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Document Details : Title: More Evidence for the Relationship between Heaven and Earth in Divination from Tablet 16 of the Series multābiltu Author(s): FINCKE, Jeanette C. Journal: Orientalia Volume: 89 Issue: 2 Date: 2020 Pages: 171-195 DOI: 10.2143/ORI.89.2.3293051 Abstract : The Late Babylonian fragment BM 42105 gives correlations between liver parts and the objects a diviner used during a ritual before the gods. The correlations between liver parts and the gods are identical with the ones of the Late Babylonian text SpTU IV 159 from Uruk. The incipit of BM 42105 proves that this text and SpTU IV 159 are excerpts from the missing 16th tablet of the series multābiltu, which is the tenth chapter of the extispicy series. The new text further proves that the text describing the qualifications of the diviner, the ritual of the diviner known from Neo-Assyrian tablets from Nineveh, and the series multābiltu, are all not only related but interlinked, since passages from multābiltu 16 correspond to some in the other texts. |
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