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Wisdom, Gods and Literature

Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W. G. Lambert

Edited by Andrew R. George and I. L. Finkel

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Wisdom, Gods and Literature

Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W. G. Lambert

Edited by Andrew R. George and I. L. Finkel

This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.

 

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This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.

Conception, Contraception, and Abortion in Ancient Mesopotamia - R. D. Biggs

surpu II, III, IV und VIII in ‘Partitur’ - Rykle Borger

Ein altbabylonischer Gilgames-Text aus Nippur - Antoine Cavigneaux und Johannes Renger

From the Epistolary of the Edubba - Miguel Civil

Inanna, le bon augure de Samsuiluna - J. J. A. Van Dijk

U 7804 // UET VI/1 26: ‘Gedicht von der Hacke’ - Dietz Otto Edzard

On Late Babylonian Medical Training - Irving L. Finkel

Incipits and Rubrics - M. J. Geller

Four Temple Rituals from Babylon - A. R. George

Murmuring in Mesopotamia - A. Kirk Grayson

Astronomical Cuneiform Texts in the Birmingham City Museum - Wayne Horowitz

Ningiszida’s Boat-Ride to Hades - Thorkild Jacobsen and Bendt Alster

A Compendium of Gall-Bladder Omens Extant in Middle Babylonian, Nineveh, and Seleucid Versions - Ulla Jeyes

On the Organized Release of Doves to Secure Compliance of a Higher Authority - A. Livingstone

Die Fruhjahrsfeierlichkeiten in Assur - Stefan M. Maul

Early Zodiologia and Related Matters - Erica Reiner

A New Look at Some Old Catalogues - Aaron Shaffer

Enkidu—the Noble Savage? - Aage Westenholz and Ulla Koch-Westenholz

An errata sheet is available for download.

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