Title If a man builds a joyful house : Assyriological studies in honor of Erle Verdun Leichty / edited by Ann K. Guinan, Maria DeJ. Ellis, A.J. Ferrara, Sally M. Freedman, Matthew T. Rutz, Leonhard Sassmannshausen, Steve Tinney, and M.W. Waters

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 529 pages) : illustrations Series Cuneiform monographs, 0929-0052 ; volume 31 Cuneiform monographs ; 31. Contents Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Erle Verdun Leichty -- Lists of Therapeutic Plants: An Observation / Tzvi Abusch -- The Astronomers of the Esagil Temple in the Fourth Century BC / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- The Use of Occupation Names as Patronyms in the Kassite Period: A Forerunner of Neo-Babylonian Ancestral Names? / J.A. Brinkman -- Early Dynastic Plaque Fragments / Jeanny V. Canby -- be5/pe-en-zé-er = biṣṣūru / Miguel Civil -- A Small Old Babylonian Army of A-pí-ru-ú / Mark E. Cohen -- Cuneiform Studies at Penn: From Hilprecht to Leichty / Barry L. Eichler -- Well, Dog My Cats! A Note on the URIDIMMU / Richard S. Ellis -- The Size and Versions of Inanna's Descent / A.J. Ferrara -- On an Izbu VII Commentary / I.L. Finkel -- BM 129092: A Commentary on Snake Omens / Sally Freedman -- Practice or Praxis / M.J. Geller -- Babylonian Texts from the Folios of Sidney Smith, Part Three: A Commentary on a Ritual of the Month Nisan / Andrew R. George -- Another Ancient Antiquary / William W. Hallo -- The Return of the Governor / Atsuko Hattori -- Visualising Text: Schematic Patterns in Akkadian Poetry / Anne Draffkorn Kilmer -- An "Old Akkadian" Sale Document of Unknown Provenance / Jacob Klein -- Enbilulu and the Calendar / W.G. Lambert -- A Stray Nuzi Text from Belgium / M.P. Maidman -- How to Read the Liver, In Sumerian / Piotr Michalowski -- Cuneiform Texts in Utah Collections / D.I. Owen and E. Wasilewska -- The Mesopotamian Conceptualization of Birth and the Determination of Destiny at Sunrise / J. Polonsky -- If Mars Comes Close to Pegasus / Erica Reiner -- Nomads, Barbarians, and Societal Collapse in the Historiography of Ancient Southwest Asia / John F. Robertson -- Old Babylonian Celestial Divination / F. Rochberg -- Elder Abuse : LH 195 / Martha T. Roth -- A Weakness for Hellenism / JoAnn Scurlock and Farouk Al-Rawi -- The Case of the Family That Fled / T.M. Sharlach -- Droit de Pêche: Tablette St. Étienne 26 / Marcel Sigrist -- Some Emar Lexical Entries / Åke W. Sjöberg -- Some Footnotes to the History of Assyriology: Leonard William King of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania / Clyde Curry Smith -- Two Neo-Babylonian Texts of Foreign Workmen / Ira Spar, Thomas J. Logan, James P. Allen -- Parysatis in Babylon / Matthew W. Stolper -- F for Fake? Two Early Mesopotamian-Looking Objects in a Swiss Collection / Claudia E. Suter -- Divination: Theory and Use / Niek Veldhuis -- Four Brothers and a Throne / M.W. Waters -- Tišatal and Nineveh at the End of the 3rd Millenium BCE / Richard L. Zettler Summary This volume honors Erle Verdun Leichty's substantial and wide-ranging contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia. The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology. Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists Bibliography "Publications of Erle Verdun Leichty": pages xxiii-xxvii Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Digital images Subject Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History and criticism Sumerian literature -- History and criticism HISTORY -- Civilization. Antiquities Assyro-Babylonian literature Civilization Sumerian literature Spijkerschrift. Assyriologie. SUBJECT Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067938 Iraq -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067936 Subject Iraq Mesopotamië. Genre/Form Festschriften Criticism, interpretation, etc. Festschriften. Form Electronic book Author Leichty, Erle, 1933-2016, honouree. Guinan, Ann K., editor. Ellis, Maria deJ., editor. Ferrara, A. J. (Anthony Joseph), 1940-2017, editor. Freedman, Sally M., 1947- editor. Rutz, Matthew, editor. Sassmannshausen, Leonhard, editor. Tinney, Steve, 1961- editor. Waters, Matthew W. (Matthew William), editor. ISBN 9789047408239 9047408233 1281396753 9781281396754 9786611396756 6611396756

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