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27. EPHESUS

chapter 27

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Three different votive offerings make of clay. The first is a pair of hands, the second the inner organs in a leaf shape, and the third a single foot up to the ankle.

A rectangular gravestone with a carved relief of a seated man dressed in Greek-style clothing examining a young boy who stands next to him. On the ground is a cupping vessel and beneath the relief is text carved in Greek.

Tombstone of an Athenian doctor called Jason, from the second century ad.

A stone carving showing a woman in labour lying on a bed with her arms above her head. Around her three women stand, the woman on the left holds the newborn baby.

This relief shows a birthing scene. Three women attend the mother; one is holding the newborn.

A metal vessel with an open top and curved bottom.

A cupping vessel made of bronze.

A photograph from above showing remains of a roman theatre and two big straight roads in a hilly, green landscape.

Part of the site of Ephesus as it looks now.

A stone relief showing a wounded man sitting on a stool with a spear in his abdomen. Another man is leaning over and extracting a spear using a knife in his right hand.

This relief from Herculaneum shows a surgeon extracting a spear from a wounded soldier. Both men are nude, which indicates that the scene is from mythology.

A sheet of metal curved round and joined in the shape of the lower part of a leg.

This artificial leg is made of bronze. Originally it was fitted to a wooden core.

Many medical instruments and tools lain out on a white background. Most are made of metal. Some have hooked or sharp ends, others are types of tweezer or plyer.

A collection of surgical instruments, including forceps for crushing the uvula (bottom left). The doctor crushed the uvula with forceps before cutting it off, in order to prevent haemorrhaging. The jaws of the forceps have fine teeth.

A rectangular stone marker on which is carved a woman with a lon cloak standing. Above her head the letters MEDICA are visible.

A grave marker for a female doctor, from Gaul.

An old piece of parchment on which text is hand-written in Arabic around a hand-drawn illustration of a plant with long stems and flowers and long roots.

This sheet from a thirteenth-century manuscript has an Arabic translation of Dioscorides’ ‘De Materia Medica’.

A stylized stone portrait of a man with wide eyes and curls on hair on his forehead.

A marble portrait of Emperor Constantine.

An intricate mosaic which shows ten men standing facing forward. Three on the left are in full armour withe spears and a shield and the other men are wearing long white robes. The background is made of gold.

The Byzantine emperor Justinian (ad 527–565) and his court.

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Autograded translations

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 27, Ex. 1 (27.1)

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 27, Ex. 2 (27.2)

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 27, Ex. 3 (27.3)

Sorting

Sorting 27.1:
Indicative or subjunctive?

Sorting 27.2:
What gender (ipse)?

Sorting 27.3:
Which declension (3rd, 4th, or 5th)?

Sorting 27.4:
What case of participle?

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