If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erie Verdun Leichty (Cuneiform Monographs)

CONTENTS......Page 8
FOREWORD......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
PUBLICATIONS OF ERLE VERDUN LEICHTY......Page 24
LISTS OF THERAPEUTIC PLANTS: AN OBSERVATION --- Tzvi Abusch......Page 30
THE ASTRONOMERS OF THE ESAGIL TEMPLE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC --- Paul-Alain Beaulieu......Page 34
THE USE OF OCCUPATION NAMES AS PATRONYMS IN THE KASSITE PERIOD: A FORERUNNER OF NEO-BABYLONIAN ANCESTRAL NAMES? --- J.A. Brinkman......Page 52
EARLY DYNASTIC PLAQUE FRAGMENTS --- Jeanny V. Canby......Page 74
BE5/PE-EN-ZE-ER......Page 84
A SMALL OLD BABYLONIAN ARMY OF A-PÍ-RU-Ú --- Mark E. Cohen......Page 92
CUNEIFORM STUDIES AT PENN: FROM HILPRECHT TO LEICHTY --- Barry L. Eichler......Page 116
WELL, DOG MY CATS! A NOTE ON THE URIDIMMU --- Richard S. Ellis......Page 140
THE SIZE AND VERSIONS OF INANNA’S DESCENT --- A.J. Ferrara......Page 156
ON AN IZBU VII COMMENTARY --- I. L. Finkel......Page 168
BM 129092: A COMMENTARY ON SNAKE OMENS --- Sally M. Freedman......Page 178
PRACTICE OR PRAXIS --- M.J. Geller......Page 196
BABYLONIAN TEXTS FROM THE FOLIOS OF SIDNEY SMITH, PART THREE: A COMMENTARY ON A RITUAL OF THE MONTH NISAN --- A.R. George......Page 202
ANOTHER ANCIENT ANTIQUARY --- William W. Hallo......Page 216
THE RETURN OF THE GOVERNOR Atsuko Hattori......Page 226
VISUALIZING TEXT: SCHEMATIC PATTERNS IN AKKADIAN POETRY --- Anne Draffkorn Kilmer......Page 238
AN “OLD AKKADIAN” SALE DOCUMENT OF UNKNOWN PROVENANCE --- Jacob Klein......Page 252
ENBILULU AND THE CALENDAR --- W.G. Lambert......Page 266
A STRAY NUZI TEXT FROM BELGIUM --- M.P. Maidman......Page 272
HOW TO READ THE LIVER—IN SUMERIAN --- Piotr Michalowski......Page 276
CUNEIFORM TEXTS IN UTAH COLLECTIONS --- D.I. Owen and E. Wasilewska......Page 288
THE MESOPOTAMIAN CONCEPTUALIZATION OF BIRTH AND THE DETERMINATION OF DESTINY AT SUNRISE --- J. Polonsky......Page 326
IF MARS COMES CLOSE TO PEGASUS … --- Erica Reiner......Page 342
NOMADS, BARBARIANS, AND SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT SOUTHWEST ASIA --- John F. Robertson......Page 354
OLD BABYLONIAN CELESTIAL DIVINATION --- F. Rochberg......Page 366
A WEAKNESS FOR HELLENISM --- JoAnn Scurlock and Farouk Al-Rawi......Page 386
THE CASE OF THE FAMILY THAT FLED --- T.M. Sharlach......Page 412
DROIT DE PÊCHE. TABLETTE ST. ÉTIENNE 26 --- Marcel Sigrist......Page 420
SOME EMAR LEXICAL ENTRIES --- ÅkeW. Sjöberg......Page 430
SOME FOOTNOTES TO THE HISTORY OF ASSYRIOLOGY: LEONARD WILLIAM KING OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA --- Clyde Curry Smith......Page 460
TWO NEO-BABYLONIAN TEXTS OF FOREIGN WORKMEN --- Ira Spar, Thomas J. Logan, James P. Allen......Page 472
PARYSATIS IN BABYLON --- Matthew W. Stolper......Page 492
F FOR FAKE? TWO EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN-LOOKING OBJECTS IN A SWISS COLLECTION --- Claudia E. Suter......Page 502
DIVINATION: THEORY AND USE --- Niek Veldhuis......Page 516
FOUR BROTHERS AND A THRONE --- M.W. Waters......Page 528
TIŠATAL AND NINEVEH AT THE END OF THE 3RD MILLENNIUM BCE --- Richard L. Zettler......Page 532
INDEX......Page 544