Ricerc@Sapienza

In this article I present an edition of a Neo-Assyrian tablet from Sultantepe two recipes to cure a man who wets his bed. The first recipe comprises a ritual, the second only a potion; both are followed by an invocation to the goddess Ninmah. Through the analysis of parallel texts (BAM 115; STT 239 and VAT 13682), I discuss the diagnostic (), and the two recipes, focusing on the ritual. In the conclusion I advance the hypothesis that the mythical background of the ritual as well as the invocation is the Sumerian myth Enki and Ninmah, where one of the man created by the goddess is a man who discharge urine.