Never The Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface ix
4. Nicholas Postgate’s Publications (up to 2016) xiii
5. A Fragment of a Stele from Umma 1
6. In the Shade of the Assyrian Orchards 7
7. The Šu-Suen Year 9 sa₂-du₁₁ ku₅-ra₂ Flour Dossier from Puzriš-Dagan 25
8. To Eat Like a God: Religion and Economy in Old Babylonian Nippur 43
9. Remarks on the Earliest History of Horoscopy 55
10. A Ceramic Assemblage of the Early Literate Periods from Sumer 73
11. Stolen, Not Given? 85
12. Are We Any Closer to Establishing How Many Sumerians per Hectare? Recent Approaches to Understanding the Spatial Dynamics of Populations in Ancient Mesopotamian Cities 95
13. New Perspectives on ‘Early Mesopotamia’ 119
14. Of Arches, Vaults and Domes 127
15. Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (III) “Arameans” and Related Tribalists 133
16. Instruktionen Tukultī-Ninurtas I. 179
17. Gods, Temples, and Cult at the Service of the Early Hittite State 189
18. The Ending of the Çineköy Inscription 211
19. A New Palatial Ware or a Case of Imitation of Egyptian Pottery? The Brownish Red Slip (BRS) from Qatna and Its Significance within the Northern Levantine Ceramic Tradition of the Mid-Second Millennium BC 217
20. Building on the Past: Gertrude Bell and the Transformation of Space in the Karadağ 239
21. Studies in the Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic 255
22. The Temple of Salmānu at Dūr-Katlimmu, Nergal of Hubšalum, and Nergal-ereš 271
23. Between Slavery and Freedom 289
24. The King and His Army 301
25. Two Middle Assyrian Delivery Notes from the British Museum’s Tablet Collection 313
26. The Governors of Halzi-atbari in the Neo-Assyrian Period 321
27. Never The Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages 335
28. Piecing the Jigsaw... 355
29. A Palace for the King of Ereš? Evidence from the Early Dynastic City of Abu Salabikh, South Iraq 363
30. How Many Sumerians Does It Take to Put Out the Rubbish? 373
31. Volume 2
32. The Location of Raṣappa 393
33. Making Fire in Uruk-Period Abu Salabikh 413
34. A Neo-Assyrian Legal Document from Tell Sitak 423
35. The Assyrian Palace at Nabi Yunus, Nineveh 431
36. The Socio-Economics of Cuneiform Scholarship after the ‘End of Archives’: Views from Borsippa and Uruk 459
37. Eine Königskette im Heiligtum der Ištar von Assur 475
38. On the Tablet Trail: Herdsmen’s Employment for Royal Wives in the Ur III Period 481
39. An Expedition of King Shalmaneser I and Prince Tukultī-Ninurta to Carchemish 491
40. The Role of Stimulants in Early Near Eastern Society: Insights through Artifacts and Texts 507
41. An Estimate of the Population of the City of Umma in Ur III Times 535
42. How Many Mesopotamians per Hectare? . 567
43. The Terminology for Times of the Day in Akkadian 583
44. Counter-Archaeology’: Putting the Ur III Drehem Archives Back in the Ground 611
45. Meaning in Perspective: Some Akkadian Terms for ‘Foundation’— -uššu, temennu, išdu, duruššu 631
46. Nergal-eṭir’s Correspondence in the Light of BM 30205, and a Preliminary Edition of BM 36543, another Fragmentary Neo-Assyrian Letter in the Babylon Collection of the British Museum 651
47. Seven Debt-Notes of Anatolians from Ancient Kanesh 665
48. Oracle Bones at the Sichuan University Museum 685
49. Association of the Dog with Healing Power in Mesopotamia 689
50. Ugaritic Military Terms in the Light of Comparative Linguistics 699
51. Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism 721
52. Ein dritter Backstein mit der großen Inschrift des Königs Takil-ilissu von Malgûm und der Tonnagel des Ipiq-Ištar 737
53. Assur among the Gods of Urartu 753
54. Some Bronze Stamp Seals of Achaemenid Date 765
55. Assyrians after the Fall: Evidence from the Ebabbar of Sippar 781
56. Prayer and Praise in the City of Assur 797