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Abstract

There are only eight incantation texts among 23500 Kultepe tablets. Some researches assert that these incantation texts were exercising documents belong to people who were trying to learn literacy, and should be accepted as school texts. This opinion can be suit for some of the incantation texts but it is clear that most of these texts were written by professional scribes and were used for their actual purpose. Especially, the text Kt 94/k 821 was shaped to use as an amulet. The tablet has a hole on top to reeve a rope for hanging it on a wall or a door. Comparing to the dark magic or binding spell which are very common in Mesopotamian and later Hittite sources, none of these Kultepe incantations are vicious. These incantations are positive used as protection against illnesses and demons. Hence, these texts can be compared with objects called “amulet” which are still used against all kind of evil.