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A Medico-Magical Text from the Otago Tablets, Dunedin New Zealand

2016; De Gruyter; Volume: 106; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1515/za-2016-0015

1613-1150

Peter Zilberg, Wayne Horowitz,

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Abstract: Published here for the first time is the jewel of the cuneiform tablet collection of the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. This tablet, E2014.62 preserves a rather unique exemplar of the medico-magical corpus. The obverse gives prescriptions against Lamaštu while the reverse preserves what seem to be a related ritual and accompanying incantations. The very bottom of the reverse provides a drawing of a human-type figure with a goat-like head, which we tentatively identify with “an oath with the feet of a goat”.