Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena

This volume presents transcriptions, translations with a full commentary of 23 Ur III incantations from Nippur now held in a collection in Jena. Geller here completes work begun by the late van Dijk in editing the tablets which were composed to combat the work of demons. The incantations cover a whole range of medical ailments and afflictions including headaches, childbirth, eye disease, paralysis, snakebite and cattle disease. In his introduction Geller considers the ways in which Ur III incantations differ from earlier and later examples. Includes a glossary and photographs of the tablets.