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Akkadica, 2023
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N.A.B.U., 2023
108 (89′): The damaged verbal form might be the same as in 109 (94′) which resembles ud-du-⸢ru ? ... more 108 (89′): The damaged verbal form might be the same as in 109 (94′) which resembles ud-du-⸢ru ? ⸣-šú (adāru D stative plural) "(if the ones observing him) are fearful/in dark mood(?)". The apodosis ŠÀ.BI NU DU₁₀.GA might have been explained in the principal commentary on tablet 4 l. 39; see DE ZORZI 2014, 440. 119: Note the restoration by E. Leichty (1970, 72 referring to the OB entry YOS 10, 12). We may note, however, the different apodosis in our entry, which is why the restoration and the reading of KA as KIR₄ "nose" according to the OB sources mentioned above is rather uncertain. Furthermore, the end of the verbal form of the protasis as preserved in our text suggests a plural subject, as for instance ZÚ.MEŠ-šú, maybe connected with the common phenomenon of teething, which usually starts around six to eight months after having been born. Bibliography LABAT, R. 1965, Un calendrier babylonien des travaux, des signes et des mois. Series Iqqur ipus, Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études, IVe section, Sciences historiques et philologiques 321, Paris.
N.A.B.U., 2021
196-85) BM 77046-A Duplicate to SpTU I, no. 76 (Šumma ālu-Omens on Spittle and Spitting)-The Late... more 196-85) BM 77046-A Duplicate to SpTU I, no. 76 (Šumma ālu-Omens on Spittle and Spitting)-The Late Babylonian text BM 77046 (1883,0118,AH.2422), which supposedly originates from Sippar, represents an up to now unidentified duplicate to the passage on spitting and spittle observations, likewise preserved within the Late Babylonian text W. 22307/22 (SpTU I, no. 76) reverse 4′-49′. Mentioned therein along with omens concerning different phenomena while a man is leaving, entering or being on his way, the passages in the Uruk-Ms. have been more generally labelled as "Omina teils vom Typ šumma ālu, teils physiognomisch" within the first edition of W. 22307/22 by H. Hunger (SpTU I, 78). And indeed, newly identified excerpts from the Neo Assyrian period (see below) suggest a particular context within the last part of the extensive divinatory series Šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin. The respective parallels (and the duplicate as in the case of SpTU I, no. 76) are as follows: W. 22307/22 rev. 21′-49′ // BM 77046 obv. 1′-17′, rev. 1-13 K. 2988 obv. 6′-9′ // BM 77046 obv. 3′-6′ K. 8042+ ii 22′-29′ // BM 77046 obv. 8′-13′ 1879,0708.213+ i 7-14, 17 // BM 77046 obv. 8′-13′, rev. 9
Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 37, 31-68, 2021
J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru (Eds.), Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 81–118, 2019
Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 33, 32-34, 2019
Panayotov, S. V. / Vacín, L. "Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic. Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller" Ancient Magic and Divination 14, 462-500 (pre-peer reviewed version), 2018
There are few Assyriologists within the field of Cuneiform Medicine whose ongoing research covers... more There are few Assyriologists within the field of Cuneiform Medicine whose ongoing research covers so broad a range of Mesopotamian scientific texts as does the work of M.J. Geller. His research reaches from bilingual incantations to technical therapeutic and pharmaceutic texts. The jubilarian has added to knowledge in those fields considerably. His oeuvre, apart from the Talmudic and Aramaic material, often penetrated wider areas of scientific research like the History of Science, Wissensgeschichte (History of Knowledge), the History of Medicine as well as the Studies of the Religions of the Ancient Near East. I am pleased to dedicate to my PhD supervisor an edition of several texts from the British Museum which touch upon different areas of Mesopotamian medical or divinatory scholarship. The first text to be discussed here belongs to the field of Cuneiform Medicine. The second section of the present essay is concerned with new fragments and joins of the standard physiognomic omen series Alamdimmû.
Steinert, U. (ed.): Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 9, 313-333, 2018
Steinert, U. (ed.): Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 9, 137-157, 2018
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N.A.B.U., 2020
174 -81) Corrigenda to Schmidtchen, E., Simplicia and Unpublished Fragments of Alamdimmû from the... more 174 -81) Corrigenda to Schmidtchen, E., Simplicia and Unpublished Fragments of Alamdimmû from the British Museum, in: Panayotov, S. V./Vacín, L. (eds.) Mesopotamian Medicin and Magic.
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