A R George

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ID3662282
NAMEA R George
GIVEN NAMESA R
FAMILY NAMEGeorge
SIGNATUREGEORGE A R
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Enkidu and the Harlot

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…2018

    This article presents a newly deciphered Old Babylonian fragment of the Epic of Gilgameš. The passages of text preserved on it tell of Enkidu’s encounter with the prostitute and of his arrival in the city of Uruk, and clarify the relationship between other sources for the same episode. The perceived difference between the Old and Standard Babylonian poems’ treatment of Enkidu’s seduction disappears. The extant versions can be reconciled in a sing…

  • Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology

    W G Lambert, Wg Lambert et al.BOOKAncient Mesopotamian Religion and…2016

    The late W.G. Lambert (1926-2011) was one of the foremost Assyriologists of the latter part of the twentieth century. His principle legacy is a large number of superb critical editions of Babylonian literary compositions. Many of the texts he edited were on religious and mythological subjects. He will always be remembered as the editor of the Babylonian Job ( Ludlul bel nemeqi , also known as the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer), the Babylonian Fl…

  • Primeval Flood Catastrophe

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2016

    The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions. By Y. S. Chen. Oxford Oriental Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 314, 16 plts. $175. The Ark before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. By Irving Finkel. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2014. Pp. x + 421, 16 plts. £19.99

  • On Babylonian Lavatories and Sewers

    Open AccessA R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEIraq2015

    This study begins by examining the archaeological and documentary evidence for lavatories (toilets) and foul-water drains in ancient Mesopotamian dwelling houses. It goes on to investigate the use, etymology and history of the Akkadian word asurrû : in the Old Babylonian period it served mainly as a term for a kind of foul-water drain or “sewer” but later shed that meaning.

  • The Gods Išum and Ḫendursanga

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2015References: 1

    The ancient Mesopotamian gods Ium and endursanga have been studied separately and together. 1 It is not the purpose here to repeat the evidence and ideas put forward in these studies, but to explore a role of these two gods that has repercussions for our knowledge of the urban environment in ancient Mesopotamia

  • Back to the Cedar Forest

    F N H Al-Rawi, Farouk Ν H Al-Rawi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cuneiform Studies2014Cited by: 4References: 2

  • The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two

    Open AccessA R George, Andrew George et al.ARTICLEIraq2010

    This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before. They are mostly tablets of the Neo-Assyrian period, from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, but the corpus also contains some Neo-Babylonian fragments from Nineveh, as well as a tablet from Sultantepe (ancient Huzirina) and two Late Babylonian tablets from southern Mesop…

  • Akkadian turru (ṭurru B) “corner angle”, and the walls of Babylon

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…2008

    This article (a) examines the Akkadian word turru, sometimes ṭurru, in architectural contexts and finds it to designate an angle at the intersection of two walls. In the light of this discovery the article goes on (b) to elucidate passages of Nebuchadnezzar II's inscriptions that describe his construction of the defences of Babylon on either side of the Ištar Gate, and (c) to consider other instances of turru, from which it emerges (d) that the m…

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library XIII Enūma Anu Ellil XX

    Open AccessF N H Al-Rawi, Farouk Ν H Al-Rawi et al.ARTICLEIraq2006

    The Sippar Library tablet IM 124485 is a new source for Tablet XX of Enūma Anu Ellil (EAE) , the great compilation of Babylonian celestial and meteorological omens. The twentieth tablet of the series, which deals principally with lunar eclipses on the fourteenth day of each month of the year, was edited by Francesca Rochberg in 1988 along with all the other tablets of lunar-eclipse omens in EAE (Rochberg-Halton 1988: Chapter 10). Rochberg was una…

  • The Royal libraries of Nineveh

    Open AccessGrant Frame, A R George et al.ARTICLEIraq2005

    The two tablets published here for the first time, BM 45642 and BM 28825, are edited together for good reason, for the historical background of both texts is very probably the same episode in King Ashurbanipal's drive to acquire scribal learning. Where BM 28825 concerns the reception of the Assyrian king's demand for tablets among the citizens of Babylon, BM 45642 deals with the reaction of scholars of nearby Borsippa to a similar royal message. …

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library XI. The Babylonian Almanac

    Khalid Ismael, Khalid Salim Isma'El et al.ARTICLEIraq2002

    The Babylonian Almanac is a text that gives abbreviated prescriptions for the days of the year. Since it was last edited, by René Labat in 1941 (“Un almanach babylonien”, RA 38, 13–40), new sources for the almanac have steadily accrued. Two more copies of the text have been identified among the tablets of the library discovered in the temple of Šamaš at Sippar by archaeologists of the University of Baghdad in 1986. Both are full almanacs, that is…

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library. VII. Three Wisdom Texts

