Lob Der Istar: Gebet Und Ritual an Die Altbabylonische Venusgöttin [German]

by Groneberg

This volume "Praise to Istar" contains three quite distinct Old-Babylonian prayers to the fertility-and-war goddess. Two of these texts, one from the Louvre Museum, the other from the Irak Museum in Bagdad, are edited for the first time. The third is a thorough revision and expansion of the author's 1981 edition of the Agushaya hymn. Although the contents of the texts are considerably different, the three are thematically related and share the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 9056930060
• ISBN13: 9789056930066
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.7"