The Pennsylvania orientalist assembles what the cuneiform tablets then revealed about Mesopotamian belief. He describes the land and its peoples, the pantheon before and after Hammurabi, the goddesses, Gudea’s gods, the temple lists, and the vast literature of omens, where the shape of a newborn colt could foretell a ruined stall or an invading enemy.
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