Opening the tablet box : : Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster /

Opening the tablet box : : Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster / / edited by Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky.

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This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for hi...

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Superior document:Culture and history of the ancient Near East, vol. 42
TeilnehmendeR:
Foster, Benjamin R.
Melville, Sarah C.
Slotsky, Alice Louise.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
French
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky
  • INTRODUCTION / Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEWORKS OF BENJAMIN R. FOSTER / Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky
  • THE GOD ḤAY(Y)A (EA / ENKI) AT EBLA / Alfonso Archi
  • OR, PIERRES PRÉCIEUSES ET ARTIFICES. RÉFLEXIONS SUR LES PRODUCTIONS EN MATIÈRES VITREUSES À TELLO / Annie Caubet
  • UN NOUVEAU «PROTOCOLE DE SERMENT» DE MARI / Dominique Charpin
  • A LATE ACHAEMENID DOCUMENT FROM TAPSUḪU / Nadia Czechowicz and Muhammad Dandamayev
  • OLD BABYLONIAN PROPHECIES AT URUK AND KISH / Stephanie Dalley
  • A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SUCCUBUS—THE HERDSMAN’S ENCOUNTERS IN P. BERLIN 3024, THE PLEASURES OF FISHINGAND FOWLING, THE SONGS OF THE DRINKING PLACE, AND THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LOVE POETRY / John C. Darnell
  • WELL-TEMPEREDWORDS: CERAMIC METAPHORS IN MESOPOTAMIAN LITERATURE / Karen Polinger Foster
  • THE LATEST SUMERIAN PROVERBS / Eckart Frahm
  • MERCHANTS AND STATE FORMATION IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIA / Steven J. Garfinkle
  • THE ASSYRIAN ELEGY: FORM AND MEANING / A.R. George
  • L’ORDRE DE LECTURE DES PRÉSAGES SUR LE FOIE DE L’ANIMAL SACRIFIÉ / Jean-Jacques Glassner
  • DREAM ON / Erle Leichty
  • “UNTRUTHFUL STELES”: PROPAGANDA AND RELIABILITY IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA / Mario Liverani
  • DEFINING HISTORICAL FICTION IN NEWKINGDOM EGYPT / Colleen Manassa
  • THE SEAL OF USHRA-SAMU, OFFICIAL OF EBLA, AND ISHKHARA’S ICONOGRAPHY / Paolo Matthiae
  • A NEW ADDITION TO THE MUSICAL CORPUS / Elizabeth E. Payne
  • SEALED IDENTITIES / Laurie E. Pearce
  • A LIGHT INTHE GAGÛM WINDOW: THE SIPPAR CLOISTER INTHE LATE OLDBABYLONIANPERIOD / Seth Richardson
  • SHEEP AND CATTLE, COWS AND CALVES: THE SUMERO-AKKADIAN ASTRAL GODS AS LIVESTOCK / Francesca Rochberg
  • COHERENCE AND FRAGMENTS: REFLECTIONS ON THE SKL AND THE BOOK OF JUDGES / Jack M. Sasson
  • EARLY NON-CUNEIFORM WRITING? THIRD-MILLENNIUM BC CLAY CYLINDERS FROM UMM EL-MARRA / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • MYTH, MAGIC, AND RITUAL / Marcel Sigrist
  • A STUDY IN CONTRAST: SARGON OF ASSYRIA AND RUSA OF URARTU / Marc van de Mieroop
  • THE CAREER OF UR-BAGARA AS A CHRONOLOGICAL INDICATOR OF THE DOCUMENTS OF GIRSU FROM ŠARKALIŠARRI TO GUDEA / Giuseppe Visicato
  • WHAT’S NEWIN TOWN? / Aage Westenholz
  • DRINK TO ME ONLYWITH THINE EYES / Joan Goodnick Westenholz
  • GENERAL SUBJECT INDEX / Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky
  • CULTURE AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST / Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky.

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