Table of Contents
Edition of MS 3370 Andrew George viii
Preface xiii
Bibliography of Miguel Civil (1991-2016) xvii
Tabula Gratulatoria xxi
"As I write this letter to you": An Attempt at the Letter from Nanna-manšum to Rim-Sîn? Nicole Brisch 1
À tâtons dans le noir: À la recherche du sens de habatum Antoine Cavigneaux 12
"Enlil and Namzitara" Reconsidered Jerrold S. Cooper 37
'Let me be your canal': some thoughts on agricultural landscape and female bodies in Sumero-Akkadian sources M. Erica Couto-Ferreira 54
The Eridu Project (AMEr) and a Singular Brick-Inscription of Amar-Suena from Abu Šahrain Franco D'Agostino 70
The Silences of the Scribes, Pt. II: An Unfinished Enlil Lament from Nippur Paul Delnero 80
A New Seal of the Scribe Ur-Nanše from Girsu Gertrud Farber 103
Texts and Workers Lluís Feliu Adelina Millet Albà 110
Emesal studies today: a preliminary assessment Agnès Garcia-Ventura 145
Royal Nurses and Midwives in Presargonic Lagaš Texts Fumi Karahashi 159
The Hymn to the Ekur: Its Literary Structure and Cultic Background Jacob Klein 172
Game of Thrones: the Years when Šu-Sin Succeeded Amar-Suen in the Kingdom of Ur Bertrand Lafont 189
Literary Journeys from Babylonia to Assyria: Second Millennium Copies of a Bilingual Poem Concerning Ninurta Piotr Michalowski 205
New Data on Garšana and the Border Zone between Umma and Girsu/Lagaš Manuel Molina Piotr Steinkeller 231
A New Silver Balanced Merchant Account from Umma David I. Owen 250
A Middle Babylonian Sumerian Fragment of the Ad a pa Myth from Nippur and an Overview of the Middle Babylonian Sumerian Literary Corpus at Nippur Jeremiah Peterson 262
Sumerian Temples and Arabian Horses: On Sumerian e2-gal Gonzalo Rubio 284
To Carry Coals to Newcastle or Observations Concerning Sign Formation as an Early Concept in Mesopotamian "Commentaries" Gebhard J. Selz 300
Cuneiform Tablets and Other Inscribed Objects from Collections in Jerusalem Marcel Sigrist Uri Gabbay Mark Avila 311
On Images, Visibility, and Agency of Early Mesopotamian Royal Women Claudia E. Suter 337
Words and Grammar: Two Old Babylonian Lists Niek Veldhuis 363
The Seven Attendants of Hendursaga: A study of animal symbolism in Mesopotamian cultures Lorenzo Verderame 396
The Abacus in Mesopotamia: Considerations from a Comparative Perspective Christopher Woods 416
Index of texts and compositions discussed 479
Index of words and terms discussed 487
Index of personal names discussed 492
