PROFILE

Troels Pank Arbøll, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in assyriology at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on microhistorical approaches to ancient Mesopotamian medicine in order to gain a deeper understanding of ancient medical practices. He is also interested in ancient conceptions of illness; the reality behind medical ingredients, contagion, and epidemics; as well as the iconography of demons and animals. He is currently preparing an edition of a number of mainly unpublished cuneiform manuscripts with magical and medical content excavated in Hama (Syria) by a Danish expedition from 1931–1938.