“Both my Cleansed Hands”

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
Klaus Wagensonner

Abstract This short contribution edits for the first time a small fragment housed in the Horn Archaeological Museum at St Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. This fragment contains the meagre remains of what once was a letter addressed to the goddess Ištar sent by a woman named Abī-tukultī. Literary letters of the Old Babylonian period are fairly scarce, and the present text is the first known letter to Ištar and hence a welcome addition to the corpus.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 430-449
Author(s):  
Joachim Popek ◽  

The article deals with the question of mobility in the context of the common rights of passage, carriage and cattle drive through properties belonging to estates. Till 1848 Galician peasants and townsmen enjoyed them on the basis of charters or custom law. In the second half of the 19th century rights were abolished or regulated. Archival research proved that in the whole century there were many conflicts regarding common rights, which is the main hypothesis put forward in the present article. The arrangement of the present text is conventionally structured, i.e. historical background, hypothesis and research questions; discussion of the source base, methodology and research tools; the main body, summary and general conclusions. The article originated on the basis of archival sources, mainly from the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv, which were utilised for the very first time. The sources were supplemented by cartographic materials prepared by means of QGIS software.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-191
Author(s):  
Błażej Kmieciak

In 1991 was passed in Poland the Healthcare Institutions Act. In the cited act was for the first time used the phrase of „patient’s rights”. Currently in our country there are several other laws that directly relate to that issue. In recent years, there has also been set up new offices in the field of patients’ rights (Patient Ombudsman, Ombudsman for Psychiatric Patients and specialist for patient’s rights working in hospitals). Discussions concerning rights of the patient most often relate to matters of a formal nature. Specialist literature refers basically to: the issue of consent to treatment, the issue of medical confidentiality, the aspect of the dignity of the patient and the system of protection of patient rights using the services of the health care system. Rarely however – in this context – debates undertake a problem of the importance of interaction between a patient and a doctor. There is also no reflection on the position that physicians and patients occupy in the course of treating. The present text aims to depict the patient’s rights from the perspective of functional reflection. In the first place, it will be presented the context of treatment within which the sick and the doctors as well as nurses play their roles. In particular, it will be shown the commercial face of medical services. Based on the concept of ombudsman will be taken also an attempt to present medical staff as „the first ombudsmen of the rights and interests of the patient.”


Maska ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (198) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Katja Čičigoj

Summary The present text is a chapter from the MAthesis Open Work in Contemporary Theatre Writing: Towards the Eventfulness of the Text by Katja Čičigoj (2013). The thesis examines the play do me twice by the acclaimed theatre practitioner Simona Semenič, which was performed for the first time on 20 December 2009 in Glej Theatre, Ljubljana. This chapter performs a case analysis in the context of a revised theory of the open work, which the author develops in the thesis: by drawing upon Deleuze, Guattari, Lyotard and Massumi, the author develops a post-semiotic aesthetic theory to approach contemporary theatre texts The discussed play is an example of contemporary theatre writing that emerges, on the one hand, out of the reflection on the theatre medium (its eventfulness) and the reflection on writing as a practice, on the other. The text incorporates this reflection not so much in terms of explicit thematisation but primarily at the level of its production-reception: this is a text-event, a text that is emerging (is revised and continually developed) during the performance of this same text, while at the same time it also thematises this emerging and revisioning. Precisely this collapse of the traditional chronological succession and ontological difference between production and reception, between text and event, is the aspect which opens up the discussed text to its thinking in terms of the concept of the open work and, at the same time, also enables a critical reflection on the concept itself.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 66-89
Author(s):  
Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas

The crime of homicide is said to have an aggravating cir- cumstance when it is committed due to the “fact of be- ing a woman.” In Colombia, only until the 4th of March 2015, The Supreme Court of Justice, for the first time, addressed a case in which a penalty with an aggravating circumstance of this nature was imposed, establishing the relevant factors to constitute this type of crime. The present text analyses the crime of femicide within a wider context of violence against women just as the concepts of gender-based violence, violence against women and fi- nally, sexual assault and femicide; these concepts are ana- lyzed with the purpose of showing the different factors involved in this phenomenon. El delito de homicidio tiene una agravante que se configu- ra cuando el delito se comete por “el hecho de ser mujer”. En Colombia, solo hasta el 4 de marzo de 2015 la Corte Suprema de Justicia se ocupó por primera vez de un caso en el cual se daba aplicación a la agravante, y determinó los elementos que son importantes para su configuración. En este texto analizo el concepto de feminicidio dentro de un contexto más amplio de violencia contra la mujer, al igual que los conceptos de violencia de género, violencia contra la mujer y, finalmente, violencia sexual y feminici- dio, todo ello con el propósito de mostrar los diferentes elementos que están alrededor de este fenómeno. 


