Sumerian was the first identifiable written language of ancient Mesopotamia. Rare phonetic
complements and some rebus writings in the proto‐cuneiform Uruk texts testify to the …

Les rabats de jaquette indiquent:" When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we
typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. In Tracking the Master …

This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of
Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500 …

This book is a revised version of the dissertation I defended at the University of Toronto in
2016 for the obtention of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It could not have been written …

The illicit trade in antiquities and other cultural objects is socially harmful in several respects.
Private collectors and museums are generally considered culpable in providing end …

In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from
ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the …

Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des
Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten …

In Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry Selena Wisnom offers
an in-depth literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš …

In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically
incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their …

The history of war begins in ancient Iraq. The earliest reported conflict in human history was
fought by neighbouring city-states, Lagash and Umma, in the mid-third millennium BC. The …