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He has opened Nisaba's house of learning : studies in honor of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg on the occasion of his 89th birthday on August 1st 2013 / edited by Leonhard Sassmannshausen ; collaboration with Georg Neumann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cuneiform monographs ; 46.
- Cuneiform Monographs, 0929-0052 ; Volume 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akkadian philology.
- Sumerian philology.
- Sumerians.
- Middle East--Civilization--To 622.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In He has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning twenty-six scholars honor Åke Sjöberg, professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania and former editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary . The twenty-one studies included focus on Mesopotamian wisdom literature, religious texts, cultural concepts, the history of writing, material culture, society, and law from the invention of writing to the Hellenistic period. The volume includes editions of several previously unpublished texts.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Listen to the Roaring Ox: K 7674+, On Some Proverbial Sayings from the Neo-Assyrian Period. Studies in Bilingual Proverbs III / Bendt Alster
- IAS 298 und IAS 328 / Josef Bauer
- Vizir, concubine, entonnoir . . . Comment lire et comprendre le signe SAL.ḪUB2? / Antoine Cavigneaux and Frans Wiggermann
- A New Piece of an Inanna/Dumuzi Lamentation / Mark E. Cohen
- Diorite and Limestone: A Sumerian Perspective / Benjamin R. Foster
- Slaves and Strangers / William W. Hallo
- Two Lullabies / Margaret Jaques
- Zum altassyrischen Eherecht / Burkhart Kienast
- The “Stars (of) Heaven” and Cuneiform Writing / Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati
- The Rejected Sheep / Erle Leichty and Ann Guinan
- Un modèle culturel sumerien : l’élevage / Henri Limet
- Zur Archäologie der Schrift: Die Erfindung des Rebusprinzips in protoschriftlicher Zeit / Ludwig D. Morenz
- Überlegungen zu den „Graeco-Babyloniaca“ / Joachim Oelsner
- Kassitische Herrscher und ihre Namen / Leonhard Sassmannshausen
- Dumuzi(d)s Wiederkehr? / Gebhard J. Selz
- (TS)Š 302, eine Importtafel aus Uruk in Šuruppak? / Horst Steible and Fatma Yıldız
- The Sumerian Debate Poems: A General Presentation, Part III / Herman Vanstiphout
- The Early Dynastic Kiš Tradition / Niek Veldhuis
- Four and a half “Quasi-Hüllentafeln” / Gabriella Voet and Karel Van Lerberghe
- The Ear and Its Wisdom / Joan Goodnick Westenholz
- Dreams as Gods and Gods in Dreams. Dream-Realities in Ancient Mesopotamia from the Third to the 1st Millennium B.C. / Annette Zgoll
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-26075-7
- OCLC:
- 866442069
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004260757 DOI
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