Old Babylonian Extispicy
Author: Ulla Jeyes
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 262
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Author: Ulla Jeyes
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leda Ciraolo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9004497366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.
Author: Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9004429395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.
Author: Markham J. Geller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1119062543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses
Author: Ulla Susanne Koch
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9788772896205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Babylonians were famous even in their own time for their expertise in divination, and Koch-Westenholz suggests the lack of modern scholarship from the extensive written record is because the texts are dry, monotonous, and difficult to access and because divination is thought to be simple superstition not worth serious study. She makes a beginning on the accessibility problem by presenting three texts on interpreting sheep livers as the first of a projected complete series on the divinatory texts from the world's oldest extant general library. The edition is based on a catalogue, compiled by Ulla Jeyes as part of what was to be a collaboration on the project before Jeyes' untimely death, of the collections in the British Museum. The original inscriptions are followed by transcription and English translation. Tablets are illustrated in 48 photographic plates. Livers not included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Eran Cohen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1575066807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of letters, law collections, and omens. All of the conditional patterns are provided with a syntactic characterization, so that each conditional sequence is differentiated from all other potential sequences. The volume includes detailed discussion about the values of various verbal and other predicative forms in the conditional structures occurring in the corpus, the differences between superficially similar conditional patterns, and the functions of the various conditional patterns. Many traditionally difficult points are treated and given suitable solutions. The concluding sections of each chapter include linguistic glosses and more general discussions that provide linguistic typologists a window onto the conditional system of Old Babylonian.
Author: A. R. George
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934309476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransliteration, translation, and commentary of new Mesopotamian divination prayers, extispicy texts, omen lists, and divinatory models. These texts extend over two millennia and come from many sites, including a previously unknown city.
Author: Tzvi Abusch
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9004496297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, edited by Tzvi Zbusch and Karel van der Toorn, contains the papers delivered at the first international conference on Mesopotamian magic held under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in June 1995. It is the first collective volume dedicated to the study of this topic. It aims at serving as a bench-mark and provides analytic and innovative but also sythetic and programmatic essays. Magical texts, forms, and traditions from the Mesopotamian cultural worlds of the third millennium BCE through the first millennium CE, in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well as in art, are examined.
Author: Ulla Susanne Koch
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9788772892870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is intended to serve as a general introduction to Mesopotamian astrology, both its outward phenomena and its inner structure.
Author: Albrecht Götze
Publisher: Ams PressInc
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780404602659
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