BABYLONIAN MAGIC AND SORCERY
Book Details + Condition: Samuel Weiser (York Beach, ME). 2000. Hardcover. 275 pages. Includes 75 pages of Cuneiform plates to end of text. Brown cloth cover with gilt text.Treatise by English archaeologist Leonard William King on the magic and rituals of ancient Assyria and its states, including Babylon, first published in 1896. Subtitled, "The Cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations, and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik Collections preserved in the British Museum." Firm binding; light shelf wear, with some discoloration; highlighting to first 15 pages (title page, Introduction and Preface), with 3 text pages of underlining.
