nam-nar/nārūtu in the Seleucid Period: revisiting an excerpt of CT 17, pl. 18 [BM 34223+]

  • Daniel Sánchez Munõz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22012/baf.2019.09

Abstract

We find the following textual excerpt in the cuneiform tablet BM 34223+, a manuscript of the exorcistic bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) series from the Seleucid Period currently known as “Compendium”:


iv 18. en2 saŋ-gig an-eden-na i3-du7-du7 im-gen7 mu-un-ri-ri
iv 19. im-dub 24 EZEN(šer3/kešda) nam-nar eš2-gar3 udug-ḫul-meš nu al-til


iv 18. Incantation: “The (demon of the) headache whirls in the steppe, and it drifts there like the wind”
iv 19. 24th Tablet. Song/riksu of the nam-nar. Series “Evil demons”. Not complete.


There have been several interpretations in the past for the “EZEN nam-nar” of this textual excerpt; however, all of them have been based on different readings and meanings of EZEN without a serious analysis of the textual mentions of the Sumerian nam-nar (and its Akkadian equivalent nārūtu) during the Seleucid Period.
Published
2020-11-05
How to Cite
Sánchez Munõz, D. (2020). nam-nar/nārūtu in the Seleucid Period: revisiting an excerpt of CT 17, pl. 18 [BM 34223+]. BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.22012/baf.2019.09
Issue
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Proceedings of the 4th Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF), 11th-13th June 2019
Section
Panel IŠTAR: Forms of transtextual analysis

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