The El-Amarna correspondence : a new edition of the cuneiform letters from the site of El-Amarna based on collations of all extant tablets /
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2 volumes ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004281455 (set : hardback : alk. paper)
9789004281479 (hardback : volume 1)
9789004281462 (hardback : volume 2)
9789004281547 (e-book)
Die Ägyptisch-hethitische Korrespondenz aus Boghazköi in babylonischer und hethitischer Sprache /
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Contains the correspondence of Ramses II with Hattusilis III and his consort, Puduhepa.
In Hittite or Akkadian with German translations ; editorial matter in German. :
2 volumes : ill. (some folded) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
3531050915 (Gesamtwerk)
3531051113 (Bd. 1)
3531051121 (Bd. 2)
The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East /
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"This book is published to accompany the touring exhibition, "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia" at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 9 March-28 April 2013 ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 3 May-14 June 2013 ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 20 June-4 August 2013; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 9 August-22 September 2013 ; and J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles, 2 October-2 December 2013." -- T.p. verso
English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder text : pages 42-43. :
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-144). :
9780714111872 :
Omnia
Corpus of Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals /
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Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia. \'Now that we have the second volume, we the more admire the thoughtful organisation of the entire project, the strict methods followed, and the insightful observations and decisions made.\' Martin Stol, Bibliotheca Orientalis lxxIV n° 3-4, mei-augustus 2017
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1 online resource : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004318557 :
1566-7952 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Weather omens of Enūma Anu Enlil : thunderstorms, wind and rain (tablets 44-49) /
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The Assyro-Babylonian omen series Enūma Anu Enlil , written on seventy cuneiform tablets, bears witness to the early understanding of the mutual interactions of heaven and earth on both the physical and the religious levels. To facilitate accessibility, technical and linguistic commentaries as well as an excerpt series were compiled by the scholars of old. This ancient knowledge, which was still largely characterized by mythological concepts, was never completely abandoned, not even when the 'calculating' astronomy became prevalent in the first millennium B.C. The series deals in four parts with the moon, the sun, weather phenomena, and fixed stars and planets. This book offers an edition of the texts of the second half of the weather section with the accompanying material.
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1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004225992 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Corpus of Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals.
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Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia. This is the first volume in the three-part Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals series . Volumes two and three are expected in 2015 and 2018 respectively. \'Even in its incomplete form, Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals is a major contribution to the study of witchcraft, supernatural belief, folk medicine (both supernatural and non-supernatural), theories of magic, incantations, and ritual. This edition is required reading for any scholar with an interest in these topics.\' David Elton Gay, Indiana University
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004214897 :
1566-7952 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Writing science before the Greek s a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN /
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The beginnings of written science have long been associated with classical Greece. Yet in ancient Mesopotamia, highly-sophisticated scientific works in cuneiform script were in active use while Greek civilization flourished in the West. The subject of this volume is the astronomical series MUL.APIN, which can be dated to the seventh century BCE and which represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian observational astronomy. Writing Science before the Greeks explores this early text from the perspective of modern cognitive science in an effort to articulate the processes underlying its composition. The analysis suggests that writing itself, through the cumulative recording of observations, played a role in the evolution of scientific thought. \'All in all, the authors should be congratulated for this groundbreaking study. Apart from significant new insights into MUL.APIN it has opened up a new avenue for research on ancient scientific texts that is likely to yield further interesting results, particularly if the cognitive analysis is combined with other approaches.\' Mathieu Ossendrijver, Humboldt University
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004202313 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The El-Amarna correspondence : a new edition of the cuneiform letters from the site of El-Amarna based on collations of all extant tablets /
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The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004281547 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Briefe aus der Leidener Sammlung (TLB IV) /
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Contains a transcription of the 116 Assyro-Babylonian letters of the Sammlung Le Liagre B�ohl in the Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten Leyden, and a German translation on facing pages.
Letters 1-111 issued also as pt. 4 of Tabulae Cuneiformes a de Liagre B�ohl collectae (TLB IV). :
vi, 79 pages ; 25 cm