Commemorating Art in the Old Babylonian Period - Benjamin R. Foster - SUD 5

In 8°, bross. edit., 132 pp. ill.ni b/n e coll.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 5
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Artisans, Workshops, and Royalty 18

Art in Old Babylonian Year Names
1. Royal Statues 25
2. Statues of Deities and Spirits 37
3. Thrones, Daises, Other Furniture, and Musical Instruments 39
4. Standards and Emblems 44
5. Vessels and Containers 47
6. Vehicles and Barges 48
7. Weapons and Implements 50
8. Representations of Nature 51
9. Crowns and Apparel for Divine Images 53
10. City Models 54
11. Architectural Elements 54

Conclusions 56
Figures 62

Appendix: List of Year Names Commemorating Art
Babylon 63
Eshnunna 79
Isin 87
Kish 93
Kisurra 93
Larsa 95
Malgum 99
Manana Dynasty 100
Marad 102
Mari 103
Nerebtum 104
Shaduppum 104
Tutub 105
Uruk 105
Miscellaneous 107
Bibliography 109
Table of Contents 129
 

Benjamin R. Foster is Laffan Professor of Assyriology at Yale University. His research interests include Mesopotamian social and economic structures (Umma in the Sargonic Period, 1982; Administration and Use of Institutional Land in Sargonic Sumer, 1982); primary text publication (Sargonic Tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum 1, 1982; 2, 2018; Sargonic Tablets from Umma in Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2019; Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection, 2020); cuneiform literature (Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, 1993, 1996, 2004; From Distant Days, 1995, 1998; The Epic of Gilgamesh, 2001, 2019, with Gary Beckman; Akkadian Literature of the Late Period, 2007); history (Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, 2009, with Karen Polinger Foster; The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia, 2016); and the evolution of Near Eastern studies (From New Haven to Nineveh and Beyond: Three Centuries of Near Eastern Learning at Yale, 2023).

“Sud. Altri Studi Assiriologici Messinesi” is a new
series of Assyriological monographies, which joins
its mother “Nisaba. Studi Assiriologici Messinesi”.
The latter one, now returned to Messina, after a
brief stay in Winona Lake, is intended to publish
the edition of new cuneiform tablets, the former one
to publish Assyriological studies of various content.

1. F. Pomponio, The Umma Messenger Texts,
Messina 2018
2. A. Rositani, Strumenti per la gestione
dell’allevamento nella Mesopotamia paleobabilonese:
le etichette, Messina 2019
3. E. Nitta, L’onomastica religiosa neo-assira:
aspetti qualitativi e quantitativi, riflessi
sociali e religiosi, Messina 2023
4. P. Notizia, A. Rositani, L. Verderame, Il
nuovo Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare
sull’Economia del Vicino Oriente antico
(CRIEVOA).