Unpublished Omen Reports Texts From the Old Babylonian Period
Keywords:
omen, Liver, religion, priests, ritualAbstract
Publication and edition of two tablets from the library in the Ebabbar Temple of Sippar, a manuscripts represent a Babylonian extispicy reports for the god marduk.
The texts of this article belong to the texts discovered during the eighth excavation campaign of Baghdad University at Sippar in the twenty-fourth excavation season .
As it was among the texts discovered in Room No. 1 and it belongs to the Old Babylonian Period, especially from the time of the King Ammi Saduqa (reigned 1646-1626 BC ) .dated to the years .[i]
[i] - For a detailed account of this excavation see:
- Fadhil and Z. R. Al-Samarraee., «Excavation in Sippar (Tell Abu Habbah) - preliminary report on the excavation results of the 24th campaign 2002», BaM 36 (2005), pp. 157-224.
See also
- Fadhil and Z. R. Al-Samarraee., «The results of the 24th Excavation campaign in the city of Sippar », Sumer 52 (2002/03), pp. 294-357, (in Arabic).
References
- For a detailed account of this excavation see:
A. Fadhil and Z. R. Al-Samarraee., «Excavation in Sippar (Tell Abu Habbah) - preliminary report on the excavation results of the 24th campaign 2002», BaM 36 (2005), pp. 157-224.
See also
A. Fadhil and Z. R. Al-Samarraee., «The results of the 24th Excavation campaign in the city of Sippar », Sumer 52 (2002/03), pp. 294-357, (in Arabic).
- Oppenheim, A. L,. “ A Babylonian diviner's manual” . Journal of Near Eastern Studies, JNES , (1974) . ,33:197-220,. l.46
- Oppenheim , A.L. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , Gluchstadt (1956ff). CAD ,. A.2, p.431:a
- George, A. R., Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection , Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, (CUSAS) , Vol.18 , (Bethesda, 2018.) ,p.16 .
- Maul, S. M., ZukunJtsbewaltigung. Eine Untersuchung altorientalischen Denkens anhand der babylonisch-assyrischen Loserituale (Namburbi). Baghdader Forschungen 18. Mainzam Rhein , p.50 , 1994.
-Borger,R.,Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste,Germany,(1988)AbZ, p.188,No:437
-Goetze ,A, “Reports on Acts of Extispicy from Old Babylonian and Kassite Times” Journal of Cuneiform Studies, JCS , Vol. 11, No.4, (Chicago, 1957) , p. 94 ;
Ulla Koch., Old Babylonian Extispicy Reports ,2002 ,p.133-134 .
- Von Soden,W.,Akkadishes Handworterbuch, Wiesbaden(1959ff), AHw, p:47 ; Black, J. and George, A. and Postgate, N., A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian , Wiesbaden, (1999) , CDA ,p:16
- CUSAS , Op.Cit , p.16
- Leemans,W.F Legal and Economic Records of The Kingdom of Larsa ,Leiden ,(1954), SLB, 1/2 ,p.50,35:14 ;
CDA,p.135:b .
- Falkenstein, A. Die Neusumerischen Gerichtsur Kunden,Munchen (1957). NG3, p.125.
- Labat, R., Manual d,epigraphie Akkadienne, paris (1976). MDA.,p.289 ; AHw, p.8:a .
- Oppenheim , A.L. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, (CAD) , Gluchstadt (1956ff). U/W ,p.92 .
- MDA, p.101:143.
- AHw,p.12:a ; CDA,p.4:b
- Langdon, S.,Babylonian Menologies and Semetic Calender,London,1933,BMSC, pp.126-129
- Goetze ,A, Old Babylonian Omen Texts Babylonian Texts, (YOS) vol. 10 , ( New Haven, 1947) . , 2:1 ; AHw, 793 :a .
- CAD, E ,P.241:a .
- CAD, T, P.357:b ;CT, 31, 30:4 .
- CAD, Š/3, P.247:a ;YOS, 10,8:26 .
