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Includes 56 b/w illustrations.
This collection of essays honours the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. The essays traverse ancient Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and beyond. Beckman’s interest in the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by the Hittites in particular inspired this offering.
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Table of Contents
Publications of Gary Beckham
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The West Hurrian Pantheon and Its Background, Alfonso Archi
2. Adapting Mesopotamian Myth in Hurro-Hittite Rituals at Hattusa: ISTAR, the Underworld, and the Legendary Kings, Mary R. Bachvarova
3. The Rgvedic Ghosa Hymns and the Atiratra, Joel P. Brereton
4. The Place of KBo 13.145 in the Hantitassu Text Tradition, Billie Jean Collins
5. A Diplomatic Marriage in the Ramesside Period: Maathorneferure, daughter of the Great Ruler of Hatti, Marjorie Fisher
6. Albert T. Clay and His Babylonian Collection, Benjamin R. Foster
7. "The King's Speech": Royal Rhetorical Language, Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.
8. A Sanskrit Riddle in Three Movements Rig Veda V.84, Stephanie W. Jamison
9. Luvian Language in "Luvian" Rituals in Hattusa, H. Craig Melchert
10. The Steward of Divine Gudea and His Family in Ur III Girsu, Piotr Michalowski
11. Le rituel d'Alli d'Arzawa contre un ensorcellement (CTH 402): une nouvelle edition, Alice Mouton
12. Accounting for Gold in a Period of Unrest, Elizabeth E. Payne
13. An Essay on Scribal Families, Tradition, and Innovation in Thirteenth-Century Ugarit, Carole Roche-Hawley and Robert Hawley
14. Prologues and Poets: On the Opening Lines of the Gilgamesh Epic, Jack M. Sasson
15. The Social Matrix of Early Judean Magic and Divination: From "Top Down" or "Bottom Up"?, Brian B. Schmidt
16. the Umma Field Usgida and the Question of GARsana's Location, Piotr Steinkeller
17. The Divine Gudea on Ur III Seal Images, Claudia E. Sutr
18. Dig Dogs and Camp Cats at Karanis: The Animals of the 1924-1935 University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt, Terry G. Wilfong
19. Texts and Royal Seals of the Middle Hittite Period from the "House of the Chief of the Guards" at Hattusa, Gernot Wilhelm
Index of Ancient Sources
