Old Babylonian Incantation Catalogue [Sticky]
Dec 26, 2016 6:05:16 GMT -5
Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Dec 26, 2016 6:05:16 GMT -5
enenuru:
I have put together an Old Babylonian Incantation corpus recently as I did a study of the occurrence of household terminology in these texts. This was a term paper for a class on the House and Urbanity in Mesopotamia (to be uploaded in its entirely, shortly). For this study I read through the entire OB incantation corpus (minus a handful I could not track down), plus a large portion of the Udug-hul material. I was aware of some 167 OB Sumerian incantations, 6 OB Biligual incantations and some 146 OB Akkadian incantations, totally 319 texts. In the Catalogue linked below, Section A is the Sumerian, B the Biligual and C the Akkadian. The information in my catalogue relies heavily on that published by G. Cunningham 1997 (Deliver Me from Evil: Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 B.C, StPohl 17). Some differences: I do not list those incantations which were unpublished i.e. not available in translations, while Cunningham does; I have updated the list with incantations published since 1997, most importantly, some 54 incantation published in CUSAS 32 (A. R. George 2016: Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection). Please note that for the Akkadian incantation section (section C) Akkadian incantations are usually included with their SEAL number. You can go to the Leipzig SEAL project and select the seal by SEAL number option, and pull up the text to read it online.