Strings and Threads: A Celebration of the Work of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

Published by Penn State University Press 2011

Strings and Threads

A Celebration of the Work of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

Edited by: Wolfgang Heimpel and Gabriella Szabo

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066615

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Anne Draffkorn Kilmer has had a long and fruitful career as an academic in Assyriology. After receiving her doctorate in Philadelphia and serving as assistant to Benno Landsberger in Chicago, she came to Berkeley in 1963 and stayed there for the long term, despite offers from other universities. During her career, in addition to her many contributions to Assyriology and ancient musicology, she served the university in various administrative functions. In Assyriology, her wide and varied interests included lexical texts, mathematics, animals, entertainment, and especially music. Her discoveries were often unexpected and dramatic.

In this volume, the essays presented in her honor focus on many of Prof. Kilmer’s primary interests. The contributions are divided into two sections, reflecting the title, “Strings and Threads.” The “strings” portion of the volume collects essays that follow her interest in musicology and related matters, especially “music archaeology.” It is well known that she studied ancient Hurrian, Mesopotamian, and Ugaritic texts containing musical notations and/or songs, and has been at the forefront of decipherment and explanation of these texts. And a number of essays in this volume address various aspects of ancient music, whether it be the lyrics of the songs or the pictorial representation of music-making or the language in which music is described. In the “threads” portion of the volume are collected essays on various aspects of Mesopotamian narrative literature, an area to which Anne contributed significant insight on the structure of compositions and verbal wordplay used by ancient authors. A number of the articles in the volume follow up on or parallel Prof. Kilmer’s work in this area.

Contributors include: G. Azarpay, D. Collon, J. Cooper, R. L. Crocker, D. Foxvog, E. Hickmann, A. B. Knapp, E. Leichty, S. L. Macgregor, S. B. Noegel, D. Pickworth, E. Robson, J. C. Ross, D. Schmandt-Besserat, D. Stronach, and R. L. Zettler. The volume concludes with a bibliography and an index of the works of A. D. Kilmer.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Imagery of the Manichean ‘Call’ on a Sogdian Funerary Relief from China Guitty Azarpay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chinless Wonders Dominique Collon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Puns and Prebends: The Tale of Enlil and Namzitara Jerrold S. Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
No Polyphony before a.d. 900! Richard L. Crocker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Aspects of Name-Giving in Presargonic Lagash Daniel A. Foxvog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
“Sweet Psalmist of Israel”: The Kinnôr and Royal Ideology in the United Monarchy John Curtis Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Music Archaeology as a Field of Interdisciplinary Research Ellen Hickmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Sound of Silence: Music and Musical Practice in Late Bronze–Iron Age Cyprus A. Bernard Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
A New Fragment of Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi Erle Leichty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Foreign Musicians in Neo-Assyrian Royal Courts Sherry Lou Macgregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
“Wordplay” in the Song of Erra Scott B. Noegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Dug Ubur-Imin: A Seven-Nipple Lid and Seven-Nipple Vessels Diana Pickworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Discovery of Professor von Saalbrandt: A Philadelphia Story Eleanor Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Lost: The Missing Lexical Lists of the Archaic Period Jennifer C. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Spirits and Demons of All Times Denise Schmandt-Besserat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
A Pipes Player and a Lyre Player: Notes on Three Achaemenid or Near-Achaemenid Silver Rhyta Found in the Vicinity of Erebuni, Armenia David Stronach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Banqueting and Music: An Early Dynastic I Sealing from Nippur Richard L. Zettler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Bibliography of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer’s Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer’s Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: June 23, 2011
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