Complex sentence: Unlike every other medical document from Egypt during this period, these medical ostraca were not written solely as a professional resource to be known and used by doctors; rather, these ostraca grant a unique view of the medical perceptions of an entire cross-section of Egyptian society.
Split into simpler sentences: Unlike every other medical document from Egypt in this period, these medical ostraca were not written solely as a professional resource, to be known and used by doctors. Rather, these ostraca grant a view of the medical perceptions of an entire cross-section of Egyptian society.