An Aramaic-Inscribed Lamaštu Amulet from Zincirli

In the final volume of excavation reports from the Felix von Luschan expedition to Zincirli, Turkey, the editor, Walter Andrae, provided a brief iconographic description and an imperfect photograph of an Aramaic-inscribed Lamaštu amulet from the site. The Old Aramaic inscription was, however, largel...

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Auteurs: Degrado, Jessie (Auteur) ; Richey, Matthew (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: The University of Chicago Press 2017
Dans: Bulletin of ASOR
Année: 2017, Numéro: 377, Pages: 107-133
RelBib Classification:BC Religions du Proche-Orient ancien
HH Archéologie
KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord
TC Époque pré-chrétienne
Sujets non-standardisés:B EXCAVATION
B Old Aramaic
B Inscriptions
B Mesopotamian demonology
B Onomastics
B Zincirli
B Lamaštu
B ZINCIRLI (Gaziantep Ili, Turkey)
B ORTHOGRAPHY & spelling
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Résumé:In the final volume of excavation reports from the Felix von Luschan expedition to Zincirli, Turkey, the editor, Walter Andrae, provided a brief iconographic description and an imperfect photograph of an Aramaic-inscribed Lamaštu amulet from the site. The Old Aramaic inscription was, however, largely invisible in the photograph, and the epigraph went untranscribed and untranslated in this and all subsequent mentions. The present article represents a full edition and discussion of the amulet and its inscription on the basis of our examination of the object at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. This artifact represents the only known instance of a local Aramaic script's use on an amulet dominated by Mesopotamian iconographic motifs, notably including Lamaštu. It is an important witness to cultural contact and combination in an Aramaic/Neo-Hittite city-state of the 9th-8th centuries b.c.e. Due to the general paucity of Old Aramaic inscriptions, the epigraph also represents a significant addition to the broader extant corpus and contributes important data for understanding Old Aramaic palaeography, orthography, and onomastics.
ISSN:2161-8062
Contient:Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.377.0107