The Anti-witchcraft Ritual Maqlû

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint / Impressum -- CONTENTS / INHALT -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Bibliographical References -- 1. A Ceremonial Ritual against Witchcraft -- 1.1 Witchcraft, the Witch, and Anti-witchcraft Rituals -- 1.2 Maqlû: An Exceptional Anti-witchcraft Ritual -- 1.3 Textual Form, Transmission, and Date of Maqlû -- 1.4 Synopsis of the Maqlû Ceremony -- Protagonists and ritual space -- Overture -- Burning figurines of the witch -- Sealing the witch's fate -- Burning the witch and her devices -- Burning apotropaic substances -- Extinguishing the fire -- Incense and other apotropaic measures -- Ointments and magic flour circle -- Washing rites -- Finale -- 2. The Cuneiform Manuscripts of Maqlû -- 2.1 The Reconstruction of the Text -- 2.2 Typology of Sources -- 2.3 Overview of Manuscripts -- Tablet I -- Tablet II -- Tablet III -- Tablet IV -- Tablet V -- Tablet VI -- Tablet VII -- Tablet VIII -- Ritual Tablet -- Possible indirect joins not reflected in the manuscript sigla -- 3. Provenance, Date, and Library Contexts of the Maqlû Manuscripts -- 3.1 Manuscripts in the Royal Tablet Collections at Nineveh -- 3.2 Manuscripts from Other Assyrian Libraries -- Aššur -- Sultantepe -- Nimrud -- Unknown provenance -- 3.3 Manuscripts from Babylonian Libraries -- Babylon and Borsippa -- Sippar -- Kiš -- Nippur -- Ur -- Uruk -- Unknown provenance -- 4. The Canonical Text of Maqlû: Variants and Versions -- 4.1 Variation at Section and Line Level -- Rubrics -- Incantations -- Parts of incantations -- Text passages with serial structure -- 4.2 Variation at Word Level -- Sequence of words -- Missing words -- Additional words -- Substituted words -- 4.3 Variation at Morphological Level -- 4.4 Spelling Conventions and Linguistic Characteristics of Maqlû Manuscripts -- Nouns -- Pronouns -- Particles -- Verbs