From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary : Studies Presented to Robert D. Biggs
by Roth, Martha T.; Farber, Walter; Stopler, Matthew; Bechtolsheim, Paula VonFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-30
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Summary
Robert D. Biggs joined the staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) in 1963 after receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In June 2004, he celebrated his 70th birthday and retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; his service to the CAD, however, will continue until the final volume appears. To acknowledge and honor his forty-one years of extraordinary service to the Assyrian Dictionary as collaborator, associate editor, and editorial board member, contributions from some of his former and current CAD colleagues are assembled into the volume. It is fitting to revive this series, as the first volume, From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim, appeared forty years ago, in June 1964, and Biggs's contribution there was his first published article.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Editorial Note | p. ix |
| My Career in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology | p. xi |
| Bibliography of Publications by Robert D. Biggs | p. xxxv |
| Contributions | |
| Masculine or Feminine? The Case of Conflicting Gender Determinatives for Middle Babylonian Personal Names | p. 1 |
| Early Semitic Loanwords in Sumerian | p. 11 |
| Pecus Non Olet? Visiting the Royal Stockyards of Drehem During the First Month of Amarsu'ena 2 | p. 35 |
| Imgur-sin Und Seine Beiden Sohne: Eine (Night Ganz) Neue Altbabylonische Erbteilungsurkunde Aus Ur, Gefunden Wahrscheinlich in Larsa | p. 65 |
| A "Galleon" at Nippur | p. 81 |
| Liebes- Und Hundebeschworungen Im Kontext | p. 91 |
| Eine Verbalform Zum Nachdenken | p. 109 |
| A Brief Commentary on the Hittite Illuyanka Myth (CTH 321) | p. 119 |
| How to Make the Gods Speak: A Late Babylonian Tablet Related to the Microzodiac | p. 141 |
| Zum Imperativ Des Semitischen | p. 153 |
| Of Babies, Boats, and Arks | p. 159 |
| An Exotic Babylonian God-List | p. 167 |
| Going to the River | p. 173 |
| Esarhaddon's Exile: Some Speculative History | p. 189 |
| Samas of Sippar and the First Dynasty of Babylon | p. 193 |
| Another Harbinger of the Golden Age | p. 201 |
| On Amputation, Beating, and Illegal Seizure | p. 207 |
| On Sand Dunes, Mountain Ranges, and Mountain Peaks | p. 219 |
| Remarks on Some Sumerograms and Akkadian Words | p. 233 |
| Kasr Text's: Excavated-But Not in Berlin | p. 243 |
| Sisterly Advice on an Endangered Marriage in an Old Assyrian Letter | p. 285 |
| The True Shepherd of Uruk | p. 305 |
| The Paleography and Values of the Sign Kib | p. 325 |
| Clay Sealings from the Early Dynastic I Levels of the Inanna Temple at Nippur: A Preliminary Analysis | p. 343 |
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