Varia

At least in a general way, no. 48 should be associated with royal correspondence on the subject of, and rituals connected with, childbirth (cf. LAS 339+ with further references). It is interesting to note also the antecedent Middle Assyrian birth rituals and incantations where the cow of Sin is prominent.[[19]] Of no. 49 not enough is preserved for confidence even as to the general nature of the original text, but one could perhaps think that this is part of a composition in which the principal figure is Nabû. No. 50 is an excerpt from an otherwise unknown historical epic.



19 W. G. Lambert, "A Middle Assyrian Tablet of Incantations," AS 16 (1965), p. 283ff; idem, "A Middle Assyrian Medical Text," Iraq 31 (1969) 28ff.

Alasdair Livingstone

Alasdair Livingstone, 'Varia', Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea, SAA 3. Original publication: Helsinki, Helsinki University Press, 1989; online contents: SAAo/SAA03 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2020 [http://oracc.org/saao/saa03/natureandcontent/varia/]

 
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