Daniel Schwemer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 622497 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel Schwemer |
| PRENOMES | Daniel |
| SOBRENOME | Schwemer |
| ASSINATURA | SCHWEMER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9341-6344 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
In memoriam Wolfgang Röllig
Bīt mēseri at Aššur
A 191, a Neo-Assyrian tablet from the Haus des Beschwörungspriesters in Aššur, preserves instructions for the performance of an apotropaic ritual called Bīt mēseri (“house of enclosure”). The tablet, which is edited here for the first time, offers a version of the ceremony that is markedly different from the standard Bīt mēseri ritual known from other first-millennium sources found at Nineveh, Aššur, and various Babylonian sites. Whereas the core…
Boğazköy’de Bulunan Yayımlanmamış Hititçe Tablet Parçaları
Çalışmanın konusunu, 1987 yılında Almanya’dan Türkiye’ye getirilen ve Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi’nde korunan, Boğazköy’de yapılan ilk kazılarda bulunmuş, yayımlanmamış altı adet Hititçe tablet parçası oluşturmaktadır. Makale, bu çiviyazılı fragmanların paleografik yönden tarihlendirilmeleri ve dört adedinin Boğazköy’de bulunan yayımlanmış Hititçe metinler ile birleşme/bağlanma bilgilerini içermektedir. Ayrıca diğer iki fragman için bir d…
Nabû, the Avenger
B 158 is a Seleucid-period manuscript of the bilingual Balaĝ prayer Ukkin-ta eš-bar til-la . The tablet, which was found at Babylon in 1902 and is edited here for the first time, contains major portions of text that have hitherto been unknown. The prayer is suffused with first-millennium Nabû theology and contains a unique literary request for revenge against the enemy in the mountain lands. The findspot of B 158 may shed light on the provenance …
Any Evil, a Stalking Ghost, and the Bull-Headed Demon
Based on first-millennium cuneiform manuscripts from Aššur, Babylon, and Uruk, this article offers an edition of a ritual against an illness conceptualized as the demon ‘Any Evil’. The text sheds light on how the catch-all figure Any Evil corresponds to the idea of a universal cure for any physical ailment, and how the rhetoric of the incantation articulates this relationship and facilitates the active participation of the patient. The ritual ins…
Rituale und Beschwörungen gegen Schadenzauber
Protecting the King from Enemies, at Home and on Campaign
Th 1905–4–9, 67 (BM 98561) is a small, almost completely preserved tablet from Nineveh inscribed in Babylonian script. Study of the palaeography and find-spot suggest a pre-7th century date of the tablet. The tablet contains two rituals: one for protecting the king in his palace, and a second for protection on a journey or military campaign. The first ritual uses an incantation in garbled Sumerian addressed to the reed. The Akkadian incantations …
Prescriptions and Rituals for Happiness, Success, and Divine Favor
The Ritual Tablet of Maqlû
Entrusting the witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal
The hitherto unpublished Late Babylonian fragment BM 47806 + adds another example to the group of rituals which counteract witchcraft by banning sorcerers to the netherworld. Šamaš is asked to hand them over, on his journey to the netherworld, to Ḫumuṭ-tabal, the ferryman of the dead. The edition of BM 47806 + is preceded by a brief overview of rituals of this type, including a discussion of the relationship between ritual burial of figurines – s…
The Chicago Maqlû fragment (A 7876)
The fragment A 7876 (Oriental Institute, Chicago) occupies a special position among the cuneiform sources of the ritual Maqlû . The six-column tablet, inscribed in the Neo-Assyrian script of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, originally contained the complete text of the series with its nine canonical tablets. Taking into account the relevant duplicate manuscripts the article offers an annotated edition of this fragment and compares its style and form…
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
Witchcraft and war
War, and imminent battle in particular, put any Babylonian or Assyrian king, whose rule and security very much depended on successful campaigns, in a precarious situation. While careful military planning certainly helped to defeat one's enemies, victory in the end was determined by the gods. Before entering battle, oracles were consulted to make certain that the king's decisions had the gods' favour, and a number of other rituals could be perform…
Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
Ein akkadischer Liebeszauber aus Ḫattuša
Die in Ḫattuša gefundene, bislang unbearbeitetete Tafel KBo. 36, 27 bietet akkadische Texte magisch-medizinischen Inhalts, darunter ein Potenzritual, das eine sonst unbekannte Beschwörung an Nanaja einschließt. Nanaja wird innerhalb dieser Beschwö-rung, die in der Tradition der aus Babylonien bekannten Divine Love Lyrics steht, auch als Kilili bezeichnet. Ein Exkurs widmet sich dem Überlieferungsbild akkadischer Texte aus Ḫattuša insgesamt
Akkadische Rituale aus Ḫattuša
