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    At the dawn of history : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of J.N. Postgate / edited by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone, and Martin Worthington.

    • Title:At the dawn of history : ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of J.N. Postgate / edited by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone, and Martin Worthington.
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    • Variant Title:Ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of J.N. Postgate
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Heffron, Yağmur, editor.
      Stone, Adam, 1981- editor.
      Worthington, Martin, editor.
      Postgate, J. N., honouree.
    • Published/Created:Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2017.
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
      Akkadian language--Texts.
      Iraq--Civilization--To 634.
      Iraq--History--To 634.
      Iraq--Antiquities.
    • Description:2 volumes (xxiv, viii, 811 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9781575064710 hardcover, set 2 volumes ; alkaline paper
      1575064715 hardcover, set 2 volumes ; alkaline paper
      9781575064727 volume 1 ; alkaline paper
      1575064723 volume 1 ; alkaline paper
      9781575064734 volume 2 ; alkaline paper
      1575064731 volume 2 ; alkaline paper
    • Contents:Volume 1. A Fragment of Stele from Umma / Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
      In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards / Marie-Françoise Besnier
      The Šu-Suen Year 0 sa₂-du₁₁ ku₅-ra₂ Flour Dossier from Puzriš-Dagan / Robert Biggs
      To Eat Like a God: Religion and Economy in Old Babylonian Nippur / Nicole Brisch
      Remarks on the Earliest History of Horoscopy / David Brown
      A Ceramic Assemblage of the Early Literate Periods from Sumer / Daniel Calderbank and Jane Moon
      Stolen, Not Given? / María Dolores Casero Chamorro
      Are We any closer to establishing how many Sumerians per hectare? Recent approaches to Understanding the spatial Dynamics of Populations in Ancient Mesopotamian Cities / Carlo Colatoni
      New Perspectives on "Early Mesopotamia" / Harriet Crawford
      Of Arches, Vaults and Domes / Stephanie Dalley
      Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (III) "Arameans" and Related Tribalists / Frederick Mario Fales
      Instruktionen Tukultī-Ninurtas I / Helmut Freydank
      Gods, Temples, and Cult at the Service of the Early Hittite State / Marie-Henriette Gates
      The Ending of the Çineköy Inscription / David Hawkins
      A New Palatial Ware or a Case of Imitation of Egyptian Pottery? The Brownish Red Slip (BRS) from Qatna and its Significance within the Northern Levantine Ceramic Tradition of the Mid-Second Millennium BC / Marco Iamoni
      Building on the Past: Gertrude Bell and the Transformation of Space in the Karadağ / Mark Jackson
      Studies in the Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan
      The Temple of Salmānu at Dūr-Katlimmu, Nergal of Hubšalum, and Nergal-ereš / Harmut Kühne
      Between Slavery and Freedom / Mogens Trolle Larsen
      The King and His Army / Mario Liverani
      Two Middle Assyrian Delivery Notes from the British Museum's Tablet Collection / Jeanette C. Fincke and Jaume Llop-Raduà
      The Governors of Halzi-atbari in the Neo-Assyrian Period / Mikko Luukko
      Never the Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages / Naoise Mac Sweeney and Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu
      Piecing the Jigsaw / Harriet Martin
      A Palace for the King of Ereš? Evidence fromt he Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh, South Iraq / Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews
      How many Sumerians does it take to put out the rubbish? / August McMahon. Volume 2. The Location of Raṣappa / Simo Parpola
      Making Fire in Uruk-Period Abu Salabikh / Susan Pollock
      A Neo-Assyrian Legal Document from Tell Sitak / Karen Radner
      The Assyrian Palace at Nabi Yunus, Nineveh / Julian Reade
      The Socio-Economics of Cuneiform Scholarship after the "End of Archives": Views from Borsippa and Uruk / Eleanor Robson
      Eine Königskette im Heiligtum der Ištar von Assur / Ursula Seidl
      On the Tablet Trail: Herdsmen's Employment for Royal Wives in the Ur III Period / T.M. Sharlach
      An Expedition of King Shalmaneser I and Prince Tukultī-Ninurta to Carchemish / Daisuke Shibata
      The Role of Stimulants in Early Near Eastern Society: Insights through Artifacts and Texts / Diana Stein
      An Estimate of the Population of the City of Umma in Ur III Times / Piotr Steinkeller / How many Mesopotamians per hectare? / Elizabeth C. Stone
      The Terminology for times of the day in Akkadian / Michael P. Streck
      "Counter-Archaeology:" Putting the Ur III Drehem Archives Back in the Ground / Christina Tsouparopoulou
      Meaning in Perspective: Some Akkadian Terms for "Foundation" : uššu, temennu, išdu, duruššu- / Johanna Tudeau
      Nergal-eṭir's Correspondence in the light of BM 30205, and a Preliminary Edition of BM 36543, another Fragmentary Neo-Assyrian Letter in the Babylon Collection of the British Museum / Greta Van Buylaere
      Seven Debt-Notes of Anatolians from Ancient Kanesh / Klaas R. Veenhof
      Oracle Bones at the Sichuan University Museum / Xianhua Wang and Changhong Chen
      Association of the Dog with Healing Power in Mesopotamia / Chikako E. Watanabe
      Ugaritic Military Terms in the Light of Comparative Linguistics / Wilfred G.E. Watson
      Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism / Mark Weeden
      Ein dritter Backstein mit der grossen Inschrift des Königs Takil-ilissu von Malgûm und der Tonnagel des Ipiq-Ištar / Claus Wilcke
      Assur among the Gods of Urartu / Paul Zimansky
      Some Bronze Stamp Seals of Achaemenid Date / Dominique Collon and John Curtis
      Assyrians after the Fall: Evidence from the Ebabbar of Sippar / John MacGinnis
      Prayer and Praise in the City of Assur / Frances Reynolds.
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