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| ==A cross for the bull-man== | **Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform** |
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| //Artifact//: Bronze cross\\ | //Artifact//: Clay Tablet\\ |
| //Provenience//: Assur\\ | //Provenience//: Uruk\\ |
| //Period//: Middle Assyrian period (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ | //Period//: Hellenistic (ca. 323-363 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany \\ | //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris, France \\ |
| //Text genre, language//: Royal/Monumental; Akkadian\\ | //Text genre, language//: Religious; Aramaic\\ |
| [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pnnnnnn|CDLI page]]\\ | [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P363730|CDLI page]]\\ |
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| //Description//: The importance of this hoard found in the area of the Ashur-temple in Assur is not the text inscribed on the larger bronze cross, but the uniqueness of this find on the one hand and the relation between imagery and text. The hoard consisted among others of two crosses, two cylinder seals, a golden platelet, which depicts the human chest in relief as well as a second rectangular golden platelet with a depiction of the bull-man holding a standard in front of him. This mythological being is known as //Kusarikku// and this term is referred to in the text inscribed on the larger bronze cross. The text is dedicated to this being and was commissioned by the brewer of the Eshara-temple. Crosses are not uncommon in the imagery of Kassite cylinder seals. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford) | //Description//: Although the provenance and date cannot be established with certainty, the text is probably Seleucid and is written in Eastern Aramaic. Although the text does not conform to any known genres, nor is it a precursor to the later Aramaic incantation bowls, it consists of incantations that address slander. Other than a Late Babylonian school text whose first two columns seem to render the Aramaic alphabet in cuneiform script, this is the only known Aramaic inscription in cuneiform. While it is likely that Aramaic took over as the spoken language in the ancient Near East in the first millennium BC, such a text is unique. (Moudhy Al-Rashid, University of Oxford) |
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| //Editions//: Klengen-Brandt, E. and J. Marzahn, "Ein Hortfund mit Kreuzen aus Assur," //Baghdader Mitteilungen// 28, 209 - 38, pll. 16 - 27. | //Editions//: Geller, M.J.. 2001. "The Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform Script (AO 6489 = TCL 6,58)", JEOL 35/36, pp. 127-146; Gordon, Cyrus H. 1937-1939. "The Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform", //AfO// 12, pp. 105-117; Kessler, Karlheinz. 2009. "Das wahre Ende Babylons - die Tradition der Aramäer, Mandäer, Juden und Mänichäer", in: J. Marzahn & G. Schauerte (eds) //Babylon. Wahrheit// (Berlin): 467-486, 471, Abb. 336 (Photo). |
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