2019, ISBN: 9789004262331

Leiden: Brill, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xiii, (1), 310pp. Indices and 23 page bibliography. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with 3 reconstructions of th… Mehr…

Leiden: Brill, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xiii, (1), 310pp. Indices and 23 page bibliography. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with 3 reconstructions of the Anu sanctuaries. A fine, as new copy. "With this study, Krul adds significantly to the research on Babylonian temple rituals in general, providing a useful methodology and survey of secondary sources.... This book offers an excellent in-depth analysis of the nocturnal fire ceremony as it could have been celebrated at Hellenistic Uruk. It forms a good starting-point for comparison with and further study of other Late Babylonian rituals from both Uruk and Babylon." - Céline Debourse, Vienna, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "The book is essentially a commentary on a late cuneiform text from 3rd-century BCE Uruk describing a nocturnal sacrificial ritual held annually on the winter solstice (16 Tevet). The text itself is well known, having first been published by F. Thureau-Dangin in his classic work Rituels accadiens (1921), but this book is the most comprehensive far-reaching commentary on this important text, with valuable extraneous information [...]. There is much valuable data in this book regarding late Babylonian ritual practice, couched in an informative narrative." -Markham J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019) In The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk, Julia Krul offers a comprehensive study of the rise of the sky god Anu as patron deity of Uruk in the Late Babylonian period (ca. 480-100 B.C.). She reconstructs the historical development of the Anu cult, its underlying theology, and its daily rites of worship, with a particular focus on the yearly nocturnal fire ceremony at the Anu temple, the Bt R¨. Providing the first in-depth analysis of the ceremony, Julia Krul convincingly identifies it as a seasonal renewal festival with an important exorcistic component, but also as a reinforcement of local hierarchical relationships and the elite status of the Anu priesthood. (Publisher) Contents: The historical background of the Anu cult -- Theological and ideological aspects of the Anu cult -- The tablet (AO 6460) and the text (TU 41) -- The ritual's calendrical setting -- Analysis of TU 41 -- Interpretation of TU 41. This is Volume 95 of the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.", Brill, 2018, 5, London: The British Institute of Archaelogy at Ankara, 1957, 1964, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto. Two volumes. Pp. vi, 13, 142 [plates]; [vi], 36, 143-275 [plates]. Illustrated with 275 plates of text fragments of Assyrian cuneiform tablets, discovered at Sultantepe, a large mound near the modern Turkish city of Urfa. Original cloth over paper covered boards, no d/w's. A couple of corners bumped on volume II, neat ink signature on flyleaves, but otherwise a near fine set., The British Institute of Archaelogy at Ankara, 1957, 1964, 1957, 4, Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xiii, (1), 362pp. Indices and 13 page bibliography. Blue buckram lettered in white, with 1/2" yellow band at top. Illustrated with drawings of 8 cuneiform tablets at rear. In The Class Reunion-An Annotated Translation and Commentary on the Sumerian Dialogue Two Scribes, J. Cale Johnson and Markham J. Geller present a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes, Streit zweier Schulabsolventen or Dialogue 1. The two protagonists, the Professor and the Bureaucrat, each ridicule their opponent in alternating speeches, while at the same time scoring points based on their detailed knowledge of Sumerian lexical and literary traditions. But they also represent the two social roles into which nearly all graduates of the Old Babylonian Tablet House typically gained entrance. So the dialogue also reflects on larger themes such as professional identity and the nature of scholastic activity in Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 1800-1600 BCE). (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Position of The Class Reunion in the Old Babylonian Curriculum; Modeling Insult, Verbal Abuse and Moral Judgement; Recognizing Institutional Roles: The Grotesque in the Old Babylonian Edubba; Rites of Institution; Intratextual Commentary and the Genesis of Scholastic Values; Translating Scholastic Values into Social Histories; Chapter 2 Synthetic Text and Translation; Chapter 3 Textual Criticism and Methodology; Individual Manuscripts; Two-column Editions and the Prism; Extract Tablets.; Principles of Textual Criticism Used in this Edition. Manuscripts Used in the Synthetic Text; Non-preferred Variants Attested in Two or More Manuscripts; Chapter 4 Manuscripts, Partitur and Commentary; Manuscripts from Nippur; Manuscripts from Ur; Manuscripts from Sippar; Partitur and Commentary; The Professor's Initial Salvo (P1); The Bureaucrat's Interjection (B1); The Professor's Provocation (P2); The Bureaucrat's Linen-for-a-flea Speech (B2); The Professor's Lazy-slavegirl Speech (P3); The Bureaucrat's Beer-without-dregs Speech (B3); The Professor's Trading-in-your-mother Speech (P4); The Professor's Parrot-a-classic Speech (P5)The Bureaucrat's Kiln Speech (B4); The Professor's Oven-of-mankind Speech (P6); The Bureaucrat's Barley-roaster Speech (B5); The Professor's Face-to-face Speech (P7); The Bureaucrat's Feast-of-the-gods Speech (B6); The Professor's Ash-heap Speech (P8); The Bureaucrat's City-quarter Speech (B7); The Professor's Aide-de-camp Speech (P9); Bibliography; Index of Akkadian Words; Index of Sumerian Words; Subject Index; Plates. (OCLC) Volume 47 in the Brill series, "Cuneiform Monographs." (CM)., Brill, 2015, 5, Leiden: Brill, 2014. First edition. Octavo. vi, 260pp. Index. Text in English with some Hebrew. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with 2 maps, stylized street plans and 15 text figures. A fine, as new copy. "The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space." (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction: Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society?; The Cost of Cosmogony: Ethical Reflections on Resource Extraction, Monumental Architecture and Urbanism in the Sumerian Literary Tradition; Gates and their Functions in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel; City Streets: Reflections on Urban Society in the Cuneiform Sources of the Second and First Millennium BCE; The Babylonian Cities: Investigating Urban Morphology Using Texts and Archaeology; From bbnu to btnu, Looking for Spaces in Late Assyrian Palaces.; "Ich bin die Grenze der Agora." Zum kognitiven Stadtbild der Athener in klassischer ZeitReligiöse Topographie Roms: Der Aventin Innerhalb der Stadt und ausserhalb des Pomeriums; Index; Keywords; Personal and Divine Names; Geographical and Place Names; Sources; Words and Terms in Ancient Languages. This is Volume 68 in the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.", Brill, 2014, 0<

