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