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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.
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Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil
Cuneiform Monographs Editors t. abusch – m.j. geller s.m. maul – f.a.m. wiggermann
VOLUME 43
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Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44–49)
By
Erlend Gehlken
LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weather omens of Enuma Anu Enlil : thunderstorms, wind and rain (tablets 44-49) / Erlend Gehlken. p. cm. — (Cuneiform monographs ; 43) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-22588-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Akkadian language—Texts. 2. Omens—Iraq—Babylonia. I. Gehlken, Erlend. PJ3791.W43 2012 492’.1—dc23
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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ‘Technical’ Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 II. The Adad Tablets EAE 44–49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A. Tablet 44 (Thunder). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1. Introductory Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ‘Group I’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ‘Group II’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 B. Tablet 45 (Thunder). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 1. Introductory Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2. Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3. Commentary. . . . . . . .