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Document Details : Title: Labor Pains, Difficult Birth, Sick Child Subtitle: Three Old Babylonian Incantations from a Private Collection Author(s): WASSERMAN, Nathan Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 75 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2018 Pages: 14-25 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.75.1.3285282 Abstract : In this paper, three unpublished Old Babylonian incantations from a private collection are presented for the first time in edition, translation and commentary. Two of the texts aim at helping a woman in labor (IncPriv 1, IncPriv 2), the third focus on a sick child, suffering from a severe throat inflammation, trying to save him from the brink of death (IncPriv 3). The incantations have no direct parallels, but one of them contain the well-known Cow motif (IncPriv 2). |
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