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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...