Franz Köchers standard work on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was designed to
provide copies of the texts with translation and commentary, had remained unfinished at his …

This chapter investigates metaphors and concepts associated with the female reproductive
body in gynecological texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamia, focusing on …

This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the
lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line …

The spell formula called the Marduk–Ea incantation from ancient Mesopotamia is unique in
history of medicine due to its documented use of almost 3000 years. The incantation was …

In the process of searching for any unpublished tablets that might qualify for inclusion in his
projected edition of the Egalkura texts it was not long before the first author of this Festgabe …

Traditional accounts of Babylonian medicine see the two disciplines involved in healing in
ancient Mesopotamia, viz. āšipūtu “exorcism or incantation-and-ritual-driven healing” and …

This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of
divine personhood as they are preserved in textual corpora and material culture from Israel …

Amuletswereastapleof thehealingcraftinancientMesopotamia. Theireffectiveness depended
on several interwoven factors, such as the material used to make the amulet, the design …

In this paper, different issues of dealing with unprovenanced antiquities are discussed from
the Assyriologist's point of view. How should one deal with unprovenanced artefacts …

The ritual and incantation series Šurpu (“Burning”), at over a thousand lines, is the longest
and most detailed Mesopotamian ritual to deal with the assuagement of divine displeasure …