Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. FosterSarah Melville, Alice Slotsky BRILL, 9 aug 2010 - 489 pagina's 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 his friendship. Reflecting on the remarkable breadth of the honoree s research interests, the twenty-six original papers in this Festschrift cover a wide range of topics in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian literature, economic and social history, as well as art and archaeology. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Bibliography of the Works of Benjamin R Foster | 5 |
The God Ḥayya EaEnki at Ebla A Archi
| 15 |
Or Pierres Précieuses et Artifices Réflexions sur les Productions en Matières Vitreuses à Tello A Caubet | 37 |
Un Nouveau Protocole de Serment de Mari D Charpin
| 49 |
A Late Achaemenid Document fromTapsuḫu N Czechowicz and M Dandamayev | 77 |
Old Babylonian Prophecies at Uruk and Kish S Dalley
| 85 |
A Midsummer Nights SuccubusThe Herdsmans Encounters in P Berlin 3024 the Pleasures of Fishing and Fowling the Songs of the Drinking Place an... | 99 |
Defining Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt C Manassa
| 245 |
The Seal of UshraSamu Official of Ebla and Ishkharas Iconography P Matthiae
| 271 |
A New Addition to the Musical Corpus E Payne
| 291 |
Sealed Identities L Pearce
| 301 |
The Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian Period S Richardson
| 329 |
The SumeroAkkadian Astral Gods as Livestock F Rochberg
| 347 |
Reflections on the SKL and the Book of Judges J Sasson
| 361 |
Early NonCuneiform Writing? ThirdMillennium bc Clay Cylinders from Umm elMarra G Schwartz
| 375 |
Ceramic Metaphors in Mesopotamian Literature K Foster
| 141 |
The Latest Sumerian Proverbs E Frahm
| 155 |
Merchants and State Formation in Early Mesopotamia S Garfinkle
| 185 |
Formand Meaning AR George
| 203 |
Lordre de Lecture des Présages sur le Foie de Lanimal Sacrifié JJ Glassner
| 217 |
Dream On E Leichty
| 225 |
Propaganda and Reliability in Ancient Mesopotamia M Liverani
| 229 |
Myth Magic and Ritual M Sigrist
| 397 |
Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu M Van De Mieroop
| 417 |
The Career of UrBagara as a Chronological Indicatior of the Documents of Girsu from Šarkališarri to Gudea G Visicato
| 435 |
Whats New in Town? AWestenholz
| 453 |
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes J GoodnickWestenholz
| 463 |
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