2014, ISBN: 9789004262331

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1988. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 280 pp. Yellow wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine. in 1954, M Cig H. Kizilay… Mehr…

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1988. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 280 pp. Yellow wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine. in 1954, M Cig H. Kizilay and A. Salonen published in transliteration seven hundred and twenty-five Ur III tablets from the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Now, thirty-five years later, Tohru Gomi and Fatma Yildiz have completed the task initiated by their predecessors providing us with transliterations of six hundred and fifty-three more tablets of the same type. The numbering of this book follows that of PDT 1 and the numbering is continuous, making it easier to refer to the texts. Short commentaries accompany the texts whenever necessary. All entries and forewords in German. Minor age wear to wrappers, book is in very good - near fine condition., Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1988, 3, Leiden: Brill, 2014. First edition. Octavo. vi, 260pp. Index. Text in English with some Hebrew. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with 2 maps, stylized street plans and 15 text figures. A fine, as new copy. "The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space." (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction: Urban Topography as a Reflection of Society?; The Cost of Cosmogony: Ethical Reflections on Resource Extraction, Monumental Architecture and Urbanism in the Sumerian Literary Tradition; Gates and their Functions in Mesopotamia and Ancient Israel; City Streets: Reflections on Urban Society in the Cuneiform Sources of the Second and First Millennium BCE; The Babylonian Cities: Investigating Urban Morphology Using Texts and Archaeology; From bbnu to btnu, Looking for Spaces in Late Assyrian Palaces.; "Ich bin die Grenze der Agora." Zum kognitiven Stadtbild der Athener in klassischer ZeitReligiöse Topographie Roms: Der Aventin Innerhalb der Stadt und ausserhalb des Pomeriums; Index; Keywords; Personal and Divine Names; Geographical and Place Names; Sources; Words and Terms in Ancient Languages. This is Volume 68 in the Brill series, "Culture and History of the Ancient Near East.", Brill, 2014, 0<