525-1504 BC). The Ebers Papyrus contains 879 individual texts, describing about 80 different illnesses and their treatments. </p><p>More information in German and English under http://www.foyer-albertina.de <br /> <br /> &copy; Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016</p></div>", "logo": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/ubl-logo.png", "related": [ "https://digital.ub.uni-leipzig.de/object/viewid/0000000001", "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/manifest.json" ], "label": "Papyrus Ebers", "attribution": "Leipzig University Library", "sequences": [ { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/sequence/1", "@type": "sc:Sequence", "canvases": [ { "label": "Back to the left (calendar)", "@type": "sc:Canvas", "width": 5198, "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/1", "height": 2827, "images": [ { "@type": "oa:Annotation", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/image/1", "motivation": "sc:painting", "resource": { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/papyrusebers-toc.jpx", "@type": "dctypes:Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "width": 5198, "height": 2827, "label": "Papyrus Ebers", "service": { "@context": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/iiif/j2k/0000/0000/0000000001/papyrusebers-toc.jpx", "profile": "http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/conformance.html#level1" } }, "on": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/1" } ] }, { "label": "Front of the scroll", "@type": "sc:Canvas", "width": 145819, "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/2", "height": 2827, "images": [ { "@type": "oa:Annotation", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/image/2", "motivation": "sc:painting", "resource": { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/papyrusebers.jpx", "@type": "dctypes:Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "width": 145819, "height": 2827, "label": "Papyrus Ebers", "service": { "@context": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/iiif/j2k/0000/0000/0000000001/papyrusebers.jpx", "profile": "http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/conformance.html#level1" } }, "on": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/2" } ], "otherContent": [ { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/translation-de.json", "@type": "sc:AnnotationList" } ] }, { "label": "Back to the right", "@type": "sc:Canvas", "width": 22691, "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/3", "height": 2827, "images": [ { "@type": "oa:Annotation", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/image/3", "motivation": "sc:painting", "resource": { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/papyrusebers-rear.jpx", "@type": "dctypes:Image", "format": "image/jpeg", "width": 22691, "height": 2827, "label": "Papyrus Ebers", "service": { "@context": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json", "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/iiif/j2k/0000/0000/0000000001/papyrusebers-rear.jpx", "profile": "http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/conformance.html#level1" } }, "on": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/3" } ], "otherContent": [ { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/translation-rear-en.json", "@type": "sc:AnnotationList" } ] } ] } ], "structures": [ { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/range/1", "@type": "sc:Range", "label": "Front", "canvases": [ "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/1" ] }, { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/range/2", "@type": "sc:Range", "label": "Back", "canvases": [ "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/2" ] }, { "@id": "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/range/3", "@type": "sc:Range", "label": "Calendar", "canvases": [ "https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/0000000001/canvas/3" ] } ] }