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This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for his friendship. Reflecting on the remarkable breadth of the honoree’s research interests, the twenty-six original papers in this Festschrift cover a wide range of topics in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian literature, economic and social history, as well as art and archaeology.
This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for his friendship. Reflecting on the remarkable breadth of the honoree’s research interests, the twenty-six original papers in this Festschrift cover a wide range of topics in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian literature, economic and social history, as well as art and archaeology.
Contents
Bibliography of the works of Benjamin R. Foster
Archi, A. “The God Hay(y)a (Ea/Enki) at Ebla”
Caubet, A. “Or, Pierres Precieuses et Artifices”
Charpin, D. “Un Nouveau ‘Protocole de Serment’ de Mari”
Czechowicz, N. and Dandamayev, M. “A Late Achaemenid Document from
Tapshuhu”
Dalley, S. “Old Babylonian Prophecies at Uruk and Kish”
Darnell, J. “A Midsummer Night’s Succubus – the Herdsman’s
Encounters in P. Berlin 3024, the Pleasures of Fishing and Fowling,
the Songs of the Drinking Place, and the Ancient Egyptian Love
Poetry”
Foster, K. P. “Well-tempered Words: Ceramic Metaphors in
Mesopotamian Literature”
Frahm, E. “The Latest Sumerian Proverbs”
Garfinkle, S. “Merchants and State Formation in Early
Mesopotamia”
George, A. “The Assyrian Elegy: form and meaning”
Glassner, J.-J. “L’ordre de Lecture des Presages sur le Foie de
L’animal Sacrifie”
Leichty, E. “Dream On”
Liverani, M. “’Untruthful Steles’: Propaganda and Reliability in
Ancient Mesopotamia”
Manassa, C. “Defining Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt”
Matthiae, P. “The Seal of Ushra-Samu, Official of Ebla, and
Ishkhara’s Iconography”
Payne, E. “A New Addition to the Musical Corpus”
Pearce, L. “Sealed Identities”
Richardson, S. “A Light in the Gagûm Window: The Sippar Cloister in
the Late Old Babylonian Period”
Rochberg, F. “Sheep and Cattle, Cows and Calves: the
Sumero-Akkadian Astral Gods as Livestock”
Sasson, J. M. “Coherence and Fragments: Reflections on the SKL and
The Book of Judges”
Schwartz, G. Early Non-cuneiform Writing? Third-millennium BC Clay
Cylinders from Umm el-Marra”
Sigrist, M. “ Myth, Magic, and Ritual”
Van De Mieroop, M. “A Study in contrast: Sargon of Assyria and Rusa
of Urartu”
Visicato, G. “The Career of Ur-Bagara as a Chronological Indicatior
of the Documents of Girsu from Šarkališarri to Gudea”
Westenholz, A. “What’s New in Town?”
Westenholz, J. “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes”
Sarah C. Melville, Ph.D.(1994) Yale University, is Associate
Professor of History at Clarkson University. She has published on
Neo-Assyrian military history, imperial expansion and collapse, and
royal women, including The Role of Naqia/Zakutu in Sargonid
Politics (1999).
Alice L. Slotsky, Ph.D. (1992) Yale University, is a Research
Affiliate in Assyriology at Yale. Her studies of Late Babylonian
prices include The Bourse of Babylon (1997) and Tallies and Trends
(2009). She now devotes her research to Babylonian cuisine.
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