Entity
Apkallu
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Akkadian word for sage; lists,images and roles require their own textual contexts.
Text
CuneiformCuneiformWriting with wedge-shaped signs, developed from Mesopotamian recording traditions and used for several languages from the third millennium BCE.Glossary · Click to read the explanation indexes record several forms and writings. RitualRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation texts employ representations of sages to protect houses. The word does not merge every figure into one individual or identify every winged form with a Watcher. The modern diagram distinguishes contexts; it is neither an ancient artifact nor a proven genealogy between beings. [1] [2]
References and notes
- Indexed lexical entry; full opening timed out. ORACC TSAE Akkadian apkallu lexical index Return to the text ↑
- Pages63,65–67,105–109 and title; selected visual reading. F.A.M.Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts (1992) Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Apkallu», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/apkallu