Conserning the Sumerian term (SILIM-MA ) we are still uncertain of its primary meaning. Although the spelling by cannot lie considered sufficient proof that the word is etymological connected with " well -bieng.” . It may by mere accident be-homonymous with “well-being.”
The customary translation “blister, vesicle ” is based on an uncertain interpretation of the word in the oil omina,
The context of the liver omina favors a position between the feat ekalim and the gall-bladder, close to the root of the latter.
- AHw, P.402 .
- Archives royales de Mari, traduction , (Paris, 1950 ff.). ARMT ,26 , 113:9 ;
YOS, 10,44:49 ; CAD, P, P.2:b ff. .
- ULLA, Jeyes ., Old Babylonian Extispicy Omen , Op.Cit ,p.61
- H.F.LUTZ., “A CASSITE LIVER-OMEN TEXT”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, (JAOS), VOL. 38 (USA, 1918) . 82:9 ; CAD, D, P.81:a ; CT,28, 46:5 ; BE, 14, 4:4.
- CAD, M/1, P.297:a ;CT, 30, 9:16 .
- CAD, I, p.120:a .
- YOS.10,p.6
- CUSAS , p.16
- JAOS,38 , p.92 ; CAD,Ş,p.176 ; Old Babylonian Extispicy Reports ,Op.Cit ,p.134.
- CDA,P:206 .
- CAD, K, P.159:a ; Bab, 2 , 257:6 ;TCL,6 , 5:33 .
- Nougayrol, Jean, Rapports paléo-babyloniens d'haruspices“ , Journal of Cuneiform Studies, JCS ,Vol.21,No.1 ,(Chicago,1967). p.226 , 860:8 ; YOS 10 25:17 ; CAD,Q , p.121:a . ; JCS,11, No. 4. , Op.Cit , p. 105 .
- CAD, Š/3, P.267:b ;YOS, 10 ,2r.4 .
- Old Babylonian Extispicy,Op.Cit ,p.134 .
- Moṭi. Kohen, André Parrot, Georges, Archives royales de Mari : [transcriptions et traductions] , (ARM) , Vol. 5 , (Paris, 1952) . 65:34 ; CAD, P/1, P.286:b ;JCS, 21,222 BM 12287:6 .
- Old Babylonian Extispicy Reports , Op.Cit ,p.139 ; JCS,11,p.95 ;
Annual of the American School(s) of Oriental Research, (ASOR), (New Haven, 1919/1920 ff.), p.220 ; Old Babylonian Extispicy omen Op.Cit , p. 99; 1:1.
-Old Babylonian Extispicy omen , Op.Cit ,p. 65. ; CAD, P.3:b .
- Old Babylonian Extispicy Reports, Op.Cit ,p.139 . ; JAOS,38 , p.94 .
- CUSAS , p.23
- CAD, H, P.143:b ; AbZ, 164:401 .
- CAD, T, P.91 ; JCS,11,p.99
- JCS, 11, p.104 no.22:12 .
- Ibid.
- CAD, R,P.91:a;JAOS, 38, 82:12 ;CT, 41, 42:7 ;JCS, 37, 147.
- JCS, 21 , p.223 b ; JAOS,38, , p.96 .
- CAD,T,p.478 ; YOS.10 , 45:66 .
- Stone. ,E. C., Nippur Neighborhoods,.. , Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, (SAOC), (Chicago 1987) . 44 , 43:r.9. ; CAD, Š/2 ,P.197:a
- MDA, p.191, :420 .
- Meissner ,B., Babylonian and Assyrian,Heidelberg ,(1952) ,p.267. ;ARMT, 26 , 113:9 ;YOS, p.6 .
- CAD,P,p.544:b
- YOS,10, p.5 ; (CUSAS),Vol.18 , Op.Cit, p.16
- Old Babylonian Extispicy Reports, Op.Cit ,p.139 .
- JCS,11, No. 4 , p.98 .
- YOS . 10, p. 8 .
AHw,p.1361:a ;JAOS, 38 , 82/5 .
- YOS,10 ,p.8-9 .
- ASOR , p.220
- JCS,11, Op.Cit , p.95
-. Ibid , p.95
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