Markham Geller's Evil Demons, published in the State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts series in 2007, is the standard critical edition of the sixteen-tablet canonical Akkadian Utukku Lemnutu exorcistic series, with cuneiform text, transliteration, translation and glossary. Geller is a leading Assyriologist specialising in Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Its strength is that it is the first complete modern edition of the full canonical series, superseding scattered partial editions of individual tablets. Its limit is that it is a philological critical edition rather than a general account of Mesopotamian religion, so a claim about the wider ritual or religious context needs a source addressing that context directly.
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Tier one: the standard critical edition of the sixteen tablet canonical Akkadian Utukku Lemnutu exorcistic series, by a leading Assyriologist, the first complete modern edition superseding scattered partial editions. Its limit is that it is a philological critical edition rather than a general account of Mesopotamian religion, so a claim about the wider ritual context needs a source addressing that context directly. NotesStandard critical edition of the sixteen-tablet canonical Akkadian Utukku Lemnutu exorcistic series, with transliteration and translation.
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AuthorMarkham J. Geller
PublisherState Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Helsinki
Publication Year2007
Source TypeCritical edition
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Incantations, Spells & Curses, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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9Incantations, Spells & Curses
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