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Anzû = death = donkey (1)

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 		Keywords
medicine
Mesopotamia
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
Sakikku Series 7:
If you hear the patient’s cry, and it is like the braying of a donkey, he will die [within] one day - as was said, “death is the face of Anzû”; Anzû = anšû = donkey.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Sakikku Series 7

Bibliography

George 1991, 157George, Andrew R. “Babylonian Texts from the Folios of Sydney Smith. Part 2: Prognostic and Diagnostic Omens, Tablet I.” Revue d'Assyriologie 85 (1991) 137-167.

Amar Annus


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