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...
Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical...
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the image of "enemy" in Assyrian state ideology, based on royal titles attested in Assyrian documents from Old Assyrian through Neo-Assyrian times, the narratives...
The standard Babylonian series Maqlu, "Burning," comprises eight tablets of incantations in which the text of almost one hundred Akkadian incantations is recorded, and a ritual tablet in which the incantations...
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 a fallen souffle) are the result of evil demons...
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,...
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,...
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...
This study investigates inter-, hyper- and architextual (or "transtextual") poetics within the corpus of Assyrian royal narrative texts. The first section outlines a method of transtextual analysis tailored...
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...
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...
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...
Egypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopotamia...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Variation is a prerequisite of change ...without synchronic variation, change would not have a launching pad." Thus says Raimo Anttila in his Historical and Comparative Linguistics. The problem with ancient...
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,...
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 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 both texts written in Neo-Assyrian and their grammar,...
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 during the third through fifth decades...
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 translation. The present volume is...
This third volume in the SAACT series presents both the cuneiform text and transliteration of the Anzu epic, which describes the battle between the god Ninurta and monster Anzu. Complete glossaries, name...
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts. Volume IV
Enuma Elish
Long anticipated, this edition of the Enuma Elish contains an introduction, facsimile cuneiform text...
