Articles and Shorter Notices by Ludovica Cecilia
Published in Journal of Cuneiform Studies 73 (2021), pp. 211-245.
The article presents editions of all known texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean preben... more The article presents editions of all known texts belonging to the archive of the Sipparean prebendary Marduk-bēlšunu, son of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, that is, the Balīḫû archive. It is the second part of a series of articles that aims to make available the so-called satellite archives of the Ṣāḫiṭ-ginê A archive (“Mardukrēmanni archive”) and related and unrelated smaller archives from Sippar, all dating to the long sixth century BCE.
Altorientalische Forschungen 46(2): 204–213, 2019
This article treats a composition that was probably dedicated to Nergal, a god with a long cultic... more This article treats a composition that was probably dedicated to Nergal, a god with a long cultic tradition in ancient Mesopotamia who was mainly related to war and death. The text was first edited by Böhl (1949; 1953: 207-216, 496-497), followed by Ebeling (1953: 116-117). Later, Seux (1976: 85-88) and Foster (2005: 708-709) translated and commented upon it. I will present a new reading of the invocation on the tablet's upper edge, which confirms that the tablet originated in Uruk during the Hellenistic period. Furthermore, I will discuss the many Neo-Babylonian and Late Babylonian grammatical elements of this composition. The high frequency of these elements, typical of the vernacular language, is unusual for a literary text and suggests that not only the tablet, but also the composition of the text stems from the first millennium BCE, and perhaps, just like the tablet, from Hellenistic Uruk. The purpose of this contribution is, therefore, to show through an analysis of this text, that the conservative and poetic literary language was reworked and adapted to the cultural situation of the late period in Mesopotamian literary production.
Conference Presentations by Ludovica Cecilia
Editing the archive in full , which contributes to the ever growing body of published Neo-Babylon... more Editing the archive in full , which contributes to the ever growing body of published Neo-Babylonian texts and their understanding. Reconstructing a detailed history of the Ilia A family and their proprietary portfolios (micro-level). Strengthening our knowledge of the Neo-Babylonian socioeconomic landscape by placing the protagonists of the archive in their social, economic and political environments (macro-level).
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Articles and Shorter Notices by Ludovica Cecilia
Conference Presentations by Ludovica Cecilia
Talks by Ludovica Cecilia