At the Dawn of History: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. N. Postgate

Published by Penn State University Press 2017

At the Dawn of History

Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. N. Postgate

Edited by: Yağmur Heffron , Adam Stone and Martin Worthington

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575064741

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Nearly 50 students, colleagues, and friends of Nicholas Postgate join in tribute to an Assyriologist and Archaeologist who has had a profound influence on both disciplines. His work and scholarship are strongly felt in Iraq, where he was the Director of the British School of Archaeology, in the United Kingdom, where he is Emeritus Professor of Assyriology in the University of Cambridge, and in the subject internationally. He has fostered close collaboration with colleagues in Turkey and Iraq, where he has been involved in archaeological investigation, always seeking to meld the study of texts with that of material remains.

The essays embrace the full range of Postgate’s interests, including government and administration, art history, population studies, the economy, religion and divination, foodstuffs, ceramics, and Akkadian and Sumerian language—in a word, all of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Nicholas Postgate’s Publications (up to 2016) Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
A Fragment of a Stele from Umma Lamia Al-Gailani Werr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards Marie-Françoise Besnier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
The Šu-Suen Year 9 sa₂-du₁₁ ku₅-ra₂ Flour Dossier from Puzriš-Dagan Robert Biggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
To Eat Like a God: Religion and Economy in Old Babylonian Nippur Nicole Brisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Remarks on the Earliest History of Horoscopy David Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
A Ceramic Assemblage of the Early Literate Periods from Sumer Daniel Calderbank and Jane Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Stolen, Not Given? María Dolores Casero Chamorro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
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 Colantoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
New Perspectives on ‘Early Mesopotamia’ Harriet Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Of Arches, Vaults and Domes Stephanie Dalley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (III) “Arameans” and Related Tribalists Frederick Mario Fales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Instruktionen Tukultī-Ninurtas I. Helmut Freydank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Gods, Temples, and Cult at the Service of the Early Hittite State Marie-Henriette Gates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
The Ending of the Çineköy Inscription David Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Building on the Past: Gertrude Bell and the Transformation of Space in the Karadağ Mark Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Studies in the Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic Geoffrey Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
The Temple of Salmānu at Dūr-Katlimmu, Nergal of Hubšalum, and Nergal-ereš Hartmut Kühne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Between Slavery and Freedom Mogens Trolle Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The King and His Army Mario Liverani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Two Middle Assyrian Delivery Notes from the British Museum’s Tablet Collection Jeanette C. Fincke and Jaume Llop-Raduà Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
The Governors of Halzi-atbari in the Neo-Assyrian Period Mikko Luukko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Never The Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages Naoíse Mac Sweeney and Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Piecing the Jigsaw... Harriet Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
A Palace for the King of Ereš? Evidence from the Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh, South Iraq Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
How Many Sumerians Does It Take to Put Out the Rubbish? Augusta McMahon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Volume 2
The Location of Raṣappa Simo Parpola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Making Fire in Uruk-Period Abu Salabikh Susan Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
A Neo-Assyrian Legal Document from Tell Sitak Karen Radner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
The Assyrian Palace at Nabi Yunus, Nineveh Julian Reade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
The Socio-Economics of Cuneiform Scholarship after the ‘End of Archives’: Views from Borsippa and Uruk Eleanor Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Eine Königskette im Heiligtum der Ištar von Assur Ursula Seidl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
On the Tablet Trail: Herdsmen’s Employment for Royal Wives in the Ur III Period T. M. Sharlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
An Expedition of King Shalmaneser I and Prince Tukultī-Ninurta to Carchemish Daisuke Shibata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
The Role of Stimulants in Early Near Eastern Society: Insights through Artifacts and Texts Diana Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
An Estimate of the Population of the City of Umma in Ur III Times Piotr Steinkeller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
How Many Mesopotamians per Hectare? . Elizabeth C. Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
The Terminology for Times of the Day in Akkadian Michael P. Streck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
Counter-Archaeology’: Putting the Ur III Drehem Archives Back in the Ground Christina Tsouparopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
Meaning in Perspective: Some Akkadian Terms for ‘Foundation’— -uššu, temennu, išdu, duruššu Johanna Tudeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
Seven Debt-Notes of Anatolians from Ancient Kanesh Klaas R. Veenhof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
Oracle Bones at the Sichuan University Museum Xianhua Wang and Changhong Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	685
Association of the Dog with Healing Power in Mesopotamia Chikako E. Watanabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	689
Ugaritic Military Terms in the Light of Comparative Linguistics Wilfred G. E. Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	699
Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism Mark Weeden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	721
Ein dritter Backstein mit der großen Inschrift des Königs Takil-ilissu von Malgûm und der Tonnagel des Ipiq-Ištar Claus Wilcke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737
Assur among the Gods of Urartu Paul Zimansky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	753
Some Bronze Stamp Seals of Achaemenid Date Dominique Collon and John Curtis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	765
Assyrians after the Fall: Evidence from the Ebabbar of Sippar John Mac-Ginnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	781
Prayer and Praise in the City of Assur Frances Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	797

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: March 24, 2017
ISBN: 9781575064741