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Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur
Inbunden, 1989
1050 kr
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This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final days of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The text is both an important work of native historiography and a moving literary composition. The author's …
House Most High
The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia
Inbunden, 1993
846 kr
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Originally begun in collaboration with Professor W. L. Moran, this work collects all of the extant cuneiform tablets inscribed with lists of temples. The temple lists are classified in terms of their organization, whether associated with lexical lists, organized theologically, topographically, or …
Legends of the Kings of Akkade
The Texts
Inbunden, 1997
1324 kr
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The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to …
Writing on the Wall
Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions
Inbunden, 1999
861 kr
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It is too often forgotten that every Assyrian “historical” inscription functioned in a very specific context. This context influenced its content and the way in which it was perceived by ancient viewers and readers. Russell’s goal is to address the reconstruction of the context of these …
Adapa and the South Wind
Language Has the Power of Life and Death
Inbunden, 2001
846 kr
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The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This …
Letters to the King of Mari
A New Translation, with Historical Introduction, Notes, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2003
1337 kr
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In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a reconstruction of events during Zimri-Lim’s reign, and English translations of these Mari texts (26/1, 26/2, 27, and additional texts). This volume …
Babylonian Oracle Questions
Inbunden, 2007
986 kr
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The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-god Shamash and the storm-god Adad jointly. Professional diviners were employed to put the questions with the appropriate rites and to formulate the wording correctly, since the only answer would be “yes” or “no.” Thus the …
Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
Av Gianni Marchesi, Nicolò Marchetti
Inbunden, 2011
1846 kr
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The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and development of these artifacts has been a complicated and problematic task. In this volume—first published in Italian in 2006 and here translated, …
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom
Inbunden, 2011
1507 kr
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The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III monarchs and their high officials at the end of the third millennium B.C. The letters cover topics of royal authority and proper governance, defense of frontier regions, and the ultimate disintegration of …
Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography
Häftad, 2011
902 kr
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In this comprehensive study, Horowitz examines all of the extant Mesopotamian texts (both Sumerian and Akkadian) relating to the ideas of the physical universe and its constituent parts (Heaven, Earth, subterranean waters, underworld). The author shows that the Mesopotamian view of the universe was …
Lamaštu
An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu Incantations and Rituals and Related Texts from the Second and First Millennia B.C.
Inbunden, 2014
1143 kr
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Lamaštu was one of the most important Mesopotamian demons, playing a dominant role in the magico-religious and magico-medical beliefs and practices of ancient Mesopotamia for nearly two millennia. Yet, she has never been the subject of a scholarly monograph dedicated to the textual and visual …
Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
Av Nili Samet
Inbunden, 2014
1431 kr
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The goal of this book is to present a revised edition of the Sumerian Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, a lament bewailing the fall of the glorious Ur III kingdom in 2004 B.C.E.Lamentation is a well-known genre in world literature. Laments of various types are part of the cultural legacy and …
Legends of the Kings of Akkade
The Texts
Häftad, 1997
747 kr
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The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to …
Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur
Häftad, 2014
694 kr
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This work presents for the first time in its entirety the long Sumerian poem describing the destruction and suffering in Babylonia during the final days of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The text is both an important work of native historiography and a moving literary composition. The author's …
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part One
Av A. R. George, Junko Taniguchi
Inbunden, 2019
1209 kr
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W. G. Lambert’s line drawings of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum, together with his meticulous editions of their contents, form a contribution to Assyriology unrivaled in his generation. Upon his death in 2011, Lambert bequeathed his academic legacy to A. R. George, who discovered among …
Assyria
The Imperial Mission
Inbunden, 2017
650 kr
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In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the Parthians and …
Babylonia, the Gulf Region, and the Indus
Archaeological and Textual Evidence for Contact in the Third and Early Second Millennia B.C.
Av Steffen Laursen, Piotr Steinkeller
Häftad, 2017
800 kr
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During the third millennium BC, the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity, within which the Persian Gulf for long periods functioned as a central …
Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts
Av F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1771 kr
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This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period—specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires—and provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law.The present study …
Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two
Av A. R. George, Junko Taniguchi
Inbunden, 2021
457 kr
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This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926–2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edition of Lambert’s previously unpublished …
Assyria
The Imperial Mission
Häftad, 2022
429 kr
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In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the Parthians and …
Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf!
Mesopotamische Baby-Beschworungen und -Rituale
Inbunden, 1989
600 kr
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This study presents Mesopotamian incantations and rituals for calming infants and protecting them against disease. The book’s work is thus of interest not only to Near Eastern specialists, but to anthropologists and historians of medicine as well. The author introduces, edits, and translates the …
Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of Mannum-mešu-liṣṣur
Av Elizabeth C. Stone, David I. Owen
Inbunden, 1991
600 kr
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In a primarily diachronic study of the adoption texts from Old Babylonian Nippur, the authors examine the contexts and purposes of adoption. As a result, a number of motivations for adoption are uncovered, including both economic (property exchange) and social (family-oriented) functions. Along …
Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Av Piotr Steinkeller, J. N. Postgate
Inbunden, 1992
600 kr
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This volume presents the legal and administrative texts in the Iraq Museum at Baghdad that date to the Fara, Pre-Sargonic, and Sargonic periods, and that stem from illicit excavations. Sixty-eight of the seventy-four texts presented are published for the first time. Steinkeller’s introduction …
Time at Emar
The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviner's Archive
Inbunden, 2000
710 kr
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The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this …
babilili-Ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718)
Av Gary Beckman
Inbunden, 2014
456 kr
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Hittite culture of the second millennium B.C.E. was strongly influenced by Mesopotamian culture, in part through the mediation of the peripheral cuneiform civilizations of northern Syria, in part through direct contact with Babylonia and Assyria. The text edited here (CTH 718) presents an extreme …
Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands
A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC)
Inbunden, 2019
439 kr
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The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands documents and analyzes for the first time a corpus of eighteen monumental highland reliefs from the Elamite civilization in ancient Iran, which—hitherto preserved by their remote location and anonymous existence—have recently become imperiled by an …
