At the dawn of history: ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of J. N. Postgate
Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Nicholas Postgate's Publications -- A Fragment of a Stele from Umma -- In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards . . . -- The Šu-Suen Year 9 sa2-du11 ku5-ra2Flour Dossier from Puzriš-Dagan -- To Eat Like a God: Religion and Economy in Old Babylonian Nippur --...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Festschrift |
| Language: | English |
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Winona Lake, IN
Eisenbrauns
2016
Winona Lake, IN |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4857048
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| Author Notes: | edited by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone, and Martin Worthington |
| Summary: | Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Nicholas Postgate's Publications -- A Fragment of a Stele from Umma -- In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards . . . -- The Šu-Suen Year 9 sa2-du11 ku5-ra2Flour Dossier from Puzriš-Dagan -- To Eat Like a God: Religion and Economy in Old Babylonian Nippur -- Remarks on the Earliest History of Horoscopy -- A Ceramic Assemblage of theEarly Literate Periods from Sumer -- Stolen, Not Given? -- Are We Any Closer to Establishing How Many Sumerians per Hectare?Recent Approaches to Understanding the Spatial Dynamics of Populations in Ancient Mesopotamian Cities -- New Perspectives on 'Early Mesopotamia' -- Of Arches, Vaults and Domes -- Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (III): "Arameans" and Related Tribalists -- Instruktionen Tukultī-Ninurtas I. -- Gods, Temples, and Cult at the Serviceof the Early Hittite State -- The Ending of the Çineköy Inscription -- A New Palatial Ware or a Case of Imitation of Egyptian Pottery? The Brownish Red Slip (BRS) from Qatna and Its Significance within the Northern Levantine Ceramic Tradition of the Mid-Second Millennium BC -- Building on the Past: Gertrude Bell and the Transformation of Space in the Karadağ -- Studies in the Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic -- The Temple of Salmānu at Dūr-Katlimmu, Nergal of Hubšalum, and Nergal-ereš -- Between Slavery and Freedom -- The King and His Army -- Two Middle Assyrian Delivery Notes fromthe British Museum's Tablet Collection -- The Governors of Halzi-atbariin the Neo-Assyrian Period -- Never the Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages -- Piecing the Jigsaw . . . -- A Palace for the King of Ereš? Evidence from the Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh, South Iraq -- How Many Sumerians DoesIt Take to Put Out the Rubbish? -- The Location of Raṣappa -- Making Fire in Uruk-Period Abu Salabikh A Neo-Assyrian Legal Documentfrom Tell Sitak -- The Assyrian Palace at Nabi Yunus, Nineveh -- The Socio-Economics of Cuneiform Scholarship after the 'End of Archives': Views from Borsippa and Uruk -- Eine Königskette im Heiligtumder Ištar von Assur -- On the Tablet Trail: Herdsmen's Employment for Royal Wives in the Ur III Period -- An Expedition of King Shalmaneser I and Prince Tukultī-Ninurta to Carchemish -- The Role of Stimulants in Early Near Eastern Society: Insights through Artifacts and Texts -- An Estimate of the Population of the City of Umma in Ur III Times -- How Many Mesopotamians per Hectare? -- The Terminology for Times of the Day in Akkadian -- 'Counter-Archaeology': Putting the Ur III Drehem Archives Back in the Ground -- Meaning in Perspective: Some Akkadian Terms for 'Foundation'- -uššu, temennu, išdu, duruššu- -- Nergal-eṭir's Correspondence in the Light of BM 30205, and a Preliminary Edition of BM 36543, another Fragmentary Neo-Assyrian Letter in the Babylon Collection of the British Museum -- Seven Debt-Notes of Anatolians from Ancient Kanesh -- Oracle Bones at the Sichuan University Museum -- Association of the Dog with Healing Power in Mesopotamia -- Ugaritic Military Terms in the Light of Comparative Linguistics -- Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism -- Ein dritter Backstein mit der großenInschrift des Königs Takil-ilissu von Malgûm und der Tonnagel des Ipiq-Ištar -- Assur among the Gods of Urartu -- Some Bronze Stamp Seals of Achaemenid Date -- Assyrians after the Fall: Evidence from the Ebabbara of Sippar -- Prayer and Praise in the City of Assur |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781575064741 |