Teratomancy at Tigunanum

Autor(en)

Nicla De Zorzi

Abstrakt

This article examines the inner structure, building principles, and hermeneutic code of a group of late Middle Bronze age teratomantic tablets from Tigunānum in northern Mesopotamia. While in the final evaluation, the Tigunānum
teratomantic corpus is of southern Babylonian inspiration, it represents a very specific local reworking of this tradition.This article posits as its distinctive feature the use of a strongly gendered imagery and language that reflect
the worldview of an extremely androcentric and militarized society. It also demonstrates a connection between the cultural conceptions underlying the Tigunānum omen corpus and the Old Hittite sphere, the mid-second-millennium world of northern Mesopotamia, and later Assyria.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Orientalistik

Journal

Journal of Cuneiform Studies

Band

69

Seiten

125-150

Anzahl der Seiten

26

ISSN

0022-0256

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602056 Altorientalistik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f2c7e22d-d883-4f48-9879-8638fde994b7