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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First edition. Octavo. xxvii, (1), 529, (1)pp. Indices. Blue buckram lettered in white, with 1/2" yellow band at top. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. A fine, as new copy. This volume honors Erle Verdun Leichty's substantial and wide-ranging contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia. The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology. Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists. (Publisher) The editors are both students of the honoree and colleagues from the Babylonian Section of the University Museum. Contents: Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of Erle Verdun Leichty -- Lists of Therapeutic Plants: An Observation / Tzvi Abusch -- The Astronomers of the Esagil Temple in the Fourth Century BC / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- The Use of Occupation Names as Patronyms in the Kassite Period: A Forerunner of Neo-Babylonian Ancestral Names? / J.A. Brinkman -- Early Dynastic Plaque Fragments / Jeanny V. Canby -- be5/pe-en-zé-er = bi???ru / Miguel Civil -- A Small Old Babylonian Army of A-pí-ru-ú / Mark E. Cohen -- Cuneiform Studies at Penn: From Hilprecht to Leichty / Barry L. Eichler -- Well, Dog My Cats! A Note on the URIDIMMU / Richard S. Ellis -- The Size and Versions of Inanna's Descent / A.J. Ferrara -- On an Izbu VII Commentary / I.L. Finkel -- BM 129092: A Commentary on Snake Omens / Sally Freedman -- Practice or Praxis / M.J. Geller -- Babylonian Texts from the Folios of Sidney Smith, Part Three: A Commentary on a Ritual of the Month Nisan / Andrew R. George -- Another Ancient Antiquary / William W. Hallo -- The Return of the Governor / Atsuko Hattori -- Visualising Text: Schematic Patterns in Akkadian Poetry / Anne Draffkorn Kilmer -- An "Old Akkadian" Sale Document of Unknown Provenance / Jacob Klein -- Enbilulu and the Calendar / W.G. Lambert -- A Stray Nuzi Text from Belgium / M.P. Maidman -- How to Read the Liver, In Sumerian / Piotr Michalowski -- Cuneiform Texts in Utah Collections / D.I. Owen and E. Wasilewska -- The Mesopotamian Conceptualization of Birth and the Determination of Destiny at Sunrise / J. Polonsky -- If Mars Comes Close to Pegasus / Erica Reiner -- Nomads, Barbarians, and Societal Collapse in the Historiography of Ancient Southwest Asia / John F. Robertson -- Old Babylonian Celestial Divination / F. Rochberg -- Elder Abuse : LH 195 / Martha T. Roth -- A Weakness for Hellenism / JoAnn Scurlock and Farouk Al-Rawi -- The Case of the Family That Fled / T.M. Sharlach -- Droit de Pêche: Tablette St. Étienne 26 / Marcel Sigrist -- Some Emar Lexical Entries / Åke W. Sjöberg -- Some Footnotes to the History of Assyriology: Leonard William King of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania / Clyde Curry Smith -- Two Neo-Babylonian Texts of Foreign Workmen / Ira Spar, Thomas J. Logan, James P. Allen -- Parysatis in Babylon / Matthew W. Stolper -- F for Fake? Two Early Mesopotamian-Looking Objects in a Swiss Collection / Claudia E. Suter -- Divination: Theory and Use / Niek Veldhuis -- Four Brothers and a Throne / M.W. Waters -- Tiatal and Nineveh at the End of the 3rd Millenium BCE / Richard L. Zettler. (OCLC) Volume 31 in the Brill series, "Cuneiform Monographs." (CM).

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