A Kassite Exercise Tablet with Omens Concerning the “Yoke” of the Liver
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6077844 |
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| Authors | Nils P Heessel (Philipps University of Marburg), Elyze Zomer (0000-0002-9506-7595, University of Tübingen) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Pages | 49-59 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/725408 |
| OpenAlex | W4383890099 |
| Language | EN |
This paper offers an editio princeps of HS 1898, a Kassite exercise tablet containing an extract with ten liver omens followed by numeric tallies with the 10u-sign. The omens duplicate the fragmentary obverse of a Neo-Babylonian nīru-compendium, the reverse of which in turn replicated omens known from the fifteenth tablet of the bārûtu-series Pān tākalti and the unedited fragment from Nineveh. The student used complicated lexical and graphical variations in writing the technical term nīru, “the Yoke
Art · Compendium · Fifteenth · Linguistics · Literature · Sign (mathematics · Simulation · Yoke (aeronautics · Ancient Near East History · Botanical Research and Chemistry · Classics · Computer Science · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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