    A R George, Andrew George et al.ARTICLEIraq1998

    The present article in the series begun in Iraq 52 and continued in Volumes 56–8 offers three tablets from the Sippar library which add to our knowledge of the genre of Babylonian literature known today as “wisdom”: a manuscript of Tablet I of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi (The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer), a copy of the great Šamaš Hymn, and a tablet inscribed with a small collection of proverbs.Since W. G. Lambert's edition of Ludlul in Babylonian Wisdo…

  • House Most High

    John F Robertson, A R George et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1998

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library VI. Atra-ḫasīs

    A R George, Andrew George et al.ARTICLEIraq1996

    The Babylonian myth known to the ancients as Enūma ilū awëlum, “When the Gods Were Man”, and to modern scholarship as the Epic of Atra-ḫasīs, tells the wondrous story of the creation of mankind, of the attempts of the king of the gods, Enlil, to reduce the overpopulation that resulted from its unchecked reproduction — by plague, drought, famine and, most disastrously, the Deluge — and of the measures then taken by the gods to keep mankind's futur…

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library V. An Incantation from Mīs pî

    F N H Al-Rawi, Farouk Ν H Al-Rawi et al.ARTICLEIraq1995

    The tablet IM 124645 was excavated in 1986 in niche 3 A of the library. It offers a version of an incantation from Tablet III of Mīs pî, the series of rituals that accompanied the restoration and re-animation of divine statues. In the incantation a purification priest requests the gods Ea, Šamaš and Asalluḫi to “determine the destiny” of the divine statue so that it may be provided with a mouth to eat and ears to hear. Our knowledge of this incan…

  • The Bricks of E-Sagil

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEIraq1995

    The intention of this article is to continue the process of comparing modern archaeological data relating to Babylon and its buildings with the ancient written sources. Previous work has produced results for the topography of the city, particularly the location of the city's gates, quarters and temples, and has achieved some success with two individual structures, namely the temple of Marduk under the mound Amran ibn Ali, and the eastern city wal…

  • Tablets from the Sippar Library. III. Two Royal Counterfeits

    F N H Al-Rawi, Farouk Ν H Al-Rawi et al.ARTICLEIraq1994

    This article continues the publication of tablets from the library of the temple of Šamaš at Sippar begun in volume 52 of this journal. Presented here are the library's copies of two texts which have in common the fact that they are not what they purport to be: Maništūšu's cruciform monument, and a literary letter of Samsu-iluna. Both texts are clearly fictitious compositions which postdate their supposed royal authors by a long time. Their purpo…

  • Tablets from the Sippar library III. Two Royal Counterfeits

    Open AccessF N H Al-Rawi, Farouk Ν H Al-Rawi et al.ARTICLEIraq1994

    This article continues the publication of tablets from the library of the temple of Šamaš at Sippar begun in volume 52 of this journal. Presented here are the library's copies of two texts which have in common the fact that they are not what they purport to be: Maništūšu's cruciform monument, and a literary letter of Samsu-iluna. Both texts are clearly fictitious compositions which postdate their supposed royal authors by a long time. Their purpo…

  • Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite, and Notes on Other Comic Tales

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEIraq1993

    A new look at the three best-known examples of Babylonian humour prompts a revised edition of one text, the Tale of Ninurta-pāqidāt's Dog Bite, and gives an opportunity to present significant new collations of the other two, At the Cleaners, and the Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur.This text, inscribed on a Neo-Babylonian tablet excavated in a private house at Uruk, is the most recently discovered of the comic tales that are the subject of this pap…

  • Schalf, Kindchen, Schlaf! Mesopotamische Baby-Beschwörungen und -Rituale . Walter Farber

    A R GeorgeARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1993

  • Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) . A. Kirk Grayson

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1993

  • Spätbabylonische Texte aus Uruk, Pt. 3 . Egbert von Weiher

    A R GeorgeARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1993

  • Cuneiform Archives and Libraries

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1993

  • Babylon revisited

    Open AccessA R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEAntiquity1993References: 3

    The recent publication of cuneiform texts relating to Babylon allows a reassessment of the city's topography, and sheds light on the remains discovered by Robert Koldewey and more recent excavators. A comparison of the archaeological and documentary evidence relating to selected structures of the city provides examples of the ways in which archaeology and philology can successfully complement each other

  • Inscriptions from Tell al-Hawa 1987-88

    A R George, Andrew GeorgeARTICLEIraq1990

    In 1987 and 1988 the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq conducted two further seasons of excavations at Tell al-Hawa in the north Jezirah. The inscribed objects recovered during these excavations were an Old Babylonian tablet, an inscribed Neo-Assyrian potsherd, fragments of inscribed cones of Shalmaneser III, and a piece of stamped brick. They are published here as texts nos. 1–4.No. 1. IM 113547 (HW 236). Fig. 1No. 1 is the very damaged …