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
Prescriptions and Rituals for Happiness, Success, and Divine Favor
Akkadische Rituale aus Ḫattuša
Ein akkadischer Liebeszauber aus Ḫattuša
Die in Ḫattuša gefundene, bislang unbearbeitetete Tafel KBo. 36, 27 bietet akkadische Texte magisch-medizinischen Inhalts, darunter ein Potenzritual, das eine sonst unbekannte Beschwörung an Nanaja einschließt. Nanaja wird innerhalb dieser Beschwö-rung, die in der Tradition der aus Babylonien bekannten Divine Love Lyrics steht, auch als Kilili bezeichnet. Ein Exkurs widmet sich dem Überlieferungsbild akkadischer Texte aus Ḫattuša insgesamt
Witchcraft and war
War, and imminent battle in particular, put any Babylonian or Assyrian king, whose rule and security very much depended on successful campaigns, in a precarious situation. While careful military planning certainly helped to defeat one's enemies, victory in the end was determined by the gods. Before entering battle, oracles were consulted to make certain that the king's decisions had the gods' favour, and a number of other rituals could be perform…
Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling over the gods and bestowing kingship on the human ruler. While the Babylonian and Assyrian storm-god never held the highest position among the gods, he too belongs to the group of 'great gods' thro…
The Chicago Maqlû fragment (A 7876)
The fragment A 7876 (Oriental Institute, Chicago) occupies a special position among the cuneiform sources of the ritual Maqlû . The six-column tablet, inscribed in the Neo-Assyrian script of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, originally contained the complete text of the series with its nine canonical tablets. Taking into account the relevant duplicate manuscripts the article offers an annotated edition of this fragment and compares its style and form…
Entrusting the witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal
The hitherto unpublished Late Babylonian fragment BM 47806 + adds another example to the group of rituals which counteract witchcraft by banning sorcerers to the netherworld. Šamaš is asked to hand them over, on his journey to the netherworld, to Ḫumuṭ-tabal, the ferryman of the dead. The edition of BM 47806 + is preceded by a brief overview of rituals of this type, including a discussion of the relationship between ritual burial of figurines – s…
The Ritual Tablet of Maqlû
Protecting the King from Enemies, at Home and on Campaign
Th 1905–4–9, 67 (BM 98561) is a small, almost completely preserved tablet from Nineveh inscribed in Babylonian script. Study of the palaeography and find-spot suggest a pre-7th century date of the tablet. The tablet contains two rituals: one for protecting the king in his palace, and a second for protection on a journey or military campaign. The first ritual uses an incantation in garbled Sumerian addressed to the reed. The Akkadian incantations …
Prescriptions and Rituals for Happiness, Success, and Divine Favor
Rituale und Beschwörungen gegen Schadenzauber
Any Evil, a Stalking Ghost, and the Bull-Headed Demon
Based on first-millennium cuneiform manuscripts from Aššur, Babylon, and Uruk, this article offers an edition of a ritual against an illness conceptualized as the demon ‘Any Evil’. The text sheds light on how the catch-all figure Any Evil corresponds to the idea of a universal cure for any physical ailment, and how the rhetoric of the incantation articulates this relationship and facilitates the active participation of the patient. The ritual ins…
Nabû, the Avenger
B 158 is a Seleucid-period manuscript of the bilingual Balaĝ prayer Ukkin-ta eš-bar til-la . The tablet, which was found at Babylon in 1902 and is edited here for the first time, contains major portions of text that have hitherto been unknown. The prayer is suffused with first-millennium Nabû theology and contains a unique literary request for revenge against the enemy in the mountain lands. The findspot of B 158 may shed light on the provenance …
Boğazköy’de Bulunan Yayımlanmamış Hititçe Tablet Parçaları
Çalışmanın konusunu, 1987 yılında Almanya’dan Türkiye’ye getirilen ve Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi’nde korunan, Boğazköy’de yapılan ilk kazılarda bulunmuş, yayımlanmamış altı adet Hititçe tablet parçası oluşturmaktadır. Makale, bu çiviyazılı fragmanların paleografik yönden tarihlendirilmeleri ve dört adedinin Boğazköy’de bulunan yayımlanmış Hititçe metinler ile birleşme/bağlanma bilgilerini içermektedir. Ayrıca diğer iki fragman için bir d…
In memoriam Wolfgang Röllig
Bīt mēseri at Aššur
A 191, a Neo-Assyrian tablet from the Haus des Beschwörungspriesters in Aššur, preserves instructions for the performance of an apotropaic ritual called Bīt mēseri (“house of enclosure”). The tablet, which is edited here for the first time, offers a version of the ceremony that is markedly different from the standard Bīt mēseri ritual known from other first-millennium sources found at Nineveh, Aššur, and various Babylonian sites. Whereas the core…
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