The House of Prisoners

Andrea Seri

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 2
• This book deals with the house of prisoners (bit asiri ) at the city of Uruk during the revolt against king Samsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi's son. T... Lees meer

Frontiers, Territories and the Making of Hittite Political Landscapes

Alvise Matessi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 32
• This monograph aims to explore the production of political landscapes in Anatolia under the Hittite rule (1650-1200 BCE). The focus of the research is... Lees meer

Religion and Ideology in Assyria

Beate Pongratz-Leisten

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 6
• Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the ... Lees meer

The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 13
• Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operati... Lees meer

Much ADO about Marduk

Jennifer Finn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 16
• Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible. This volume challenges that g... Lees meer

Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Salvatore Gaspa

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 19
• This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progre... Lees meer

Translation as Scholarship

Jay Crisostomo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 22
• In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scr... Lees meer

History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia

Piotr Steinkeller

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 15
• These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and th... Lees meer

Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 25
• Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees, animals, drinks, or seasons) try to establish their s... Lees meer

Officials and Administration in the Hittite World

Tayfun Bilgin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 21
• There are few studies that deal with an overall treatment of the Hittite administrative system, and various other works on its offices and officials h... Lees meer

Economy and Society of Ancient Mesopotamia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 35
• This study is a diachronic survey of the economy and society in ancient Mesopotamia from the Third through the First millennia, focusing on the rich w... Lees meer

How to Do Things with Tears

Paul Delnero

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 26
• In contrast to other traditions, cultic laments in Mesopotamia were not performed in response to a tragic event, such as a death or a disaster, but in... Lees meer

Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner)
• This volume honors Ran Zadok's work by focusing on his sustained interest in Mesopotamian social history. It brings together a rich array of scholarsh... Lees meer

Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

Martin Worthington

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 1
• Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the hi... Lees meer

Enki and the World Order

Jerrold S Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 31
• "Enki and the World Order," a Sumerian myth from the early second millennium BCE, depicts the god Enki's reconstitution of the Sumerian world after an... Lees meer

The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia

Odette Boivin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 20
• The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over S... Lees meer

Religion and Ideology in Assyria

Beate Pongratz-Leisten

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 6
• Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the ... Lees meer

Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology

Mattias Karlsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 10
• This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopota... Lees meer

Establishing Value

Vitali Bartash

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 23
• This book explores the reasons for which weights and scales were used to measure goods in Early Mesopotamia (ca. 3,200-2,000 BCE). The vast corpus of ... Lees meer

L'économie de la Babylonie à l'époque hellénistique (IVème - IIème siècle avant J.C.)

Julien Monerie

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 14
• Malgré l'intérêt porté par les hellénistes et les assyriologues à l'histoire économique de la Basse Mésopotamie durant les deux siècles de domination ... Lees meer

Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit

Gregorio Del Olmo Lete

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 4
• Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame o... Lees meer

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar

Maurizio Viano

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 28
• This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedn... Lees meer

A Year of Vengeance

Edward Stratford

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 17
• Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commer... Lees meer

The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia

Odette Boivin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) | nr. 20
• The Sealand kingdom arose from the rebellion against Babylonian hegemony in the latter half of the 18th century BCE., forcing it to share power over S... Lees meer