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From the upper sea to the lower sea : studies on the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honour of A.K. Grayson / edited by Grant Frame ; with the assistance of Linda S. Wilding.

Contributor(s): Grayson, Albert Kirk | Frame, Grant | Wilding, Linda SMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 101.Publication details: Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004. Description: xxvii, 293 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cmISBN: 9062583121 (pbk.)Other title: Studies on the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honour of A.K. GraysonSubject(s): Grayson, Albert Kirk | Assyria -- History | Babylonia -- HistoryGenre/Form: Festschriften | History | Festschrifts (form) | Festschriften | FestschriftenLOC classification: DS73.2 | .F764 2004
Contents:
A. Kirk Grayson : biography / R.F.G. Sweet -- The Babylonian Fürstenspiegel as a political forgery / R.D. Biggs -- The titles of Tukulti-Ninurta I after the Babylonian campaign : a re-evaluation / B. Cifola -- Tell ʻAcharneh in the middle Orontes Valley and the Assyrian presence in Syria / E. Cooper, M. Fortin -- Maceheads from Tell Mohammed in the British Museum / J. Curtis -- Appendix : Scientific examination and analysis of three maceheads and two armlets from Tell Mohammed / D.R. Hook, M.R. Cowell -- Selected Middle Assyrian private letters housed at istanbul / V. Donbaz -- LKA 62 : Parodie eines assyrischen Feldzugsberichts / D.O. Edzard -- The order of the wall slabs with the Annals of Sargon II in Room V of the Palace at Khorsabad / G. Frame -- Geographical notes on the land of Akkad / D. Frayne -- Geschichte als Bauwerk : der Aššurtempel und das assyrische Geschichtsbewusstsein / H.D. Galter -- Royal inscriptions from the folios of Sidney Smith / A.R. George -- Two fragmentary inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II / A. Harrak -- The new Sargon stele from Hama / J.D. Hawkins -- On the use of year-names in reconstructing the history of the First Dynasty of Babylon / M.J.A. Horsnell -- A. Leo Oppenheim's children of the institute / A.D. Kilmer -- The enigma of Tukulti-Ninurta I / W.G. Lambert -- Three Babylonian chronicle and scientific texts / E. Leichty, C.B.F. Walker -- Assyria in the ninth century : continuity or change? / M. Liverani -- Desperately trying to talk sense : a letter of Assurbanipal concerning his brother Šamaš-šumu-ukin / S. Parpola -- Il-yadaʼ and Sargon's southeast frontier / J.N. Postgate, R.A. mattila -- The Assyrians as collectors : from accumulation to synthesis / J. Reade -- An Assyrian victory chant and related matters / H. Tadmor -- Darius I, commander-in-chief : Bisitun I:35 to III:92 as military history / T.C. Young -- Bibliography of publications by A.K. Grayson / H. Grau, J.R. Novotny.
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Festschrift.

20 English, 2 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.

A. Kirk Grayson : biography / R.F.G. Sweet -- The Babylonian Fürstenspiegel as a political forgery / R.D. Biggs -- The titles of Tukulti-Ninurta I after the Babylonian campaign : a re-evaluation / B. Cifola -- Tell ʻAcharneh in the middle Orontes Valley and the Assyrian presence in Syria / E. Cooper, M. Fortin -- Maceheads from Tell Mohammed in the British Museum / J. Curtis -- Appendix : Scientific examination and analysis of three maceheads and two armlets from Tell Mohammed / D.R. Hook, M.R. Cowell -- Selected Middle Assyrian private letters housed at istanbul / V. Donbaz -- LKA 62 : Parodie eines assyrischen Feldzugsberichts / D.O. Edzard -- The order of the wall slabs with the Annals of Sargon II in Room V of the Palace at Khorsabad / G. Frame -- Geographical notes on the land of Akkad / D. Frayne -- Geschichte als Bauwerk : der Aššurtempel und das assyrische Geschichtsbewusstsein / H.D. Galter -- Royal inscriptions from the folios of Sidney Smith / A.R. George -- Two fragmentary inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II / A. Harrak -- The new Sargon stele from Hama / J.D. Hawkins -- On the use of year-names in reconstructing the history of the First Dynasty of Babylon / M.J.A. Horsnell -- A. Leo Oppenheim's children of the institute / A.D. Kilmer -- The enigma of Tukulti-Ninurta I / W.G. Lambert -- Three Babylonian chronicle and scientific texts / E. Leichty, C.B.F. Walker -- Assyria in the ninth century : continuity or change? / M. Liverani -- Desperately trying to talk sense : a letter of Assurbanipal concerning his brother Šamaš-šumu-ukin / S. Parpola -- Il-yadaʼ and Sargon's southeast frontier / J.N. Postgate, R.A. mattila -- The Assyrians as collectors : from accumulation to synthesis / J. Reade -- An Assyrian victory chant and related matters / H. Tadmor -- Darius I, commander-in-chief : Bisitun I:35 to III:92 as military history / T.C. Young -- Bibliography of publications by A.K. Grayson / H. Grau, J.R. Novotny.