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Ereškigal in Greek texts (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery

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Ereškigal
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Papyri from Egypt

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The Sumerian name of the goddess of the underworld, Ereškigal, travelled from Mesopotamia to Hellenistic Egypt and on to Carthage. Ereskhigal is the name of an infernal goddess who commonly appears in later Greek defixions and magical papyri. This is one of the most exact transcriptions from Sumerian into Greek. Ereskhigal occurs still only on the texts of imperial era, but the period of borrowing may well be much earlier.

Bibliography

Burkert 1992, 68Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.

Amar Annus


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