-
specifically from the liver, a
practice also
known by the Gr**** term
hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy). The
Roman concept is
directly derived from Etruscan...
- the
Orientalizing period of
archaic Gr**** culture.
Plato notes that
hepatoscopy held
greater prestige than
augury by
means of birds. One of the most...
-
Relief of a
woman holding a
liver for
hepatoscopy,
possibly a
depiction of
Diotima of Mantineia....
- to know the ****ure by this means.
Existing sources for
knowledge of
hepatoscopy are clay
models of
divined livers.
Hepatoscopic practice and
belief began...
-
several methods—e.g.,
liver divination, lecanomancy, and libanomancy.
Hepatoscopy—observing
irregularities and
abnormalities of the
entrails of a sacrificial...
- Collins,
Derek (2008). "Mapping the Entrails: The
Practice of Gr****
Hepatoscopy". The
American Journal of Philology. 129 (3): 319–345. ISSN 0002-9475...
- hakata: by
bones or dice haru****y/haru****ation /həˈrʌspɪsi/ → see
hepatoscopy (Latin haru-, 'entrails' + specere, 'to look at') hematomancy/haematomancy...
- underworld. Divinations: Apantomancy:
seeing animals Cleromancy:
drawing lots
Hepatoscopy:
observing the
liver of an
animal Nephomancy: cloud-watching Ornithomancy:...
- (hēpatikós) heparin, hepatic, hepatitis, hepatocyte, hepatology, hepatomancy,
hepatoscopy, hepatotoxic, hepatotoxin,
hepatotropic hept-
seven Gr**** ἑπτά (heptá)...
-
large eyes. Additionally, the
entrails of
sacrificial animals used in
hepatoscopy could be
compared to Humbaba’s face, and a
depiction of him representing...
