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Observation of lips and nose (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Body parts
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.06 Human/divine/anthropomorphic symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.06.03 Body parts
Physiognomic omens (Alandimmû and Nigdimdimmû)
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.02 Omen interpretation
05.02.06 Physiognomic omens (Alandimmû and Nigdimdimmû)

Keywords
Byzantium
omens
physiognomy

Period
13th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20:
693. He who has thin and mobile lips, with the upper one falling over the lower, is a hunter even as are the lion and large dogs.
694. He who has a thick upper lip, which appears to cover over the lower one, is a man lacking in intelligence, and dense in understanding and is even like the ass.
695. He who has a thick nose-end is a sluggish man and is even like the ox; but he who has a thin nose-end is a man of wrath like the dog.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20

Bibliography

Budge 1897, 179

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Laughable Stories collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus, Maphrian of the East from A.D. 1264 to 1286. The Syriac text edited with an English Translation. London: Luzac and Co 1897.

Amar Annus

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