David I. Owen

Contains 23 essays on the 2nd-millennium BC Near East as well as copies of new texts from Nuzi. Topics include chronology , excavation reports, Hurrian language, troop rosters, sealing practices, winged disks and sacred trees, the eating of pig, the use of marijuana, issues of ethnicity, and much more.

In Honor of David I. Owen on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, October 28, 2005

General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11/2

Bertrand Lafont

This volume presents critical editions of tablets from the Early Dynastic, Sargonic, Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Middle Babylonian periods, housed in the Jawad Adra Cuneiform Collection in the Nabu Museum in El Heri, Lebanon. Bringing together a wide range of administrative, literary, historical, and lexical texts, From Mesopotamia to Lebanon is a valuable survey of representative documents from the third and second millennia BCE in Mesopotamia. Culled from the most significant collection of cuneiform tablets in Lebanon, the documents published here mainly derive from southern Iraq. Despite a wide chronological span, internal evidence indicates that they likely originate from various sites in two main areas: the first close to the ancient bank of the Tigris River, in the ancient cities of Adab, Irisaĝrig, and Umma and their environs; the second along the bank of the Euphrates River, in and around the cities of Isin and Shuruppak. The presence of school and literary tablets within the archival group suggests that one or more of these sites contained a scribal school. Taken together, the texts of the Adra Collection cover one and a half millennia (2600-1100 BCE), from the early period of the Sumerian city-states to the time when the region was ruled successively by the kings of Akkad, followed by the kingdoms of Ur, Isin, Larsa, and, finally, Babylon. The two editors and six contributors represent an international group of scholars who provide critical editions of texts in their respective areas of expertise. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Alhena Gadotti, Alexandra Kleinerman, Camille Lecompte, Nordine Ouraghi, Jacques Quillien, and Wilfred van Soldt.

The Jawad Adra Cuneiform Collection in the Nabu Museum, El Heri, Lebanon

From Mesopotamia to Lebanon

Tohru Ozaki

Palmiro Notizia

The Lost and the Found. Cuneiform Collections Rediscovered. With Copies by Herbert Sauren

Gernot Wilhelm

Nuzi at Seventy-five

Richard Francis Strong Starr

Monographs and collections of essays on the history, religion, social life, and literature of northern Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C., when the Hurrians, a people with their own language and culture dominated much of northern Mesopotamia.

Richard F.S. Starr Memorial Volume

David I. Owen

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