This local glossary is a shelf-specific companion to the central Good Works Glossary.

Shelf Terms

Akkadian - The Semitic language of Babylonia and Assyria; the main language of Babylonian epics, prayers, omens, and scholarly texts.

Standard Babylonian - The learned literary dialect used for many first-millennium Akkadian compositions.

Namburbi - An apotropaic ritual for undoing the evil consequence of an omen.

Shuilla - A lifted-hand prayer addressed to a deity.

Omen series - A scholarly corpus for reading divine signs in dreams, stars, births, bodies, rivers, cities, and other phenomena.

Marduk theology - The Babylonian elevation of Marduk, patron of Babylon, into supreme divine kingship.