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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melville, Sarah C. (Sarah Chamberlin)

Slotsky, Alice Louise.

Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read)

Series:

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 42.

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 42

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Sumerian literature--History and criticism.

Sumerian literature.

Religion.

Iraq--Literatures.

Iraq.

Akkadian language.

Iraq--Religion.

Egyptian language.

Genre:

Literatures.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English and French.

Contents:

Light in the Gagûm window: the Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian period / S. Richardson

Sheep and cattle, cows and calves: the Sumero-Akkadian astral gods as livestock / F. Rochberg

Coherence and fragments: reflections on the SKL and the Book fo Judges / J. Sasson

Early non-cuneiform writing? Third-millenium BC clay cylinders from Umm el-Marra / G. Schwartz

Myth, magic, and ritual / M. Sigrist

Study in contrast: Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu / M. Van de Mieroop

Career of Ur-Bagara as a chronological indicator of the documents of Girsu from Šarkališarri to Gudea / G. Visicato

What's new in town? / A. Westenholz

Drink to me only with thine eyes / J. Goodnick Westenholz.

Notes:

"Bibliography of the works of Benjamin R. Foster": pages [5]-13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004186521

9004186522

OCLC:

671249897