Cuneiform Monographs – serie
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Cults of Uruk and Babylon
The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice
Inbunden, 2003
2795 kr
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This volume deals with temple ritual texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the cities Uruk and Babylon. Key question is whether they are a reliable source of information on the cult practices in Uruk and Babylon during the Hellenistic period. In the book an extensive description is …
Provincial Taxation and the Ur III State
Inbunden, 2003
4087 kr
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This volume investigates the relationship between the central government and the provinces during the Ur III period (2112-2004 B.C.). Specifically, the book focuses on one system of taxation known as "bala," or "rotation," so called as provinces' payments rotated month by month throughout the year. …
Religion, Literature, and Scholarship: The Sumerian Composition Nanše and the Birds
With a Catalogue of Sumerian Bird Names
Inbunden, 2004
3571 kr
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This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in the context of the Old Babylonian scribal school. The discussions of Babylonian religion, literature, and scholarship focus on the usefulness …
Grammar of Perspective
The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes as a System of Voice
Inbunden, 2008
3330 kr
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The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary …
Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure
Av Shalom Holtz
Inbunden, 2009
3271 kr
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Even though scholars have known of Neo-Babylonian legal texts almost since Assyriology's very beginnings, no comprehensive study of court procedure has been undertaken. This lack is particularly glaring in light of studies of court procedure in earlier periods of Mesopotamian history. With these …
Advances in Mesopotamian Medicine from Hammurabi to Hippocrates
Proceedings of the International Conference "Oeil malade et mauvais oeil", Collège de France, Paris, 23rd June 2006
Av Annie Attia, Gilles Buisson
Inbunden, 2009
2150 kr
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This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises contributions by many of the leading researchers in Babylonian and Assyrian medicine. A wealth of topics are studied, including medical lexicography, prosopography, and technology, economic aspects of healing, and …
Von Göttern und Menschen
Beiträge zu Literatur und Geschichte des Alten Orients. Festschrift für Brigitte Groneberg
Inbunden, 2010
3962 kr
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Religions, Literature and Languages of the Ancient Near East have always been the main research interests of Prof. Brigitte Groneberg, and now take centre stage in this volume. Twenty four contributors have participated in composing this book, presenting their research dealing with Mesopotamian …
Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia
The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany
Inbunden, 2011
3057 kr
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This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes …
Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien
Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr.
Inbunden, 2012
4405 kr
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Being the first monographic study of this kind in the field of Assyriology, this book comprises an investigation of Ancient Mesopotamian concepts of the human person. Concentrating on Akkadian cuneiform texts from the 2nd and 1st millennium BC, the author examines the characteristics and attributes …
Reign of Adad-nīrārī III
An Historical and Ideological Analysis of An Assyrian King and His Times
Inbunden, 2013
2459 kr
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In The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III, Luis Siddall examines the evidence and edits new inscriptions from the king’s reign to investigate the chronology, campaigns, imperial administration and royal ideology of the period. While historians have typically viewed this period as one of turmoil, imperial …
He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning
Studies in Honor of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg on the Occasion of His 89th Birthday on August 1st 2013
Inbunden, 2013
2808 kr
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In He has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning twenty-six scholars honor Åke Sjöberg, professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania and former editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. The twenty-one studies included focus on Mesopotamian wisdom literature, religious texts, …
Mittani Palaeography
Inbunden, 2019
3128 kr
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In Mittani Palaeography, Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbakır. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and …
Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary
Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical Diagnosis (Sa-gig), Cuneiform Monographs vol. 49/1
Av John Z Wee
Inbunden, 2019
2997 kr
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Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook.In line with commentators self-fashioning as experts of …
Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig
Edition and Notes on Medical Lexicography, Cuneiform Monographs vol. 49/2
Av John Z Wee
Inbunden, 2019
3184 kr
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Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig is intended for specialists in cuneiform studies, and includes a cuneiform edition, English translation, and notes on medical lexicography for thirty Sa-gig commentary tablets and fragments, as well as a study on technical notations …
Third Millennium
Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in Honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik
Av Ilya Arkhipov, Leonid Kogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3788 kr
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The Festschrift containing 37 contributions celebrates the scholarly achievements of the two outstanding Assyriologists, Walter Sommerfeld (University of Marburg) and Manfred Krebernik (University of Jena). The primary focus of the volume corresponds to the main topics of interests of Professors …
Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur
Av Fei Chen
Inbunden, 2020
2734 kr
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In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic King List are …
Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition
Av Mary Frazer
Inbunden, 2024
2631 kr
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Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700–100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters’ contents, language, possible …
Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature
How to Tell a Story
Av Dahlia Shehata, Karen Sonik
Inbunden, 2024
2070 kr
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This volume lays theoretical and methodological groundwork for the analysis of Mesopotamian literature. A comprehensive first chapter by the editors explores critical contemporary issues in Sumerian and Akkadian narrative analysis, and nine case studies written by an international array of scholars …
Gods in Love
A Critical Edition and Analysis of the 'Divine Love Lyrics'
Av Rocío Da Riva, Nathan Wasserman
Inbunden, 2025
2258 kr
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The Divine Love Lyrics is a thematically cohesive collection of approximately 50 cuneiform texts from the 1st millennium BCE, originating in Assyria and Babylonia. These texts are connected to religious ceremonies in Babylon that revolved around the city’s principal deities: Marduk, his wife …
