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| | The Schoyen Collection: 10. Magical literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | MS in Babylonian on red jasper, Babylonia, 1000-600 BC, 1 plaque, 6,2x4,7x1,2 cm, single column, 10 lines of monumental cuneiform script, 5 illustrations, the main illustration showing the female demon Lamashtu standing on the back of a horse, suckling a piglet and a whelp and with a snake in each hand, with a loop handle. |
 | | A likeness of Lamashtu was placed in a little boat together with items of female apparel and offerings to distract her attention. |
 | | The model boat was then placed in the swift-flowing Tigris River, and she was borne away to the Underworld, leaving mankind in peace. |
| www.nb.no /baser/schoyen/5/5.12 (2308 words) |
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