The Moon Watching Over the Sun and Venus: Revisiting the Attributes and Functions of Nanna/Sîn in Mesopotamia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Program xxi
6. Welcome to Participants of the 62^nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 1
7. Plenary Papers
8. Woolley’s Excavations at Ur: New Perspectives from Artifact Inventories, Field Records, and Archival Documentation 7
9. Sîn-City: New Light from Old Excavations at Ur 35
10. Bad Moon Rising: The Changing Fortunes of Early Second-Millennium BCE Ur 49
11. Conference Papers
12. The Moon Watching Over the Sun and Venus: Revisiting the Attributes and Functions of Nanna/Sîn in Mesopotamia 91
13. Detecting Social Tensions in the Archaeological Record: Official and Vernacular Figurine-Making Traditions at Ur in the First Millennium BCE 105
14. Old Babylonian Terracottas from Ur: Ancient and New Perspectives 135
15. The City of Ur and the Neo-Babylonian Empire 153
16. The Ziqqurats of Ur and Babylon and the Place Where the Ark Moors After the Flood (The Epic of Gilgameš XI 158) 171
17. Epigraphy of Ur: Past, Present, and Future 181
18. Signs from Silence: Ur of the First Sumerians (Late Uruk Through ED I) 195
19. Breakers and Enforcers of the Oath of the King 205
20. Utopic and Dystopic Images in Mesopotamian Literature: The Conflict Between Order and Chaos in Ur III 219
21. In Search of Ur in iqqur īpuš 233
22. The Kingdom as Sheepfold: Frontier Strategy Under the Third Dynasty of Ur; A View from the Center 245
23. From Uruk to Ur: Automated Matching of Virtual Tablet Fragments 253
24. The City of Ur: The Possibilities for Statistical Analysis on the Use of Space in Domestic Households 263
25. Trace Elements and Isotopes: The Origin of Gold from Ur from a Geochemical Point of View 273
26. Science and Technology: Using Ur-Online to Aid in Scientific Analysis 293
27. Towards Archival Reconstruction of Ur III Cuneiform Tablets 309
28. Excavating Ur in Children’s Literature 315
29. Aspekte der Sklaverei im altbabylonischen Ur: Untersuchungen zu den a-ru-a-Texten 329
30. Glyptic Art from the Ur III to the Šimaški Periods: Heritage and Overtaking of the Models 341
31. The Status of Real Estate in Neo-Babylonian Ur: The Case of the Gallābu Family 371
32. Palace and “Private” Sectors in Old Babylonian Ur 379
33. Materiality and Mark-Making: Sealing and Community in Early Dynastic Ur 395
34. Eclipse of a King: A New Interpretation of the Bull-Headed Lyre 419
35. Local and Imported Religion at Ur Late in the Reign of Shulgi 429
36. The Third Millennium Banquet Scene at Ur and Its Archaeological Correlates 441
37. New Excavations at Ur 475
38. Ur and Other Cities in Some Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names: The Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Periods 485
39. Implications of Intertextuality: Erra and Išum and the Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur 503
40. Was the Karzida of Ur’s Akītu Festival at Tell Sakhariya? 525