Iraq ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
M. P. Streck ◽  
N. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  

BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a hand-copy. With this discovery, the existence of a solid 2nd millennium tradition of monolingual Akkadian proverbial sayings is established.


Iraq ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Farouk N. H. Al-Rawi

The Neo- or Late Babylonian tablet presented here adds to the increasing number of ancient Mesopotamian formal inscriptions extant in copies made by first-millennium scribes. Another such tablet from the Sippar library, containing a copy of two building inscriptions reporting the work of Gudea and Šulgi on the temple of Nanše at Sirara, has already been published.The present tablet's existence was announced in Iraq 49 (1987) 249. The inscription copied on to it uses an early monumental script. The text (11. 1–13) is a dedication to the goddess Nanše made by a diviner called Nanna-mansum (or Sîn-iddinam) for the well-being of an Amorite sheikh called Zabaya. This is most probably the fourth king of Larsa, who enjoyed the same name and title and reigned in the mid-twentieth century BC, in the usual chronology. The present text is accordingly catalogued by the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia project under Zabaya of Larsa as E4.2.4.3 (Frayne, Old Babylonian Period, RIME 4, p. 112). Original inscriptions of this king have been found at Larsa and Maškan-šāpir.The colophon (11. 14–18), apparently written over a poorly erased text, is in a conventional late script. The object on which the inscription was found is reported as a bronze “buck” (daššu), presumably a goat-shaped figurine. This was no doubt the object dedicated by Nanna-mansum (or Sîn-iddinam) to Nanše for his royal master many centuries before. Such bronze castings occur elsewhere in the written sources as ornaments on a bed (Nbn 206, 2: da-áš-šá-a-tum).


Author(s):  
Katarzyna Krzak-Weiss

How Emil Zegadłowicz discoursed about typography. Comments on the margin of the Poznań Edition of Gawęda poety z typografem of 1929The present text is based on a book by Emil Zegadłowicz published in 1929 by the poet’s friend, Jan Kuglin. Gawęda poety z typografem [Discourse between a poet and a typographer] was delivered for the first time during the Third Congress of Polish Bibliophiles that took place in Lwów in 1928. Its individual fragments are a point of departure for reflections upon typography at the turn of the twentieth century, especially the beautiful book trend initiated at that time as well as the bibliophile publishing houses and editions that emerged in its wake.


2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-350
Author(s):  
H. Plaisier ◽  
J. A. Bryant ◽  
L. M. Irvine ◽  
A. Mclean ◽  
M. Jones ◽  
...  

Margaret Gatty was a skilled seaweed collector. Her large worldwide collection currently housed at St Andrews University Herbarium and another significant collection (of both seaweeds and marine invertebrates) held at Museums Sheffield are evaluated for the first time. These collections have remained largely un-curated, but assessment and data capture of their holdings is currently under way. Mrs Gatty acquired great skill and expertise as a collector and student of seashore flora and fauna, so much so that a number of taxa were named after her. Her daughter, Horatia, followed her mother but specialised in marine invertebrates, amassing a large collection, the bulk of which is divided between Sheffield and the Natural History Museum, London. An appendix of taxa associated with Mrs Gatty is included.


Author(s):  
J. Chakraborty ◽  
A. P. Sinha Hikim ◽  
J. S. Jhunjhunwala

Although the presence of annulate lamellae was noted in many cell types, including the rat spermatogenic cells, this structure was never reported in the Sertoli cells of any rodent species. The present report is based on a part of our project on the effect of torsion of the spermatic cord to the contralateral testis. This paper describes for the first time, the fine structural details of the annulate lamellae in the Sertoli cells of damaged testis from guinea pigs.One side of the spermatic cord of each of six Hartly strain adult guinea pigs was surgically twisted (540°) under pentobarbital anesthesia (1). Four months after induction of torsion, animals were sacrificed, testes were excised and processed for the light and electron microscopic investigations. In the damaged testis, the majority of seminiferous tubule contained a layer of Sertoli cells with occasional spermatogonia (Fig. 1). Nuclei of these Sertoli cells were highly pleomorphic and contained small chromatinic clumps adjacent to the inner aspect of the nuclear envelope (Fig. 2).


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