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Subtitle: Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster
By: edited by Sarah C. Melville and Alice L. Slotsky
Contributors: Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read)
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- volume 42; Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- v. 42.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9789004186521
Subjects: Assyro-Babylonian literature; Religion; Sumerian literature; Literatures; Akkadian language; History and criticism; Egyptian language
Other titles: Near Eastern studies in honor of Benjamin R. Foster
Notes: "Bibliography of the works of Benjamin R. Foster": p. [5]-13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Light in the Gagûm window: the Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian period  -- S. Richardson; title: Sheep and cattle, cows and calves: the Sumero-Akkadian astral gods as livestock  -- F. Rochberg; title: Coherence and fragments: reflections on the SKL and the Book fo Judges  -- J. Sasson; title: Early non-cuneiform writing? Third-millenium BC clay cylinders from Umm el-Marra  -- G. Schwartz; title: Myth, magic, and ritual  -- M. Sigrist; title: Study in contrast: Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu  -- M. Van de Mieroop; title: Career of Ur-Bagara as a chronological indicator of the documents of Girsu from Šarkališarri to Gudea  -- G. Visicato; title: What's new in town?  -- A. Westenholz; title: Drink to me only with thine eyes -- J. Goodnick Westenholz.