Foreign Musicians in Neo-Assyrian Royal Courts

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. The Imagery of the Manichean ‘Call’ on a Sogdian Funerary Relief from China 1
6. Chinless Wonders 19
7. Puns and Prebends: The Tale of Enlil and Namzitara 39
8. No Polyphony before a.d. 900! 45
9. Aspects of Name-Giving in Presargonic Lagash 59
10. “Sweet Psalmist of Israel”: The Kinnôr and Royal Ideology in the United Monarchy 99
11. Music Archaeology as a Field of Interdisciplinary Research 115
12. Sound of Silence: Music and Musical Practice in Late Bronze–Iron Age Cyprus 121
13. A New Fragment of Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi 133
14. Foreign Musicians in Neo-Assyrian Royal Courts 137
15. “Wordplay” in the Song of Erra 161
16. Dug Ubur-Imin: A Seven-Nipple Lid and Seven-Nipple Vessels 195
17. The Discovery of Professor von Saalbrandt: A Philadelphia Story 207
18. Lost: The Missing Lexical Lists of the Archaic Period 231
19. Spirits and Demons of All Times 243
20. A Pipes Player and a Lyre Player: Notes on Three Achaemenid or Near-Achaemenid Silver Rhyta Found in the Vicinity of Erebuni, Armenia 251
21. Banqueting and Music: An Early Dynastic I Sealing from Nippur 275
22. Bibliography of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer’s Works 287
23. Index of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer’s Works 295