Nicla De Zorzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1723685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicla De Zorzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicla |
| FAMILY NAME | De Zorzi |
| SIGNATURE | DE ZORZI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2015-1597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ancient Mesopotamian Animal Omens
The article addresses a Babylonian collection of omens regarding animals and their behavior. These omens are part of a large series of terrestrial omens that is known as Šumma ālu (ina mēlê šakin) “If a city (is set on a height).” The main argument of this article is that these animal omens should not be seen as straightforward reflections of actual animal behavior, but are conceived as a culturally constructed bestiarium, that is, as a mirror of…
Written on the Lungs
Several sources prove that sheep lungs played an important role in Ancient Mesopotamian extispicy practice. Nevertheless, they have received comparatively little attention in Assyriology. The terminology used by ancient diviners to describe the various parts of the divinatory lung represents an especially neglected area of research. This article represents a new attempt at resolving some of the problems created by the ancient terminology. It demo…
Ancient Mesopotamian Divinatory Series from the British Museum
This paper contains editions of three previously unpublished omen texts and one commentary text from the collections of the British Museum. BM 36165 and BM 34999 are Late Babylonian manuscripts of Šumma ālu tablet 1 while K 6260 is a join to Šumma izbu tablet 4. BM 47684+ is part of a large Late Babylonian four-column tablet containing a new commentary on physiognomic omens. The edition of these tablets is accompanied by an extensive commentary t…
Teratomancy at Tigunānum
This article examines the inner structure, building principles, and hermeneutic code of a group of late Middle Bronze age teratomantic tablets from Tigunānum in northern Mesopotamia. While in the final evaluation, the Tigunānum teratomantic corpus is of southern Babylonian inspiration, it represents a very specific local reworking of this tradition. This article posits as its distinctive feature the use of a strongly gendered imagery and language…
The Death of Utu-hegal and Other Historical Omens
The subject of this article is a sequence of three historical omen apodoses that mention Mesopotamian kings of the third millennium BC: two kings of the North named ...bagar and Rabsisi, the king of Uruk Utu-hegal, and the last king of the Ur III Dynasty Ibbi-Sîn. The sequence derives from the eighth tablet of Šumma ḫašû, “If the lung(s),” the ninth chapter of the extispicy series Bārûtu. The discussion of the passage and its parallels adds to ou…
Erlend Gehlken
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Erlend Gehlken
The Death of Utu-hegal and Other Historical Omens
The subject of this article is a sequence of three historical omen apodoses that mention Mesopotamian kings of the third millennium BC: two kings of the North named ...bagar and Rabsisi, the king of Uruk Utu-hegal, and the last king of the Ur III Dynasty Ibbi-Sîn. The sequence derives from the eighth tablet of Šumma ḫašû, “If the lung(s),” the ninth chapter of the extispicy series Bārûtu. The discussion of the passage and its parallels adds to ou…
Teratomancy at Tigunānum
This article examines the inner structure, building principles, and hermeneutic code of a group of late Middle Bronze age teratomantic tablets from Tigunānum in northern Mesopotamia. While in the final evaluation, the Tigunānum teratomantic corpus is of southern Babylonian inspiration, it represents a very specific local reworking of this tradition. This article posits as its distinctive feature the use of a strongly gendered imagery and language…
Written on the Lungs
Several sources prove that sheep lungs played an important role in Ancient Mesopotamian extispicy practice. Nevertheless, they have received comparatively little attention in Assyriology. The terminology used by ancient diviners to describe the various parts of the divinatory lung represents an especially neglected area of research. This article represents a new attempt at resolving some of the problems created by the ancient terminology. It demo…
Ancient Mesopotamian Divinatory Series from the British Museum
This paper contains editions of three previously unpublished omen texts and one commentary text from the collections of the British Museum. BM 36165 and BM 34999 are Late Babylonian manuscripts of Šumma ālu tablet 1 while K 6260 is a join to Šumma izbu tablet 4. BM 47684+ is part of a large Late Babylonian four-column tablet containing a new commentary on physiognomic omens. The edition of these tablets is accompanied by an extensive commentary t…
Ancient Mesopotamian Animal Omens
The article addresses a Babylonian collection of omens regarding animals and their behavior. These omens are part of a large series of terrestrial omens that is known as Šumma ālu (ina mēlê šakin) “If a city (is set on a height).” The main argument of this article is that these animal omens should not be seen as straightforward reflections of actual animal behavior, but are conceived as a culturally constructed bestiarium, that is, as a mirror of…
Ancient Near East History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Omen (3 works)