Elyze Zomer
Assyriologist. Received her PhD in 2017 from Leipzig University and the Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in 2024 from Philipps-University Marburg. The following mononographs have appeared: Corpus of Middle Babylonian and Middle Assyrian Incantations (2018); Middle Babylonian Literary Texts from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena (2019), Akkadian Magic Literature. Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus – Context – Praxis (with Nathan Wasserman) (2022).
Oneirocritica Mesopotamica. A Critical Study of the Series Zaqīqu II–IX and Other Dream Omens in Context of Mesopotamian Dream Interpretation has been submitted as Habilitationsschrift at the Philipps-University Marburg (2023) and is currently in preparation for publication.
Current Projects:
- Sumerian Magic Literature from the Old Babylonian Period
- Database of Dream Images in Antiquity
- Human-Object Relations in the Ancient Near East. The Corpus of Kultmittelbeschwörungen.
Phone: +49 7071 29-72193
Address: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institut für die Kulturen des Alten Orients
Altorientalische Philologie
Schloss Hohentübingen
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen
Oneirocritica Mesopotamica. A Critical Study of the Series Zaqīqu II–IX and Other Dream Omens in Context of Mesopotamian Dream Interpretation has been submitted as Habilitationsschrift at the Philipps-University Marburg (2023) and is currently in preparation for publication.
Current Projects:
- Sumerian Magic Literature from the Old Babylonian Period
- Database of Dream Images in Antiquity
- Human-Object Relations in the Ancient Near East. The Corpus of Kultmittelbeschwörungen.
Phone: +49 7071 29-72193
Address: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institut für die Kulturen des Alten Orients
Altorientalische Philologie
Schloss Hohentübingen
Burgsteige 11
72070 Tübingen
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All texts are of special interest; The Epic of Gulkišar is a Middle Babylonian copy narrating the heroic deeds of its eponymous Sealand I king against Samsuditana, the last king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara portrays the otherwise poorly known deity Pa(p)nigara, the Ceremony in the Ekur tells us of an hitherto unknown ceremony carried out at the Ekur temple in Nippur, and the Games Text is unique in the fact that it enumerates a great variety of children’s games set in daily life Babylon.
The circulation of magical texts during the Late Bronze Age is investigated by outlining the corpus itself: its thematic grouping of incantations, division of unilingual and bilingual texts, local scribal traditions and their influences. With respect to the question of whether the standardization of incantations took place in Mesopotamia during the Second Millennium, an extensive chapter provides a comparative analysis of the incantation corpora of the Third and Second Millennium against the standardized ritual series of the First Millennium. Fifty cuneiform texts have been edited and translated, accompanied by a thorough philological commentary.
Edited Books by Elyze Zomer
Habilitation by Elyze Zomer
Papers by Elyze Zomer
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Lviv Historical Museum (Львівський історичний музей) in Ukraine. For a PDF of the article, please send an email to one of the authors.
in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev. Nos. 1–2 originate from the city of Ĝirsu and were documented by the
Russian scholar Turaev at the beginning of the 20th century, while nos. 3–5 were previously unknown and come from the
ancient site of Umma. All tablets are presented here together, with a short introduction, translation, edition, and copy.
L’article suivant présente une petite collection de cinq tablettes administratives d’Ur III qui sont maintenant conservées à
l’Institut des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale Vernadsky d’Ukraine à Kiev. Les numéros 1-2 proviennent de la ville
de Ĝirsu et ont été documentés par le savant russe Turaev au début du 20e siècle, tandis que les numéros 3-5 étaient auparavant
inconnus et proviennent du site antique d’Umma. Toutes les tablettes sont présentées ici ensemble, avec une courte
introduction, une traduction, une édition et une copie.
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All texts are of special interest; The Epic of Gulkišar is a Middle Babylonian copy narrating the heroic deeds of its eponymous Sealand I king against Samsuditana, the last king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, the Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara portrays the otherwise poorly known deity Pa(p)nigara, the Ceremony in the Ekur tells us of an hitherto unknown ceremony carried out at the Ekur temple in Nippur, and the Games Text is unique in the fact that it enumerates a great variety of children’s games set in daily life Babylon.
The circulation of magical texts during the Late Bronze Age is investigated by outlining the corpus itself: its thematic grouping of incantations, division of unilingual and bilingual texts, local scribal traditions and their influences. With respect to the question of whether the standardization of incantations took place in Mesopotamia during the Second Millennium, an extensive chapter provides a comparative analysis of the incantation corpora of the Third and Second Millennium against the standardized ritual series of the First Millennium. Fifty cuneiform texts have been edited and translated, accompanied by a thorough philological commentary.
For a PDF of the article, please send an email to [email protected]
Lviv Historical Museum (Львівський історичний музей) in Ukraine. For a PDF of the article, please send an email to one of the authors.
in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev. Nos. 1–2 originate from the city of Ĝirsu and were documented by the
Russian scholar Turaev at the beginning of the 20th century, while nos. 3–5 were previously unknown and come from the
ancient site of Umma. All tablets are presented here together, with a short introduction, translation, edition, and copy.
L’article suivant présente une petite collection de cinq tablettes administratives d’Ur III qui sont maintenant conservées à
l’Institut des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale Vernadsky d’Ukraine à Kiev. Les numéros 1-2 proviennent de la ville
de Ĝirsu et ont été documentés par le savant russe Turaev au début du 20e siècle, tandis que les numéros 3-5 étaient auparavant
inconnus et proviennent du site antique d’Umma. Toutes les tablettes sont présentées ici ensemble, avec une courte
introduction, une traduction, une édition et une copie.
OPEN-ACCESS @DeGruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110743005-004/html
Cet article concerne la tablette babylonienne tardive BM 38553, qui contient une incantation similaire à EN₂ tattapḫa dŠamaš ina šadî erēni, connue par le compendium du rituel du rêve assyrien (ADRC), mais qui présente des différences et des variations significatives. Il s’agit d’une incantation dite de la motte de terre, qui, lorsqu’elle était récitée, transférait le mal du rêve au substitut préparé rituellement, c’est-à-dire la motte de terre (kurbannu). Une première édition de BM 38553 est proposée, ainsi qu’une discussion sur la relation jusqu’ici ignorée entre les incantations de rêve et les présages de rêve principalement connus par la série Zaqīqu.
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In the last years of the Late Old Babylonian period the heartland of the First Dynasty of Babylon was under pressure from multiple hostile entities, e.g. Ḫittites, Kassites and Hurrians in the north and the First Sealand Dynasty in the south. Traditionally, it is assumed that the Kassites took over the power vacuum and took control over Babylon directly after the ‘Fall of Babylon’. However, recent studies on chronology and new published archives from this period have proven that the situation was more complicated. This paper will contribute to this discussion with an unpublished Akkadian literary text (HS 1885+) from the Hilprecht-Sammlung in Jena. In this epic Samsu-ditāna, the last king of the First Dynasty of Babylon is vividly antagonized by a named king of a rival dynasty. Hence, a new synchronism is offered and discussed. In order to fully comprehend the historical implications of HS 1885+ , the political landscape in Babylonia before and after the ‘Fall of Babylon’ will be portrait from three different perspectives, i.e. (I) the First Dynasty of Babylon (II) Kassites and (III) First Sealand Dynasty, hopefully shedding some new light on the so-called ‘Dark Age’ of the second millennium B.C.
Elyze Zomer (Universität Leipzig)
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