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The scourge of god : the Umman-manda and its significance in the first millenium B.C. / by Selim Ferruh Adali.
Penn Museum Library PJ3171 .A33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adalı, Selim Ferruh.
- Series:
- State archives of Assyria studies ; v.20.
- Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research ; no. 3.
- State archives of Assyria studies ; v. 20
- Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research ; no. 3
- Language:
- Akkadian
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akkadian language--Terms and phrases.
- Akkadian language.
- Akkadian language--Texts.
- Akkadian philology.
- Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.
- Assyro-Babylonian literature.
- Legends--Middle East.
- Legends.
- Terms and phrases.
- Middle East.
- Assyria--Antiquities.
- Assyria.
- Iraq--History.
- Iraq.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviiii, 218 pages ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Umman-manda and its significance in the first millenium B.C.
- Place of Publication:
- [Helsinki] : Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Includes transliterated texts in Akkadian with English translation and commentary.
- Contents:
- Sources and written form
- Etymology
- The omen tradition
- The literary texts
- From Anatolia and the Levant
- Literary allusions
- Neo-Assyrian sources
- Neo-Babylonian sources
- Umman-manda in the inscriptions of Nabonidus
- Emerging pattern
- Excursus: The lexical analysis of mandum.
- Notes:
- Revised and updated version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789521013355
- 9521013354
- OCLC:
- 741262450
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