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The purpose of this article is to publish a third version of the ancient Babylonian myth of the Twenty-one “Poultices”, and to comment on the mythological content of all three, while leaving details of the strictly medical aspects to others. The two hitherto known versions of th…
The Sultantepe Tablets: IX. The Birdcall Text
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This text is one of a number of first millennium compilations that reflect a certain philosophical and religious outlook of those times. The compilers sought to find evidence of current theology in the physical universe, which, viewed dispassionately, had only little relevant to…
The Sultantepe Tablets (continued)VIII. Shalmaneser In Ararat
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Among the Sultantepe tablets one attracts attention by its unexpectedness. It is, to quote O. R. Gurney's description,an account of the campaign of Shalmaneser III against Urartu [the Biblical Ararat], preceded by a speech in which reference is made to previous campaigns against…
The discovery of new tablets of Ludlul bêl nêmeqi, which was announced in Anatolian Studies, II, p. 28, comes as a very welcome supplement to the extant Akkadian Wisdom literature, a field which has been singularly barren in new finds for several decades now, as a recent writer …