Recently added articles from Journal of Cuneiform Studies:
INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY IN OLD ASSYRIAN SOCIETY
Jan 01, 2007; ... During more than two centuries in the early second millennium B.C., Assyrian traders, with their base in the city Assur on the Tigris, conducted an intensive commercial operation that took them to central Anatolia more than a thousand kilometers away. Here, on the plateau of Asia Minor, they ...
ON THE OLD BABYLONIAN UNDERSTANDING OF GRAMMAR: A REEXAMINATION OF OBGT VI-X
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts (OBGT) in MSL IV give a detailed picture of Sumerian verbal syntax as seen through the eyes of an Old Babylonian grammarian. The picture does not necessarily correspond to any "true" Sumerian syntax. The relevance of these texts lies in the fact that they are ...
[-ATR] HARMONY AND THE VOWEL INVENTORY OF SUMERIAN
Jan 01, 2007; ... It has long been accepted that Sumerian exhibited some form of vowel harmony, and early descriptions of Sumerian vowel harmony (Poebel 1931; Kramer 1936) framed that harmony data in the context of a six-vowel inventory. While the arguments in favor of vowel harmony are now accepted, the expanded ...
ARCHEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LOCALIZATION OF NARAM-SIN'S ARMANUM
Jan 01, 2006; ... One of the proudest achievements of the Akkadian king Naram-Sin was the conquest of Armanum and EbIa.1 These events are described in an Old Babylonian copy of an inscription on a monument erected in the city of Ur (UETl 275 = U 7756, IM 85461): Whereas, for all times since the creation ...
"ENKI IN NIPPUR": EIN BISLANG UNIDENTIFIZIERTES, MYTHOLOGISCHES FRAGMENT
Jan 01, 2006; ... Die beiden Tafelfragmente UET 6/1 29 und 30, obgleich schon seit Jahren bekannt, haben bislang wenig Beachtung gefunden. Während meiner Arbeit an den Kollationen von UET 6/1-2 und der Herausgabe von UET 6/3, konnte ich zunächst UET 6/1 30 mit UET 6/3 499 (*100) "joinen" und damit als Duplikat zu ...
GENRE, GENDER, AND THE SUMERIAN LAMENTATION
Jan 01, 2006; ... T. K-K in memoriam In a trail-blazing 1986 article on genre in Mesopotamian literature, H. Vanstiphout, building on the theories of A. Fowler, discussed the threestage "pattern of the natural 'life' " of Sumerian historical (or city) laments.1 LSUr represents a "primary, or ...
LOVE OR DEATH? OBSERVATIONS ON THE ROLE OF THE GALA IN UR III CEREMONIAL LIFE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Jerrold Coopers fascinating and most important essay in this volume on the connections between the funerary functions of the gala in early Mesopotamia and the origins of what is usually referred to as the "Emesal dialect" focuses attention on the figure of this elusive cultic functionary.1 I ...
TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION BETWEEN BABYLONIA AND SUSA: A NEW SOLAR OMEN COMPENDIUM
Jan 01, 2006; ... Many questions remain about the early distribution, transmission, and stabilization of the Mesopotamian celestial omen traditions that coalesced to form the first-millennium series Enuma Anu Enlil (EAE).1 Despite the long evolution behind EAE, evident in the structure and scope of its various ...
LOVE REJECTED: SOME NOTES ON THE MESOPOTAMIAN EPIC OF GILGAMESH AND THE GREEK MYTH OF HIPPOLYTUS
Jan 01, 2006; ... I am called the Goddess Cypris: I am mighty among men and they honor me by many names. All those that live and see the light of sun From Atlas' pillars to the tide of Pontus Are mine to rule1 Scholars have long puzzled over why, in Euripides' Hippolytus, ...
A NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ACCORDING TO A DOCUMENT FROM NEO-BABYLONIAN URUK
Jan 01, 2006; ... I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol The image of a prison depends on the viewer. A citizen who believes in law and order sees it ...
