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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 42.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 489 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004186569
  • 9004186565
  • 1283858304
  • 9781283858304
Other title:
  • Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Opening the tablet box.DDC classification:
  • 892/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ3601 .O64 2010
Online resources:
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.
Summary: With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.
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"Bibliography of the works of Benjamin R. Foster": pages 5-13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and French.

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.

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With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.

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