Mesopotamian Religion
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The practice of a king appointing his daughter as the High Priestess and consort of an important male deity arose independently in the Ancient Near East and Egypt. In Mesopotamia, the prime example of such an appointee was the... more
It is now firmly established that Sargon II's brother Sīn-aḫu-uṣur was also his vizier (sukkallu). He was the addressee of many letters written by the subjects of the Empire. He appears on a number of contemporary documents. The present... more
Disgusted with ISIS, some Kurds turned away from Islam following the fall of Mosul in 2014. Many became atheists, while others sought comfort in Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism, according to converts, was the “original” religion of the... more
Diversos textos nos muestran a la Música como una realidad especialmente considerada en Mesopotamia, aunque ninguno de esos textos nos dice por qué tenía esa importancia. No obstante, un análisis del relato sobre la construcción del... more
This article presents an edition of three Old Babylonian literary texts relating to the goddess Nanaya: A new edition of the well-known, but difficult hymn VS 10, 215, and the editio princeps of two fragmentary texts UET 6/2, 404 (hymn)... more
Flyer advertising talk given 31 Aug, 2017; studio podcast version available on request. Full paper in Egyptology & Sumerology section of my Academia.edu portfolio.
The present work aims at reexamining the evidence related to a group of entities usually known as mārāt Ani " daughters of Anu " , who act frequently in second and first-millennium Mesopotamian magical texts. On the basis of a new... more