The First Ninety Years : A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil

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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general. All submissions to SANER are thoroughly reviewed by scholars with acknowledged expertise in the subject matter. Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, it goes through the careful production process that has characterized books published by Walter De Gruyter since 1749. General Editor: Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Department of History, University Park, PA, USA. Editors: Nicole Brisch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Petra Goedegebuure, University of Chicago, USA. Markus Hilgert, Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, Germany. Amélie Kuhrt, University College London, UK. Peter Machinist, Harvard University, USA. Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan, USA. Cécile Michel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. Beate Pongratz-Leisten, New York University, USA. D.T. Potts, New York University, USA. Kim Ryholt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Contents......Page 9 Preface......Page 13 Bibliography of Miguel Civil5 (1991–2016)......Page 17 Tabula Gratulatoria......Page 21 “As I write this letter to you”: An Attempt at the Letter from Nanna-manšum to Rīm-Sîn?......Page 23 À tâtons dans le noir : À la recherche du sens de ḫabātum......Page 34 “Enlil and Namzitara” Reconsidered......Page 59 ‘Let me be your canal’: some thoughts on agricultural landscape and female bodies in Sumero-Akkadian sources......Page 76 The Eridu Project (AMEr) and a Singular Brick-Inscription of Amar- Suena from Abū Šahrain......Page 92 The Silences of the Scribes, Pt. II: An Unfinished Enlil Lament from Nippur......Page 102 A New Seal of the Scribe Ur-Nanše from Girsu......Page 125 Texts and Workers......Page 132 Emesal studies today: a preliminary assessment......Page 167 Royal Nurses and Midwives in Presargonic Lagaš Texts......Page 181 The Hymn to the Ekur: Its Literary Structure and Cultic Background......Page 194 Game of Thrones: the Years when Šu-Sin Succeeded Amar-Suen in the Kingdom of Ur......Page 211 Literary Journeys from Babylonia to Assyria: Second Millennium Copies of a Bilingual Poem Concerning Ninurta......Page 227 New Data on Garšana and the Border Zone between Umma and Girsu/Lagaš......Page 253 A New Silver Balanced Merchant Account from Umma......Page 272 A Middle Babylonian Sumerian Fragment of the Adapa Myth from Nippur and an Overview of the Middle Babylonian Sumerian Literary Corpus at Nippur......Page 284 Sumerian Temples and Arabian Horses: On Sumerian e2-gal......Page 306 To Carry Coals to Newcastle or Observations Concerning Sign Formation as an Early Concept in Mesopotamian “Commentaries”......Page 322 Cuneiform Tablets and Other Inscribed Objects from Collections in Jerusalem......Page 333 On Images, Visibility, and Agency of Early Mesopotamian Royal Women......Page 359 Words and Grammar: Two Old Babylonian Lists......Page 385 The Seven Attendants of Hendursaĝa: A study of animal symbolism in Mesopotamian cultures......Page 418 The Abacus in Mesopotamia: Considerations from a Comparative Perspective......Page 438 Index of texts and compositions discussed......Page 501 Index of words and terms discussed......Page 509 Index of personal names discussed......Page 514