From the Banks of the Euphrates
Studies in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky
Edited by Micah Ross
Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests.
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1. KUR—When the Old Moon Can Be Seen a Day Later Lis Brack-Bernsen, Hermann Hunger and Christopher Walker
2. Remarks on Strassmaier Cambyses 400 John P. Britton
3. Ancient Chronology’s Alpha and Egyptian Chronology’s Debt to Babylon Leo Depuydt
4. Assyriology and English Literature Benjamin R. Foster
5. The Eyes of Nefertiti Karen Polinger Foster
6. Les Lais: or, What Ever Became of Mesopotamian Mathematics? Jens Hoyrup
7. House Omens in Mesopotamia and India Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
8. Anat for Nephthys: A Possible Substitution in the Documents of the Ramesside Period Jessica Lévai
9. Observations on the Diffusion of Military Technology: Siege Warfare in the Near East and Greece Sarah C. Melville and Duncan J. Melville
10. Two Ivory Carvings from Hierakonpolis Marie Passanante
11. The ‘Rough Draft’ of a Neo-Babylonian Accounting Document Elizabeth E. Payne
12. Mesopotamian Sexagesimal Numbers in Indian Arithmetic Kim Plofker
13. In Praise of the Just Erica Reiner
14. The Long Career of a Favorite Figure: The apsamikku in Neo-Babylonian Mathematics Eleanor Robson
15. A Short History of the Waters of the Firmament Francesca Rochberg
16. All’s DUR That Ends Twr Micah Ross
17. A Commentary Text to Enuma Anu Enlil 14 John M. Steele and Lis Brack-Bernsen
18. A New Stone Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II Ronald Wallenfels
19. Some Details on the Transmission of Astral Omens Clemency Williams
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