Zu-buru-dabbeda

Zu-buru-dabbeda, inscribed zú-buru₅-dib-bé-da, is the most complete exemplar of a small body of similarly themed texts from ancient Mesopotamia.^[1] Composed in Akkadian, it is a compendium of incantations against field pests such as locusts, grasshoppers, insect larvae, weevils and other vermin, the creatures known as the "great dogs of Ninkilim". Authorship credited to a certain Papsukkal-ša-iqbû-ul-inni, a scholar and cleric of Babylon and Borsippa.

^ A. R. George (1999). "The Dogs of Ninkilim: Magic against field pests in ancient Mesopotamia". Landwirtschaft im alten Mesopotamien – Ausgewählte Vorträge der XLI. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin 4.–8.7. 1994. pp. 291–99.

[1] A. R. George (1999). "The Dogs of Ninkilim: Magic against field pests in ancient Mesopotamia". Landwirtschaft im alten Mesopotamien – Ausgewählte Vorträge der XLI. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin 4.–8.7. 1994. pp. 291–99.

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