At the Dawn of History : : Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. N. Postgate / / ed. by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone, Martin Worthington.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Gailani Werr, Lamia,; Besnier, Marie-Françoise,; Biggs, Robert,; Brisch, Nicole,; Brown, David,; Calderbank, Daniel,; Chen, Changhong,; Colantoni, Carlo,; Collon, Dominique,; Crawford, Harriet,; Curtis, John,; Dalley, Stephanie,; Dolores Casero Chamorro, María,; Fales, Frederick Mario,; Fincke, Jeanette C.,; Freydank, Helmut,; Gates, Marie-Henriette,; Hawkins, David,; Iamoni, Marco,; Jackson, Mark,; Khan, Geoffrey,; Kühne, Hartmut,; Larsen, Mogens Trolle,; Liverani, Mario,; Llop-Raduà, Jaume,; Luukko, Mikko,; Mac-Ginnis, John,; Martin, Harriet,; Matthews, Roger,; Matthews, Wendy,; McMahon, Augusta,; Moon, Jane,; Parpola, Simo,; Pollock, Susan,; Radner, Karen,; Reade, Julian,; Reynolds, Frances,; Robson, Eleanor,; Seidl, Ursula,; Sharlach, T. M.,; Shibata, Daisuke,; Stein, Diana,; Steinkeller, Piotr,; Stone, Elizabeth C.,; Streck, Michael P.,; Sweeney, Naoíse Mac,; Tsouparopoulou, Christina,; Tudeau, Johanna,; Van Buylaere, Greta,; Veenhof, Klaas R.,; Wang, Xianhua,; Watanabe, Chikako E.,; Watson, Wilfred G. E.,; Weeden, Mark,; Wilcke, Claus,; Zimansky, Paul,; Şerifoğlu, Tevfik Emre,
• HerausgeberIn: Heffron, Yağmur,; Stone, Adam,; Worthington, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (843 p.)

Nearly 50 students, colleagues, and friends of Nicholas Postgate join in tribute to an Assyriologist and Archaeologist who has had a profound influence on both disciplines. His work and scholarship are strongly felt in Iraq, where he was the Director of the British School of Archaeology, in the United Kingdom, where he is Emeritus Professor of Assyriology in the University of Cambridge, and in the subject internationally. He has fostered close collaboration with colleagues in Turkey and Iraq, where he has been involved in archaeological investigation, always seeking to meld the study of texts with that of material remains.The essays embrace the full range of Postgate’s interests, including government and administration, art history, population studies, the economy, religion and divination, foodstuffs, ceramics, and Akkadian and Sumerian language—in a word, all of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface -- Nicholas Postgate’s Publications (up to 2016) -- A Fragment of a Stele from Umma -- In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards -- The Šu-Suen Year 9 sa2-du11 ku5-ra2 Flour 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 the Early 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 Service of 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 from the British Museum’s Tablet Collection -- The Governors of Halzi-atbari in 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 Does It Take to Put Out the Rubbish? -- Volume 2 -- The Location of Raṣappa -- Making Fire in Uruk-Period Abu Salabikh -- A Neo-Assyrian Legal Document from 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 Heiligtum der 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 großen Inschrift 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 Ebabbar of Sippar -- Prayer and Praise in the City of Assur