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B 158 is a Seleucid-period manuscript of the bilingual Balaĝ prayer Ukkin-ta eš-bar til-la. The tablet, which was found at Babylon in 1902 and is edited here for the first time, contains major portions of text that have hitherto been unknown. The prayer is suffused with first-millennium Nabû theology and contains a unique literary request for revenge against the enemy in the mountain lands. The findspot of B 158 may shed light on the provenance of the Late Babylonian kalûtu library of the Nanna-utu family.

Based on first-millennium cuneiform manuscripts from Aššur, Babylon, and Uruk, this article offers an edition of a ritual against an illness conceptualized as the demon ‘Any Evil’. The text sheds light on how the catch-all figure Any Evil corresponds to the idea of a universal cure for any physical ailment, and how the rhetoric of the incantation articulates this relationship and facilitates the active participation of the patient. The ritual instructions of this and a closely related text show that Any Evil is envisaged as a bull-headed, male demon. This points to an adaptation of motifs that are typically associated with ghosts in ancient Mesopotamian thought and raises questions concerning the pictorial representation of Any Evil and its conceptual foundations.

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Th 1905–4–9, 67 (BM 98561) is a small, almost completely preserved tablet from Nineveh inscribed in Babylonian script. Study of the palaeography and find-spot suggest a pre-7th century date of the tablet. The tablet contains two rituals: one for protecting the king in his palace, and a second for protection on a journey or military campaign. The first ritual uses an incantation in garbled Sumerian addressed to the reed. The Akkadian incantations associated with the second ritual are two short poems. The first evokes the image of the traveller who is exposed to the dangers of the wild; the second describes the king on campaign as an overpowering warrior who is supported by the gods.

L’article presente deux fragments de tablettes hittites qui etaient jusqu’a present dans une collection particuliere. Le premier concerne le culte de la Deesse Huwassanna, le second comporte une priere a la deesse solaire d’Arinna.