The Ritual-Prayer Nisaba 1 and Its Function

The Mesopotamian ritual-prayer Nisaba 1, a monolingual text in Akkadian addressed to the goddess of grain, blends the functionality of two genres: Akkadian Šuillas and Kultmittelbeschwörungen. Like Kultmittelbeschwörungen, it is addressed to a material (here, the flour identified with Nisaba) in ord...

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Main Author: Christopher Frechette, S.J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2011
In: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Year: 2011, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 70-93
Further subjects:B Mesopotamia ritual prayer šuilla Kultmittelbeschwörungen Nisaba
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