TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgyptandMesopotamia Culture and History of the Ancient Near East FoundingEditor M.H.E.Weippert Editor-in-Chief JonathanStökl Editors EckartFrahm W.RandallGarr B.Halpern TheoP.J.vandenHout LeslieAnneWarden IreneJ.Winter volume 116 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/chan The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Editedby Shih-WeiHsu JaumeLlopRaduà LEIDEN | BOSTON LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Hsu,Shih-Wei,editor.|Llop-Raduà,Jaume,editor. Title:TheexpressionofemotionsinancientEgyptandMesopotamia/editedby Shih-WeiHsu,JaumeLlopRaduà. Othertitles:CultureandhistoryoftheancientNearEast;116. Description:Boston:Brill,2020.|Series:CultureandhistoryoftheancientNear East,15662055;116|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 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Contents NotesonContributors ix 1 TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgyptandMesopotamia:An Introduction 1 Shih-WeiHsuandJaumeLlopRaduà Part 1 TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgypt 2 HistoryofHorror:ADiachronicOverviewofFear(s)inAncientEgyptian Texts 25 SvenEicke 3 “IWishICouldDie”:DepressioninAncientEgypt 52 Shih-WeiHsu 4 RoyalRageandPrivateAngerinAncientEgypt 88 InesKöhler 5 EverybodyHurts:UnderstandingandVisualizingPaininAncient Egypt 103 TaraPrakash 6 “WithoutYouIAmanOrphan”:ExploringEmotionandInterpersonal PragmaticsintheLateRamessideLetters 126 KimRidealgh 7 IndexesofEmotionsinPianchy’sGreatStelawithSomeCultural Comparisons 144 AnthonySpalinger 8 “DoNotCastanEyeonAnotherOne’sGoods…!”:AspectsofEnvy, JealousyandGreedinAncientEgypt 169 AlexandraVerbovsek vi contents Part 2 TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientMesopotamia 9 DepressionattheRoyalCourtsofEsarhaddonandAssurbanipal 201 GretaVanBuylaere 10 ShapingGender,ShapingEmotions:OntheMutualConstructionof GenderIdentitiesandEmotionalRolesinAncientMesopotamia 220 AgnèsGarcia-Ventura 11 EmotionsandTheirExpressioninaReligiousHistoricalPerspectivein AncientMesopotamia 238 MargaretJaques 12 ExpressionsofJoyandHappinessinNeo-Assyrian 255 MikkoLuukko 13 FromLandscapetoRitualPerformances:EmotionsinSumerian Literature 283 Anne-CarolineRenduLoisel 14 JealousyinAkkadianLoveLiterature:ZarpanītuintheDivineLove Lyrics 306 RocíoDaRiva 15 VisibleDeathandAudibleDistress:ThePersonificationofDeath(Mūtu) andAssociatedEmotionsasInherentConditionsofLifeinAkkadian Sources 335 IreneSibbing-Plantholt 16 GilgameshandEmotionalExcess:TheKingwithoutCounselintheSB GilgameshEpic 390 KarenSonik 17 PoundingHeartsandBurningLivers:The“SentimentalBody”in MesopotamianMedicineandLiterature 410 UlrikeSteinert contents vii 18 FearinAkkadianTexts:NewDigitalPerspectivesonLexical Semantics 470 SaanaSvärd,TeroAlstola,HeidiJauhiainen,AleksiSahalaand KristerLindén IndexofSources 503 IndexofWords 509 IndexofSubjectsandNames 514 Notes on Contributors TeroAlstola UniversityofHelsinki,Finland [email protected] GretaVanBuylaere WürzburgUniversity,Germany [email protected] SvenEicke UniversityofCologne,Germany [email protected] AgnèsGarcia-Ventura IPOA,UniversitatdeBarcelona,Spain [email protected] Shih-WeiHsu NankaiUniversity,Tianjin,P.R.China [email protected] MargaretJaques UniversityofZurich,Switzerland [email protected] HeidiJauhiainen UniversityofHelsinki,Finland [email protected] InesKöhler FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany [email protected] KristerLindén UniversityofHelsinki,Finland [email protected] x notes on contributors JaumeLlopRaduà UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Spain [email protected] MikkoLuukko UniversityofHelsinki,Finland [email protected] IreneSibbing-Plantholt FreieUniversitätBerlin,Germany [email protected] TaraPrakash CollegeofCharleston,USA [email protected] Anne-CarolineRenduLoisel UniversityofStrasburg,UMR7044ArcHiMedE,France [email protected] KimRidealgh UniversityofEastAnglia,UK [email protected] RocíoDaRiva UniversityofBarcelona,Spain [email protected] AleksiSahala UniversityofHelsinki,Finland [email protected] KarenSonik AuburnUniversity,USA [email protected] AnthonySpalinger UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand [email protected]