The First Ninety Years: A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil.

9781501511738

The First Ninety Years: A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil

Edited by LluAaAeAeAis Feliu, Fumi Karahashi, and Gonzalo Rub

De Gruyter

2017

493 pages

$196.00

Hardcover

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records; Volume 12

DS72

The 23 papers in this volume celebrate both Civil's 90th birthday and the 90th anniversary of Sumerology emerging as a distinct field within Assyriology and Ancient Near East studies. Among the topics are some thoughts on agricultural landscape and female bodies in Sumero-Akkadian sources, royal nurses and midwives in presargonic Lagas texts, a Middle Babylonian Sumerian fragment of the Adapa Myth from Nippur and an overview of the Middle Babylonian Sumerian literary corpus at Nippur, cuneiform tablets and other inscribed objects from collections in Jerusalem, and the seven attendants of Hendursaga: a study of animal symbolism in Mesopotamian cultures. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)