Browsing Administrative Staff Authors (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Worthington, Martin"

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    • Lilith Unsexed 

      Worthington, Martin (Palgrave, 2023)
      Among the many types of demons which plagued ancient Mesopotamian were those of the líl-type. One of the female members of this type, lilītu, is the ‘ancestor’ of the Jewish demoness Lilith, and indeed Aramaic incantation ...

    • Solving the Starry Symbols of Sargon II 

      Worthington, Martin (2024)
      The city of Khorsabad (ancient Dūr-Šarrukīn), the newly built capital of Sargon II of Assyria, contained multiple instances of a sequence of five images or symbols (lion, bird, bull, tree, plow) which also appeared shortened ...

    • Theatre and Migration in Gilgamesh 

      Worthington, Martin (Palgrave, 2023)
      Gilgamesh is not a play, and it does not explicitly deal with migration in the sense of ‘movements by groups’ (indeed, it is generally less concerned with groups than with individuals). And yet, ‘theatre’ and ‘migration’ ...