Akkadian Evil Eye Incantations from Assur

Abstract

During the course of preparing an article on Sumerian ‘evil eye’ incantations, it appeared that ‘igi ḫul’ in Sumerian was more likely to mean ‘evil face’ in most instances in the Sumerian incantations, rather than ‘evil eye’. Despite the fact that the Sumerian ‘igi ḫul’ and Akkadian īnu lemuttu compositions represent the same genre of incantations, with some parallel phrases, nevertheless the fundamental nature of the incantations differs. Furthermore, the first millennium evidence for Akkadian ‘evil eye’ incantations was based mostly upon two Assur tablets in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, which had been edited by E. Ebeling and further discussed by M. L. Thomsen and J. N. Ford, but never copied or collated. Since collation of the tablets indicated many errors in the published editions of these texts, a copy and re-edition of the tablets is briefly presented here.

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