NEUES VOM ASTRALMYTHOLOGISCHEN BERICHT BM 55466+
Jan 01, 2006; ... A. Datierung 1. Nachbesserung Mit meinem in JCS 56 erschienenen Beitrag, "Ein astralmythologischer Bericht aus der Zeit der Diadochenkämpfe" (Koch 2004) konnte erstmals nachgewiesen werden, daß die vom gejointen Text BM 55466+55486+55627 für Babylon überlieferten, in den Mythos ...
HITTITE FRAGMENTS OF THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM (ST. PETERSBURG)
Jan 01, 2006; ... In 1921 and 1925, V K. Silejko reported on fourteen cuneiform fragments from Bogazköy belonging to the N. P. Likhacev collection and provided transliterations and translations of eight tablets.1 Some years later, A. Götze published ten of the Likhacev fragments as VBoT 3-12.2 In Soviet times the ...
DIE ALTSUMERISCHE VOKALHARMONIE UND DIE VOKALE DES SUMERISCHEN
Jan 01, 2005; ... Der einzige groß angelegte Versuch die Vokalharmonie bei den Konjugationspräfixen e- und ì- im Altsumerischen zu deuten und damit auch den Vokalismus des Sumerischen insgesamt, liegt schon mehr als 70 Jahre zurück. Arno Poebels kühner Interpretation1 folgte nur noch die Dissertation von Samuel ...
DIPLOMACY AND THE RITUALS OF POLITICS AT THE UR III COURT
Jan 01, 2005; ... In the ancient Near East, as in more recent times, diplomacy served to link states together, creating a forum to air and resolve disagreements. Diplomacy was largely a man's world. Its aim was to establish and maintain the state of brotherhood between great kings.1 On one level, "brotherhood" ...
AN UR III TABLET FROM IRAN
Jan 01, 2005; ... The tablet published here is presently located in the Tehran Museum. It was confiscated by the authorities from a gentleman who claimed to have found it in a sack at the Tehran bus station. The Museum authorities turned it over to P Daneshmand for publication, who in turn solicited the ...
QUELQUES TEXTES SCOLAIRES PALÉO-BABYLONIENS RÉDIGÉS PAR DES FEMMES
Jan 01, 2005; ... À l'époque paléo-babylonienne, on peut répertorier plusieurs cas de femmes ayant pratiqué l'art scribal, surtout dans les milieux auxquels les hommes avaient un accès restreint. Deux corpus sont bien connus: d'une part, les tablettes trouvées dans les appartements des femmes du palais de Mari;1 ...
AN OLD ASSYRIAN TREATY FROM KÜLTEPE
Jan 01, 2005; ... The tablet published here, Kt 00/k 6, was excavated during the 2000 field season at Kiiltepe.1 It was found together with eighteen other tablets, including Kt 00/k10, a two-column treaty with Hahhum that was assigned for publication to Prof. Cahit Günbatti.2 Despite the abundance of ...
LITERATURES IN CONTACT: THE BALAG ÚRU ÀM-MA-IR-RA-BI AND ITS AKKADIAN TRANSLATION UET 6/2, 403
Jan 01, 2005; ... In memory of Aaron Shaffer (1933-2004), master of Ur The substrata of Akkadian literature in the Old Babylonian period are not yet well known. Two of the underlying layers of this literary corpus should apparently be sought in the royal inscriptions and court poetry of the Sargonic ...
INTERNALLY-HEADED RELATIVE CLAUSES IN AKKADIAN: IDENTIFYING WEAK QUANTIFICATION IN THE CONSTRUCT STATE
Jan 01, 2005; ... In a pair of recently published articles, Deutscher has argued that the early history of the relative clause in Akkadian is one fraught with dysfunction (2001, 2002). Old Akkadian relative clauses are described as "demonstrably dysfunctional" (2001: 405), "dysfunctional and maladaptive" (2002: ...
Esarhaddon, Egypt, and Shubria: Politics and Propaganda
Jan 01, 2005; ... In the winter of 673 B.C., at the end of Esarhaddon s seventh year, the Assyrian army set out to conquer Egypt. The campaign ended in what was probably one of Assyria's worst defeats.1 A few months later, Esarhaddon went to war against Shubria, a small kingdom at the foot of the Taurus ...