Repetition, Parallelism and Creativity: An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition

Project Information

REPAC

Grant agreement ID: 803060

DOI

10.3030/803060

Project closed

EC signature date 31 August 2018

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 494 198,00

EU contribution

€ 1 494 198,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Parallelism and Analogical Thought in Babylonian Poetry. Case Studies from Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, the Babylonian Theodicy, and the Šamaš Hymn

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 112, 2022, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik

Unity Through Poetry. The Development of Šurpu IV

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 112, 2022, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik

kurāru ‘lumpy lesions’

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Le Journal des Médicines Cunéiformes, Issue 40, 2022, Page(s) 46-52, ISSN 1761-0583
Publisher: Azugal

The Interpretation of Colours in First Millennium Extispicy and Celestial Omen Texts

Author(s): Lucrezia Menicatti
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 114, 2024, Page(s) 235-262, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Selbstverlag Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.589

Ninurta bēl nignakki no more

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 58-59, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Société pour l’étude du Proche-Orient

The Interplay of Form and Meaning in Babylonian Poetry: A New Reading and Interpretation of the Babylonian Theodicy’s Ending

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 114, 2024, Page(s) 159-214, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: SELBSTVERLAG DES INSTITUTS FÜR ORIENTALISTIK
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.587

Ad astra: Graphic Signalling in the Acrostic Hymn of Nebuchadnezzar II (BM 55469)

Author(s): Martina Schmidl
Published in: Altorientalische Forschungen, Issue 48/2, 2021, Page(s) 318-326, ISSN 2196-6761
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/aofo-2021-0021

Ronnie Barker of Babylonia: Subliminal Magic in a Chain Incantation

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 114, 2024, Page(s) 323-349, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: SELBSTVERLAG DES INSTITUTS FÜR ORIENTALISTIK
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.588

Introduction to 'Writing Orality'

Author(s): Bernardo Ballesteros, Domenico Giordani, Jordan Miller, James Parkhouse, Flaminia Pischedda
Published in: Manuscript and Text Cultures, Issue 2 (2), 2024, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2752-3462
Publisher: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
DOI: 10.56004/v2.2int

Explanatory texts related to the extispicy series Bārûtu: BM 131658 joins K 10877 (Koch 2005, 412-428 no. 65 ms. B)

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 4, 2020, Page(s) 253-255, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Société pour l’étude du Proche-Orient ancien

The Donkey of Anšan: A Rhino in Mesopotamia? Notes on the Construction of Meaning in a Bilingual Proverb...

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Journal of Ancient Civilizations, Issue 37/1, 2022, ISSN 1004-9371
Publisher: The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University
DOI: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2022.02.013

Ancient Mesopotamian Divinatory Series from the British Museum: New Texts and Joins

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Issue 73, 2021, Page(s) 193-209, ISSN 0022-0256
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/714660

<i>Šurpu</i>: The Missing Tablet

Author(s): Frank Simons
Published in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Issue 83, 2024, Page(s) 277-294, ISSN 0022-2968
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/732100

Literature as Scholarship: Some Reflections on Repetition with Variation and the Construction of Meaning in the Šamaš Hymn 112-117

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambiente e culture del vicino oriente antico, Issue 16, 2019, Page(s) 159-182, ISSN 2036-5845
Publisher: LoGisma
DOI: 10.1400/278202

A scribal device in oral clothing: functions of formulaic language in early Chinese divinatory texts

Author(s): Flaminia Pischedda
Published in: Manuscript and Text Cultures, Issue 2 (2), 2024, Page(s) 93-118, ISSN 2752-3462
Publisher: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
DOI: 10.56004/v2.2fp

Written on the Lungs: The Neo-Assyrian Lung Model Rm 620 and Ancient Mesopotamian Lung Divination

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Die Welt des Orients, Issue 51, 2021, Page(s) 181-220, ISSN 0043-2547
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage
DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2021.51.2.181

News on Enūma Anu Enlil 47 and its Nuzi forerunner

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambiente e culture del vicino oriente antico, Issue 17, 2020, Page(s) 211-221, ISSN 1971-8608
Publisher: LoGisma Editore
DOI: 10.1400/283202

Top – Middle – Base. A System of Omen Sequencing and its Interpretation in Barûtu Chapter 3 and in Old Babylonian Precursors

Author(s): Lucrezia Menicatti
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 112, 2022, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik

YOS 3, 26 – A letter from the early reign of Nebuchadnezzar II from the temple of Amurru in the Sealand

Author(s): Martina Schmidl
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 4, 2020, Page(s) 262-265, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Société pour l’Étude du Proche-Orient Ancien

Mirror, Mirror. Some Remarks on Structuring Devices in the Babylonian Fürstenspiegel

Author(s): Martina Schmidl
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 112, 2022, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Selbsverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik

Book chapters (2)

L’eroe e l’effeminato: osservazioni sul corpo ideale, il corpo normale e il corpo disabile nell’antica Mesopotamia

Author(s): Nicla De Zorzi
Published in: Corpi e saperi: Riflessioni sulla trasmissione della conoscenza (Studi e Ricerche), Issue 10, 2019, Page(s) 25-52, ISBN 9788833641584
Publisher: Pendragon

Bang a Gong (Demons Gone): The Mighty Copper and Magic with Automatic Consent

Author(s): Francis Simons
Published in: Legitimising Magic: Strategies and Practices in Ancient Mesopotamia, 2024, Page(s) 77-90
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004687417_007