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BM 39279, another "Astral Magic" text, also called the "Exorcist's Almanac" (BRM IV 19 and 20, STT 300, LBAT 1626, SpTU V 243 and CBS 562)


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Of texts linking (the incantations for) diseases and symptoms with time, the earliest exemplar is a Neo-Assyrian copy from.uzirina (STT 300). The rest are Late Babylonian copies from Uruk (BRM IV 19 and 20, SpTU V 243), Babylon (LBAT 1626) and an unidentified Babylonian site (CBS 562). BM 39279*, a Late Babylonian fragment from Babylon, is such a text. Two groups, differing in the number and combination of the selected elements, can be identified from the structure of the entries.

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Fincke, J., (2021) “BM 39279, another "Astral Magic" text, also called the "Exorcist's Almanac" (BRM IV 19 and 20, STT 300, LBAT 1626, SpTU V 243 and CBS 562)”, Akkadica 142(1), 79–92. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/akkadica.99675

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