Lamastu: An Edition Of The Canonical Series Of Lamastu Incantations And Rituals And Related Texts From The Second And First Millennia B.c. (mesopotamian Civilizations)
by Walter Farber /
2014 / English / PDF
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Lamastu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons,
playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and
magico-medical beliefs and practices of ancient Mesopotamia for
nearly two millennia. Yet, she has never been the subject of a
scholarly monograph dedicated to the textual and visual evidence
for her, her activities, and the measures that ancient magical
specialists took to counter her. This volume also falls short of
this description, because it covers only one part of the
material: it is an edition of the textual record only, which is,
however, collected here as completely as seems possible today.
Walter Farber, who has studied these materials for decades,
presents a comprehensive collection of all of the known texts,
the texts of the primary incantations in a "score" format, and
transliteration and translation of a number of ancillary texts.
This much-awaited volume will fill the void in the literature on
this aspect of the life and thought of ancient Mesopotamian
peoples regarding the character of this malevolent creature and
the means of warding off the threat that she posed.
Lamastu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons,
playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and
magico-medical beliefs and practices of ancient Mesopotamia for
nearly two millennia. Yet, she has never been the subject of a
scholarly monograph dedicated to the textual and visual evidence
for her, her activities, and the measures that ancient magical
specialists took to counter her. This volume also falls short of
this description, because it covers only one part of the
material: it is an edition of the textual record only, which is,
however, collected here as completely as seems possible today.
Walter Farber, who has studied these materials for decades,
presents a comprehensive collection of all of the known texts,
the texts of the primary incantations in a "score" format, and
transliteration and translation of a number of ancillary texts.
This much-awaited volume will fill the void in the literature on
this aspect of the life and thought of ancient Mesopotamian
peoples regarding the character of this malevolent creature and
the means of warding off the threat that she posed.