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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45262| Title: | Christian medicine and late antique surgery : illness and healing in the Maltese islands and Sicily in 4th-5th century A.D. |
| Other Titles: | Interconnections in the Central Mediterranaean : The Maltese Islands and Sicily in History |
| Authors: | Cassia, Margherita |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- Classical period, 218 B.C.-535 A.D. Malta -- History -- Byzantine rule, 535-870 Sicily (Italy) -- Antiquities Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Officina di Studi Medievali |
| Citation: | Cassia , M. (2008). Christian medicine and late antique surgery: illness and healing in the Maltese islands and Sicily in 4th-5th century A.D. In A. Bonanno, & P. Militello (Eds.), Interconnections in the Central Mediterranaean: The Maltese Islands and Sicily in History (pp. 53-67). Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali. |
| Abstract: | A small marble tablet (15.5 × 16.5 cm; thickness: 2.3 cm) held at Malta’s National Archaeological Museum bears the following epitaph: enqade kite Dome- |stiko~ o eum[en]h~ (?) | cristiano~k(ai) ihtr~e | ezhsen eth o~V | aveπa<Ú>ato th [pr(o)] ihV | kal[an]d(wn) Febr(ouariwn) | . “Here lies Domestikos, a good Christian and doctor; he lived for 76 years and found eternal peace on the 18th day before the Kalends of February”. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45262 |
| ISBN: | 8888615806 |
| Appears in Collections: | Interconnections in the Central Mediterranaean: The Maltese Islands and Sicily in History |
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