The magical ceremony Maqlu
Subtitle: a critical edition
By: by Tzvi Abusch
Series: Ancient magic and divination -- VOLUME 10
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9789004285149; 9789004291706
Subjects: Magic, Assyro-Babylonian; Incantations, Assyro-Babylonian
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.