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Sánchez Muñoz, Daniel 2026-01-18T15:47:20Z 2026-01-18T15:47:20Z 2025 Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2025, vol. 84, n. 1, p. 65-76 0022-2968 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81760 https://doi.org/10.1086/734694 65 1 76 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 84 Producción Científica This article deals with the identification of some “hands” related to the lilissu Mesopotamian cultic kettledrum. So far, Assyriologists have identified them in four different ways: as handles, tuning bolts, drumsticks, or as ritual figurines placed inside the kettle of this drum. After philological, iconographic, musicological, and crosscultural evaluations, this article concludes that the identification with figurines is the most appropriate. Specifically, it is argued here that these hands would represent the gods sent to the underworld by Marduk when he became the new divine ruler of the universe. Taking advantage of this debate, the present article also argues that some “ears” of the lilissu would denote handles that helped the kalû-priest to lift and play the drum while standing. Contrato Posdoctoral Margarita Salas MS2021-24 application/pdf eng The University of Chicago Press Journals info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Arqueomusicología Lengua acadia Epigrafía cuneiforme Mesopotamia Timbales Rituales Mesopotamia Comentarios rituales Timbales Período Tardobabilónico Manos Orejas 6203.06 Música, Musicología 55 Historia 5502 Historia General 5101.10 Religión 5506.21 Historia de las Religiones 5101 Antropología Cultural 5505.10 Filología 5505.03 Epigrafía 5504.01 Historia Antigua 5505.01 Arqueología 6202.01 Crítica de Textos 5506.13 Historia de la Literatura Identifying the “hands” (and the “ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu-kettledrum info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734694 SI