Newsworthy Events

Welcome back tot he Dittrick Museum Blog! Today, we would like to mention some newsworthy events upcoming in February. Mark your calendars, Clevelandites! FEBRUARY 19 FROM THE TIGRIS TO THE TIBER: A CASE OF BABYLONIAN ‘ASTRO-MEDICINE’ IN PLINY THE ELDER The Departments of Classics and History are sponsoring a talk on ancient "astro-medicine" (free and open to the public) on Wednesday, February 19 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in Mather House 100 Maddalena Rumor, Doctoral Candidate, Freie Universität, Berlin, will present and compare two texts – a puzzling late Babylonian Kalendertext written on a cuneiform tablet in Uruk by a scholar named Iqīšâ (late...

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