From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 2: Studies Presented to Robert D. Biggs, June 4, 2004

Editor(s): Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber, Matthew W. Stolper, Paula von Bechtolsheim.

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Robert D Biggs joined the staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) in 1963 after receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In June 2004, he celebrated his 70th birthday and retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; his service to the CAD, however, will continue until the final volume appears. To acknowledge and honor his forty-one years of extraordinary service to the Assyrian Dictionary as collaborator, associate editor, and editorial board member, contributions from some of his former and current CAD colleagues are assembled into the volume. It is fitting to revive this series, as the first volume, From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to A Leo Oppenheim, appeared forty years ago, in June 1964, and Biggs’s contribution there was his first published article.

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Table of Contents

Foreword. Martha T. Roth
Editorial Note. Paula von Bechtolsheim
My Career in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Robert D. Biggs
Bibliography of Publications by Robert D. Biggs. Charles E. Jones and Paula von Bechtolsheim

Masculine or Feminine? The Case of Conflicting Gender Determinatives for Middle Babylonian Personal Names. John A. Brinkman
Early Semitic Loanwords in Sumerian. Miguel Civil
Pecus non olet?: Visiting the Royal Stockyards of Drehem during the First Month of Amarsuʾena 2. Gertrud Farber
Imgur-Sîn und seine beiden Söhne: Eine (nicht ganz) neue altbabylonische Erbteilungsurkunde aus Ur, gefunden wahrscheinlich in Larsa. Walter Farber
A “Galleon” at Nippur. McGuire Gibson
Love and Dogs. Brigitte Groneberg
Eine Verbalform zum Nachdenken. Hans Hirsch
A Brief Commentary on the Hittite Illuyanka Myth. Harry A. Hoffner
How to Make the Gods Speak: A Late Babylonian Tablet Related to the Micro-Zodiac. Hermann Hunger
Zum Imperative des Semitischen. Burkhart Kienast
“Of Babies, Boats, and Arks.” Anne Kilmer
An Exotic Babylonian God-List. Wilfred G. Lambert
“Going to the River.” Mogens Trolle Larsen
Some Speculative History. Erle V. Leichty
Shamash of Sippar and the First Dynasty of Babylon. Jennie Myers
The Best of Times. Erica Reiner
On Amputation, Beating, and Illegal Seizure. Martha T. Roth
On Sand Dunes, Mountain Ranges, and Mountain Peaks. Piotr Steinkeller
Remarks on Some Sumerograms and Akkadian Words. Marten Stol
Kasr Texts: Excavated, But Not in Berlin. Matthew W. Stolper
Sisterly Advice on an Endangered Marriage in an Old Assyrian Letter. K. R. Veenhof
The True Shepherd of Uruk. Joan Goodnick Westenholz
The Paleography and Values of the Sign KIB. Christopher Woods
Clay Sealings from the Early Dynastic I Levels of the Inanna Temple at Nippur: A Preliminary Analysis. Richard L. Zettler