(together with Bert Kouwenberg) A "New" Old Assyrian Incantation (original) (raw)

The Old Assyrian Incantation Tablet KT 91/K 502

Journal Ex Oriente Lux 47, 2018

The Old Assyrian (henceforth: OA) tablet Kt 91/k 502 contains two incantations, the first of which concerns a diqārum, a kind of a pot or jar, and the second a libbum 'heart' or 'belly' (see Section 5). Their combination on a single tablet suggests that they are related in contents, but they both raise serious problems of interpretation, and the text itself offers very few clues about their function. It is mainly on the basis of Babylonian parallels that we can surmise that they have a medical purpose. 1

Three Middle Assyrian Tablets in the British Museum

Iraq, 1988

Tablets of the Middle Assyrian period are rare in the collections of the British Museum, principally because the German excavations at Assur, from which most come, were plainly more carefully controlled than many early excavations. Thus it is a pleasure to place this article, which presents three Middle Assyrian tablets, in a volume celebrating Lady Mallowan and Prof. D. J. Wiseman, to both of whom Assyriology is grateful for the edition of many documents from a younger Assyrian capital, Nimrud. The three pieces published here are a fragment of edicts, a document listing personnel, and a collection of omens.*