Martin Worthington: Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. (The Ancient World.) xxxii, 489 pp. London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978 1 138 38892 5.

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l-man ḏ-ruha l-giṭatlh). A new edition of the Phylactery for Rue is being prepared by Bogdan Burtea, Stefanie Rudolf, and the present reviewer.Such comparisons between this corpus and later magical texts can be enlightening and productive, although the authors have unfortunately not sufficiently facilitated this process. The book's meagre indices are a missed opportunity for study of the vocabulary (and grammar) of these older magical texts, since one would have preferred to consult a glossary like that found in N. Heeßel's Babylonischassyrische Diagnostik (2000). Nevertheless, this book offers a treasure-trove of important texts for future study of Akkadian magic, including the 47 texts drawn from Andrew George's 2016 publication, Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts in the Schoyen Collection (CUSAS 32).