The Assyrian Dream Book

Ziqiqu

Anonymous / tradition · c. 7th century BC (Ashurbanipal's library copies; the dream-omen tradition itself is older) · Nineveh (Iraq) · science

An eleven-tablet compendium argues that dreams are as legible and as systematically decodable as any other omen, cataloguing thousands of specific dream images, sent by the god Ziqiqu, against their fixed, predetermined meanings.