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Contending with illness in ancient Egypt: A textual and osteological study of health care at Deir el-Medina
Anne Austin · 2014
Reading ancient testimony
Ask who produced the document, for whom, and for what purpose. Distinguish its ancient creation from its modern edition or translation. Survival and excavation shape what can be read today.
Use the linked edition and reliability notes for the author, audience, transmission and limits of this particular source. Missing information is not an assurance of neutrality.
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- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides textual and osteological evidence · Chapters 4–9 and conclusions
Supports health stresses and care networks.
- event Documented health care and sick-leave networks at Deir el-MedinaEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides textual and osteological evidence · Chapters 4–9 and conclusions
Supports health stresses and care networks.
- relationship Documented health care and sick-leave networks at Deir el-Medina — occurred at or involved — Deir el-MedinaEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides textual and osteological evidence · Chapters 4–9 and conclusions
Supports health stresses and care networks.
- date assertion Documented health care and sick-leave networks at Deir el-Medina — date assertionEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides textual and osteological evidence · Chapters 4–9 and conclusions
Supports health stresses and care networks.
- relationship Deir el-Medina community — involved or associated with — Documented health care and sick-leave networks at Deir el-MedinaEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides textual and osteological evidence · Chapters 4–9 and conclusions
Supports health stresses and care networks.
- claim Evidence for farmers, fishers, pastoralists, craftspeople, women, dependent people and households is highly uneven across periods and regions.Evidence confidence: near certainsupports · supports claim · Health and households at Deir el-Medina
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
- claim Ancient Egyptian population totals and regional demographic changes remain highly uncertain.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports claim · Deir el-Medina population and health case
Supports the claim and its qualifications.