Weather omens of Enuma Anu Enlil : thunderstorms, wind and rain (tablets 44-49) / edited by Erlend Gehlken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gehlken, Erlend.

Series:

Cuneiform Monographs 43.

Cuneiform monographs ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Akkadian language--Texts.

Akkadian language.

Omens--Iraq--Babylonia.

Omens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Assyro-Babylonian omen series Enūma Anu Enlil , written on seventy cuneiform tablets, bears witness to the early understanding of the mutual interactions of heaven and earth on both the physical and the religious levels. To facilitate accessibility, technical and linguistic commentaries as well as an excerpt series were compiled by the scholars of old. This ancient knowledge, which was still largely characterized by mythological concepts, was never completely abandoned, not even when the ‘calculating’ astronomy became prevalent in the first millennium B.C. The series deals in four parts with the moon, the sun, weather phenomena, and fixed stars and planets. This book offers an edition of the texts of the second half of the weather section with the accompanying material.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Adad Tablets EAE 44–49

The Series Rikis gerri

Bibliography

List of Plates

Index of Terms

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Texts

Abbreviations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55112-8

9786613863577

90-04-22599-4

OCLC:

808488984

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004225992 DOI