extispicy?!!
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
First off, it was difficult to learn and then shed the jargon. The study of ancient Mesopotamia is filled with esoteric terms that are hard to come to grips with like extispicy, protasis, omen text, hapax logomenon.
I had studied philosophy so half the time, I was like WHAT ARE WE SAYING PLS?
I had studied philosophy so half the time, I was like WHAT ARE WE SAYING PLS?
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This term (plural: protases) describes a conditional clause, a subordinate clause beginning with "if." For example, Mesopotamian omens and laws are constructed in the following way: "If X, then Y".