Assyria and beyond : studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen / edited by J. G. Dercksen.

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Language: English, French, German, Akkadian Series: Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 100, | Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 100. Publication details: Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004.Description: xiii, 632 p. : ill., 1 port. ; 27 cmISBN:

9062583113

ISSN:

0926-9568

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LOC classification:

DS69.6 A87 2004

Contents:

The role of writing in Sumerian agriculture : asking the broader questions / Robert McC. Adams -- "She will live, eat and be anointed together with them" : ušbat aklat u paššat ištīšunu / İrfan Albayrak -- Gudam and the bull of heaven / Bendt Alster (with an appendix by Laura Feldt) -- Civic institutions and self-government in southern Mesopotamia in the mid-first millennium BC / Gojko Barjamovic -- Prétendants au trône dans le Proche-Orient amorrite / Dominique Charpin, Jean-Marie Durand -- The quest for eternity : studies in Neo-Sumerian systems of succession / Jacob L. Dahl -- Some elements of Old Anatolian society in Kaniš / Jan Gerrit Dercksen -- Some Old Assyrian texts with rare terminology / Veysel Donbaz -- In the names of Aššur! / Jesper Eidem -- Aida and Edward Said : attitudes and images of ancient Egypt and Egyptology / Paul John Frandsen -- Yanûh-Samar et les Ekallâtéens en détresse / Michaël Guichard, Nele Ziegler -- Two treaty texts found at Kültepe / Cahit Günbattı -- Destined to defeat : Old Icelandic commercial problems / Kirsten Hastrup -- Beim Tode unseres Vaters... : der leidige Streit ums Erbe / Karl Hecker -- The Balawat Gate narratives of Shalmaneser III / Thomas Hertel -- Amorite vocabulary : a comparative statement / Ebbe E. Knudsen -- Assyrian light on the history of the N-stem / N. J. C. Kouwenberg -- Wer schrieb die Waklum-Briefe? / Guido Kryszat -- Narrative art and empire : the throneroom of Aššurnaṣirpal II / Stephen Lumsden -- A scribal quarter? / Diederik J. W. Meijer -- Deux incantations paléo-asyriennes : une nouvelle incantation pour accompagner la naissance / Cécile Michel -- Die Säule in Assyrien / Peter A. Miglus -- More cylinder seals found in Level Ib of Karum Kanish / Nimet Özgüç -- Archives of the Karum at Kaniš, Level Ib / Tahsin Özgüç -- The fish on a tablet from Babylon / Olof Pedersén -- The historical status of the Assur stelas / Julian Reade -- Runaway - seize him / Erica Reiner -- The Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literary tradition : a survey of the narrative source material / Kim Ryholt -- The Kasr texts, the Rich collection, the Bellino copies and the Grotefend Nachlass / Matthew W. Stolper -- Trade with the blessing of Šamaš in Old Babylonian Sippar / Klaas R. Veenhof -- Shamshi-Adad and the eclipses / David A. Warburton -- "Have you been near Prof. Larsen too long?" / Aage Westenholz -- The conquest of space in time : three suns on the Victory stele of Naram-sîn / Irene J. Winter.

Summary: This Festschrift publishes 33 essays which not only reflect Mogens Trolle Larsen's life-long interest in the Old Assyrian period but also examine wider aspects of Near Eastern and Egyptian ancient history. Supported by transcriptions and translations of texts where appropriate, the well-presented and specialised essays discuss, for example: the role of writing in Sumerian agriculture; Gudam and the bull of heaven; Old Anatolian society; Old Assyrian texts with rare terminology; attitudes and images of ancient Egypt and Egyptology; Amorite vocabulary; a throneroom; cylinder seals; the fish on a tablet from Babylon; Assur; runaway slaves; the Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literature; and much more. There is even a paper of Old Icelandic trading problems.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library	DS69.6, A87 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Not For Loan		148

Bibliography of Mogens Trolle Larsen : (p. [629]-632)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This Festschrift publishes 33 essays which not only reflect Mogens Trolle Larsen's life-long interest in the Old Assyrian period but also examine wider aspects of Near Eastern and Egyptian ancient history. Supported by transcriptions and translations of texts where appropriate, the well-presented and specialised essays discuss, for example: the role of writing in Sumerian agriculture; Gudam and the bull of heaven; Old Anatolian society; Old Assyrian texts with rare terminology; attitudes and images of ancient Egypt and Egyptology; Amorite vocabulary; a throneroom; cylinder seals; the fish on a tablet from Babylon; Assur; runaway slaves; the Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literature; and much more. There is even a paper of Old Icelandic trading problems.

English, French, and German contributions with some text in transliterated Akkadian.

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