The ‘Prostration Hemerology’ Revisited: An Everyman’s Manual at the King’s Court
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Enrique Jiménez
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Selim F. Adalı
Abstract:
The ‘Prostration Hemerology’, with its seemingly random selection of dates and plethora of unparalleled prescriptions – such as the towing of boats upstream, the kissing of ecstatics, and the impregnating of street women –, is one of the most peculiar hemerologies in Alasdair Livingstone’s recent anthology of the genre. This article attempts a new reconstruction of the text which differs from Livingstone’s in several respects. To this end it uses eight previously unpublished manuscripts, identified in the collections of the Ancient Orient Museum of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, the University Museum (Philadelphia), and the British Museum. Thanks to these and the collation of the other five tablets used by Livingstone, an almost complete reconstruction of the text is now possible. It reveals itself to be an influential hemerology: as well as being widely cited by scholars at the Assyrian court, it was extensively quoted in later hemerological compilations.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Abhandlungen
- Children in Institutional Households of Late Uruk Period Mesopotamia
- Hemerology, Extispicy and Ilī-padâ’s Illness
- The ‘Prostration Hemerology’ Revisited: An Everyman’s Manual at the King’s Court
- A Neo-Assyrian Slave Sale Contract of 725 BC from the Peshdar Plain and the Location of the Palace Herald’s Province
- “Like an iron peg I have struck the words to the gods …”. A Hittite Invocation for Overturning Slander
- A Fragmentary Stela of the Urartian King Argišti I found in Arinçkus, to the Northwest of Van Lake
- A Fragment of a Potter’s Wheel from Abu Tbeirah
- Buchbesprechungen
- Alhena Gadotti: ‘Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld’ and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle
- Doris Prechel, Helmut Freydank: Urkunden der königlichen Palastverwalter vom Ende des 2. Jt. v. Chr.
- Erlend Gehlken: Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil. Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44–49)
- Ira Spar, Michael Jursa: Cuneiform Texts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millenium B. C.
- Christel Rüster, Gernot Wilhelm: Landschenkungsurkunden hethitischer Könige
- Johannes Friedrich †, Annelies Kammenhuber †, Albertine Hagenbuchner (Hg.): Hethitisches Wörterbuch
- Simone Mühl: Siedlungsgeschichte im mittleren Osttigrisgebiet. Vom Neolithikum bis in die neuassyrische Zeit
