Description
1896. This paintings is “The Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand,” and represents the cuneiform texts of a bunch of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations, and whole vocabulary from capsules of the Kuyunjik collections preserved within the British Museum. Contents: Prayers addressed to: Deities; Gods; Goddesses; Astral Deities; Prayers towards the evils; Vocabulary.