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2007

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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Assyriological Studies 27

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… Learn More

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1997

Perspectives on Hittite Civilization: Selected Writings of Hans G. Güterbock

Editor(s): Harry A. Hoffner, Jr..

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Assyriological Studies 26

The thirty-three articles in this collection (originally published between 1948 and 1992) were chosen from the corpus of bibliographical items authored by Hans Gustav Güterbock over a span of more… Learn More

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1991

The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities

Author(s): Gregory McMahon.

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Assyriological Studies 25

The author discusses tutelary deities, who play a rather prominent role in the Hittite state cult ceremonies. The book includes critical editions and discussions of all the festival texts that… Learn More

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1991

The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard

Author(s): Hans G. Güterbock, Theo P. J. van den Hout.

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Assyriological Studies 24

PrefaceList of Abbreviations IBoT I 36 Commentary Glossary Learn More

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1987

Old Babylonian Letters from Tell Asmar

Author(s): Robert M. Whiting, Jr..

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Assyriological Studies 22

After more than a half a century since their discovery, the texts discovered at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna) have been published. Whiting takes the first step towards a systematic publication of the… Learn More

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1986

Kanissuwar: A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, May 27, 1983

Editor(s): Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., Gary M. Beckman.

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Assyriological Studies 23

This collection of eighteen essays, presented to one of the towering figures of Hittite and Anatolian studies, reflects the diversity and breadth of the scholarly interests of the honoree. Various… Learn More

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1980

Computer-Aided Analysis of Amorite

Author(s): Ignace J. Gelb.

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Assyriological Studies 21

Our knowledge of non-Akkadian Semitic dialects that we conventionally call Amorite is based almost exclusively on the analysis of proper names. The bulk of these names appears in cuneiform texts,… Learn More

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1976

Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on His Seventieth Birthday June 7, 1974

Editor(s): S. J. Lieberman.

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Assyriological Studies 20

The self-effacing editor of this volume, S. J. Lieberman, explains in his Foreword that to provide a fitting tribute to Jacobsen the usual “random collection of articles” was eschewed, and instead … Learn More

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1974

The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic

Author(s): Stephen Kaufman.

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Assyriological Studies 19

This book primarily examines the difference in lexical stock between the two languages. It naturally concentrates on etymology and on what the author calls “Mesopotamian Aramaic” — allied to Imperial… Learn More

1969

Sequential Reconstruction of Proto-Akkadian

Author(s): Ignace J. Gelb.

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Assyriological Studies 18

As indicated by the word "Proto-Akkadian" in the title of this monograph, the procedures of sequential reconstruction are applied here to the oldest recoverable stages of the Akkadian language. In… Learn More

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1969

Cuneiform Texts from Nippur: The Eighth and Ninth Seasons

Author(s): Giorgio Buccellati, Robert D. Biggs.

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Assyriological Studies 17

An extraordinary wealth of cuneiform documents has come to light in ten seasons of excavations at Nippur since World War II. The seasonal increments are necessarily irregular and somewhat accidental;… Learn More

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1965

Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, April 21, 1963

Editor(s): Hans G. Güterbock, Thorkild Jacobsen.

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Assyriological Studies 16

It is characteristic of the wide range of interests of Landsberger that the articles cover such a variety of fields. That some of them deal with general Semitics, Hebrew, or Phoenician indicates… Learn More

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1955

The Second Dynasty of Isin According to A New King-List Tablet

Author(s): Arno Poebel.

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Assyriological Studies 15

Although the new king list tablet published in this volume is rather small — for it measures only 5.8 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm — and although it has only nine short lines of writing, it is nevertheless of… Learn More

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1947

Miscellaneous Studies

Author(s): Arno Poebel.

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Assyriological Studies 14

The subjects of five investigations were published in this volume. (1) The city of Esa (Dur-Kuri-Galzu), (2) the “Schachtelsatz” construction of the Naram-Sin text RA XVI 157 f., (3) murnisqu and… Learn More

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1940

The System of the Quadriliteral Verb in Akkadian

Author(s): Alexander Heidel.

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Assyriological Studies 13

This volume was structurally organized in three main parts. In the first part the system quadriliteral verb outside of Akkadian including Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, and Ethiopic was described in brief… Learn More

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1940

Lamentation Over the Destruction of Ur

Author(s): Samuel N. Kramer.

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Assyriological Studies 12

This volume consists of eleven songs and 436 lines, which was both composed and inscribed some time during the Isin-Larsa-Babylon I period. The translation provided in the volume is reasonably… Learn More

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1940

The Chicago Syllabary and the Louvre Syllabary AO 7661

Author(s): Richard T. Hallock.

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Assyriological Studies 7

Although syllabary texts have been known and used since the earliest days of cuneiform study, they have on the whole failed to receive the critical analysis in print which alone can derive all the… Learn More

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1939

The Sumerian King List

Author(s): Thorkild Jacobsen.

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Assyriological Studies 11

The incentive to the studies here presented was furnished by the excavations of the Oriental Institute at Tell Asmar. When in the season of 1931/32 we opened up strata of Agade and Early Dynastic… Learn More

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1939

Studies in Akkadian Grammar

Author(s): Arno Poebel.

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Assyriological Studies 9

The decision to prepare the present publication resulted from Poebel’s connection with the Assyrian Dictionary Project of the Oriental Institute, for which he took responsibility in 1933. As a result… Learn More

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1938

Gilgamesh and the Ḫuluppu-Tree: A Reconstructed Sumerian Text

Author(s): Samuel N. Kramer.

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Assyriological Studies 10

This volume is composed of three main parts. In the first part, the reconstructed text and its translation are laid down. In the second part, the problems in the translation of Sumerian are presented… Learn More

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