The Poem of Erra

ABOT 17 Ancient Near East apparatus Assyriologie attested ball of yarn Bibliotheca Mesopotamica bird birth-stool Boghazköi bowl Buccellati Cagni cedar ceremony cleanse colophon cress cuneiform dealing with birth deity delivery ditto East Volume employed evils fall i.e. female child fragmentary lines Further gall bladder harnai Hattic Incantation Hepat Hittite Birth Rituals Hittite texts Hoffner Introduction itkalziya JNES 27 jug of wine KBo VII 74 KBo XIII 241 KBo XVII KUB XLIV kunzigannahit labor lamb magico-religious male child male goat medicine Middle Hittite period midwife month arrives month they count mother Text mouth new-born Note olive(-woods paragraphs parturition patili-priest takes pegs practitioner pregnancy preserved probably purification purificatory rites red wool rock sanctuary s)he performs sacrifices Sealing separate tablet seventh day šinapši sources and monographs stools Subscription Sumer Sumerian Sun-goddess tablet breaks tamarisk Text 7 Obv Text 7 Rev Thirteenth century copy translation washes woman gives birth young goat zurgi