The Ancient Near East: History, Texts, etc

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The Ancient Near East:History, Texts, etc Christopher T. Begg and Isaac M. Alderman 31. [The Stela of Lady T-rp(yt)] Abdelrahman Ali Abdelrahman, "The Stela of Lady T-rp(yt) in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo," AO 39 (2, 2021) 161-66. This article studies the stela of a woman named Ta-repit, which is now housed in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. I provide a brief description of the scene depicted on the upper part of the stela and then present a transliteration and translation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions on its lower part. I conclude with some philological comments, including a proposed emendation of the name of the mother of the owner of the stela. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 32. [A "Literary" Fragment from the Istanbul Sippar Archive] Selim Ferruh Adali and Eckart Frahm, "The Slave-Girl's Child: A 'Literary' Fragment from the Istanbul Sippar Archive," AO 39 (1, 2021) 5-17. In this article, we publish a fragmentary clay tablet from the Sippar Collection in the Cuneiform Tablets Archive of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, inventoried under the museum number Si 735. The tablet seems to record, in literary language, the ruminations of a man about a female slave who had given birth to his son. Due, however, to the tablet's poor state of preservation, many aspects of this unusual text remain unclear. After introductory remarks on the nature of the tablet and a brief discussion of the above-cited "Sippar Collection," we provide an edition of the text, together with notes on its orthography, language, structure, and genre, as well as a philological commentary. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 33. [Charles Clermont-Ganneau and the Mesha Stela] Isabel Bonora Andijar, "Charles Clermont-Ganneau et la redécouverte de la stèle de Mésha," Stèle de Mésha/Mescha-Stele, 97-138 [see #922]. A.'s historical study complements that of S. Willert (see #93) concerning the tangled story of how the Mesha Stela made its way from Dibon in ancient Moab, where it had stood for some two and a half-millennia, to its current resting place in the Louvre during the years 1868–1873. Basing herself on the archives of several Parisian institutions, A. highlights the involvement of the French consular official and epigraphist Charles Clermont-Ganneau (1846–1923) in this process, first in acquiring the pieces of the stone which had been smashed by Bedouins shortly after its discovery in situ by A. F. Klein and selling these to the Louvre and then working himself at the Louvre on the reconstruction of the stela (a project he brought to successful completion in 1875) on the basis of drawings and a tracing of the still intact artifact which he had commissioned several Arab workers to carry out prior to its destruction.—C.T.B. 34. [Babylonian Bird Omen Collections, Astral Observations and the Manzāzu] Netanel Anor and Yoram Cohen, "Bird in the Sky—Babylonian Bird Omen Collections, Astral Observations, and the Manzāzu," Revue d'assyriologie et de'archéologie orientale 115 (2021) 51-80. The purpose of our paper is to discuss Babylonian bird omen collections in order to determine how a sacrificial bird's outer physical organs might have been interpreted by the diviner as signs of potential celestial events. On this basis, we argue that the well-known term manzāzu refers to the concrete appearance of a deity as an astral body during the [End Page 10] course of an extispicy ritual. Our discussion concludes with a full edition of a bird omen compendium (YOS 10.51, YOS 10.52, and J. Nougayrol, 1967). [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 35. [The Late Babylonian Medical Compendium Tablet, BM 32277+] András Bácskay, "Medical Treatments against Respiratory Diseases, Ear Complaints and Migraine: An Edition of a Late Babylonian Medical Compendium Tablet, BM 32277+," Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 115 (2021) 159-74. My paper presents an edition and analysis of a previously unpublished Late Babylonian medical tablet from...