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Lamaštu: An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C.

By Walter Farber

Book information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2014
ISBN
1575062585, 9781575062587
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
66 MB (69014549 bytes)
Series
Mesopotamian Civilizations 17
Pages
xiv+472\488
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-06-06 20:29:22
Assyria Babylonia Sumer Ancient Civilizations Hist

Description

Lamaštu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons, playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and magico-medical beliefs and practices of ancient Mesopotamia for nearly two millennia. Yet, she has never been the subject of a scholarly monograph dedicated to the textual and visual evidence for her, her activities, and the measures that ancient magical specialists took to counter her. This volume also falls short of this description, because it covers only one part of the material: it is an edition of the textual record only, which is, however, collected here as completely as seems possible today. Walter Farber, who has studied these materials for decades, presents a comprehensive collection of all of the known texts, the texts of the primary incantations in a "score" format, and transliteration and translation of a number of ancillary texts. This much-awaited volume will fill the void in the literature on this aspect of the life and thought of ancient Mesopotamian peoples regarding the character of this malevolent creature and the means of warding off the threat that she posed.

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