In this article I surveys Sumerian and Akkadian childbirth incantations from the III and II mill. BCE Mesopotamia. In particular, I analyze metaphors of conception and birth, discussing common and diffused topics (the woman associated to the cow, the open/closed way, the boat).

Metafore del parto negli scongiuri dell’antica Mesopotamia / Verderame, Lorenzo. - (2020), pp. 3-21. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Workshop “Pregnancies, Childbirths, and Religions: Rituals, Normative Perspectives, and Individual Appropriations. A CrossCultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective from Antiquity to the Present” tenutosi a Erfurt).

Metafore del parto negli scongiuri dell’antica Mesopotamia

Verderame, Lorenzo
2020

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In this article I surveys Sumerian and Akkadian childbirth incantations from the III and II mill. BCE Mesopotamia. In particular, I analyze metaphors of conception and birth, discussing common and diffused topics (the woman associated to the cow, the open/closed way, the boat).
2020
International Workshop “Pregnancies, Childbirths, and Religions: Rituals, Normative Perspectives, and Individual Appropriations. A CrossCultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective from Antiquity to the Present”
Mesopotamia; cuneiform; incantations; Sumerian; Akkadian; metaphors
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Metafore del parto negli scongiuri dell’antica Mesopotamia / Verderame, Lorenzo. - (2020), pp. 3-21. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Workshop “Pregnancies, Childbirths, and Religions: Rituals, Normative Perspectives, and Individual Appropriations. A CrossCultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective from Antiquity to the Present” tenutosi a Erfurt).
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