Corpus Of Mesopotamian Anti Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries And Indices
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Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Glossaries and Indices
Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World
Author: Karen Sonik
language: en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date: 2021-08-13
Art/ifacts and ArtWorks : De-Colonizing the Study and Museum Display of Ancient and Non-Western Things / Karen Sonik -- Beyond Representation : The Role of Affect in Sumerian Lamenting / Paul Delnero -- Seeing and Knowing: Cultural Concepts and the Deictic Power of the Image in Mesopotamia / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- The Context(ualization) of Art in Non-Literate Societies : Images and Animal Bronzes in the Armenian Middle Bronze Age / Karen S. Rubinson -- To Be or Not to Be (Divine) : The Achaemenid King and Essential Ambiguity in Image, Text, and Historical Context / Matthew W. Waters -- Glyptic Images as Reflecting Social Order : Changes in Seal Iconographies from Egalitarian to Early Centralized Societies in Greater Mesopotamia / Marcella Frangipane -- Sealing Practices at Tal-e Bakun A : Revisiting Concepts of Social Organization and Economic Control / Barbara Helwing -- Ephemeral Artifacts : Warlock and Witch Figurines in Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals / Greta Van Buylaere -- What Lay Beneath : Queen Puabi's Garments and Her Passage to the Underworld / Rita Wright -- Assyrian Spaces : Surface and Wall as Constitutive Features in Neo-Assyrian Narrative Reliefs / Marian H. Feldman -- The Assyrian Propaganda Machine in Text and Image : The Case of Sennacherib at Tyre in 701 BCE / Joshua Jeffers -- The News from the East : Assyrian Archaeology, International Politics, and the British Press in the Victorian Age / David Kertai -- Assyrian Style and Victorian Materiality : Mesopotamia in British Souvenirs, Political Caricatures, Theatrical Productions, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace / Kevin M. McGeough.
The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
The volume The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient texts, discusses the concept of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and shows how emotions are described in the ancient texts. In the section dedicated to Ancient Egypt, scholars discuss emotions such as fear, depression, anger, feelings of pain, envy, jealousy and greed, with evidence from different text genres, as well as emotions from the Late Ramesside Letters and royal inscriptions. In the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia, scholars present a wide range of perspectives on Sumerian and Akkadian literary and archival texts that treat emotions in different periods.