The magical ceremony Maqlu
a critical edition
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Word Count
101,000 words, Guess
Page Count
404 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30392286M
- ISBN-139789004285149
- OCLC Control Number930611161
- OCLC Control Number904505971
- Library of Congress Control Number2015006278
Classifications
- DDC892/.1
- LCCPJ3791 .A285 2015
- LCCPJ3791.A285 2015
and 1 more
- LCCPJ3791 .A285 2016
Description
"The Akkadian series Maqlû, 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East. Maqlû is a nine-tablet work consisting of the text of almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft. The work prescribes a single complex ceremony and stands at the end of a complex literary and ceremonial development. Thus, Maqlû provides important information not only about the literary forms and cultural ideas of individual incantations, but also about larger ritual structures and thematic relations of complex ceremonies. This new edition of the standard text contains a synoptic edition of all manuscripts, a composite text in transliteration, an annotated transcription and translation."--Back cover.
Series Statement
- Ancient magic and divination -- VOLUME 10
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