Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical...
Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question has...
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP XI
The standard Babylonian series Maqlu, "Burning," comprises eight tablets of incantations in which the text of almost one hundred Akkadian incantations is...
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume IX - SAACT 9
The Babylonian Theodicy is a lengthy dialogue between two learned men, the "Sufferer" and the "Friend," taking the form of an acrostic poem...
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. State Archives of Assyria. Volume II. SAA. Volume XX
The internal stability and cohesion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to a very considerable degree rested on the public...
Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP XXVI
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the image of "enemy" in Assyrian state ideology, based on royal titles attested in Assyrian documents...
State Archives of Asyria Cuneiform Text - SAACT V
Everyone knows that all the ills of life, from headaches to athlete's foot and from minor annoyances (like a broken shoelace) to major catastrophes (like...
State Archives of Assyria Studies - SAAS XXX
This study investigates inter-, hyper- and architextual (or "transtextual") poetics within the corpus of Assyrian royal narrative texts. The first section...
Egypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopotamia...
The present volume completes the critical edition of the political correspondence of Assurbanipal, the first part of which was published in SAA 21. The 163 letters...
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP 2014
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume X
Assyria's last great king Assurbanipal invested much time and effort ensuring that his accomplishments...
The Adapa myth is a literary work of ancient Mesopotamia with different versions in Sumerian and Akkadian. According to the Adapa myth, the sage and cook...
Although the impression may still linger that Assyrian women are hidden and unavailable for study, nothing could be farther from the truth. There is a rich...
Royal ideology played a very significant role in the constitution of ancient Near Eastern states, from Sumer, Akkad, and Ancient Egypt to the Assyrian, Babylonian,...
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume XII
The Poor Man of Nippur is a short tale of 160 lines, telling how a poor man wronged by the governor of his city,...
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts - SAACT IV
Enuma Elish
Long anticipated, this edition of the Enuma Elish contains an introduction, facsimile cuneiform text based on texts from Assurbanipal's...
SAAS XXXIII
State Archives of Assyria Studies. Volume XXXIII
The title "Queen of the Arabs" is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered...
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume XIII
This study presents a new and updated edition of the Great Hymn to Shamash, a two-hundred-line Akkadian hymn...
Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most fundamental challenges in learning any language-ancient or modern. While many classical languages offer student-focused vocabulary resources, Akkadian has lacked...
Part 1 of this dictionary presented Uralic etymologies for 3030 Sumerian words and morphemes corresponding to about two-thirds of the basic vocabulary of Sumerian included in the electronic version of...
Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, and with illustrations by Stephane D. Beaulieu
After many unsuccessful attempts to establish its linguistic affinity, Sumerian is nowadays widely considered a language isolate without any known relatives. However, a systematic comparison of its vocabulary...
This volume is a companion to The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (PNA), presenting a complete register of all individuals who are identified in the Neo-Assyrian sources by a personal name as...
The Babylonian Astrolabe, or "Three Stars Each (Month)," as it was called in antiquity, is an enigmatic document that has been the subject of much controversy...
State Archives of Assyria Studies - SAAS XVI
Variation is a prerequisite of change ...without synchronic variation, change would not have a launching pad." Thus says Raimo Anttila in his Historical and...
Assembling a complete list of extant personal names and all data related to those names (lexical meaning, geographical location, occupation, activities, and textual sources), Baker and her colleagues have...
Assembling a complete list of extant personal names and all data related to those names (lexical meaning, geographical location, occupation, activities, and textual sources), Baker and her colleagues have...
The final volume of the The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Assembling a complete list of extant personal names and all data related to those names (lexical meaning, geographical location, occupation,...
State Archives of Assyria Studies - SAAS XIII
The most recent monographic account of Neo-Assyrian grammar was published in 1912. Since that time a great deal of progress has been made in interpreting...
Assembling a complete list of extant personal names and all data related to those names (lexical meaning, geographical location, occupation, activities, and textual sources), Radner and her colleagues...
Assembling a complete list of extant personal names and all data related to those names (lexical meaning, geographical location, occupation, activities, and textual sources), Radner and her colleagues...
Steven Cole and Peter Machinist
The letters edited in this volume represent the correspondence of various priests and high temple officials in the Assyrian realm...
The State Archives of Assyria project is an ambitious computerized program that aims to present the entire extant corpus of Neo-Assyrian texts in transliteration and...
Amar Annus, and Alan Charles Lenz
SAACT 7 presents a new edition of Ludlul Bel Nemeqi, "the Babylonian poem of the righteous sufferer." This edition, based on all known tablets of the poem, offers the...
