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Beyond Hatti : a tribute to Gary Beckman

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
eBook, English, 2013
Lockwood Press, Atlanta, 2013
Festschriften
1 online resource (xxvii, 367 pages) : illustrations
9781937040284, 1937040283
882106763
Print version:
The West Hurrian pantheon and its background / Alfonso Archi
Adapting Mesopotamian myth in Hurro-Hittite rituals at Hattuša : IŠTAR, the underworld, and the legendary kings / Mary R. Bachvarova
The R̥gvedic Ghoṣā hymns and the Atirātra / Joel P. Brereton
The place of KBo 13.145 in the Hantitašša text tradition / Billie Jean Collins
A diplomatic marriage in the Ramesside period : Maathorneferure, daughter of the Great Ruler of Hatti / Marjorie Fisher
Albert T. Clay and his Babylonian Collection / Benjamin R. Foster
"The King's speech" : royal rhetorical language / Harry A. Hoffner, Jr
A Sanskrit riddle in three movements : Rig Veda V.84 / Stephanie W. Jamison
Luvian language in "Luvian" rituals in Hattuša / H. Craig Melchert
The steward of Divine Gudea and his family in Ur III Girsu / Piotr Michalowski
Le rituel d'Allī d'Arzawa contre un ensorcellement (CTH 402) : une nouvelle édition / Alice Mouton
Accounting for gold in a period of unrest / Elizabeth E. Payne
An essay on scribal families, tradition, and innovation in thirteenth-century Ugarit / Carole Roche-Hawley and Robert Hawley
Prologues and poets : on the opening lines of the Gilgamesh epic / Jack M. Sasson
The social matrix of early Judean magic and divination : from "top down" or "bottom up"? / Brian B. Schmidt
The Umma field Ušgida and the question of GARšana's location / Piotr Steinkeller
The Divine Gudea on Ur III seal images / Claudia E. Suter
Dig dogs and camp cats at Karanis : the animals of the 1924-1935 University of Michigan expedition to Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong
Texts and royal seals of the Middle Hittite period from the "House of the Chief of the Guards" at Hattuša / Gernot Wilhelm
Chiefly in English; one essay in French