S Langdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5403322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Langdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Langdon |
| SIGNATURE | LANGDON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0572-5137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1903 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The South Dakota Reburial Program and the Discovery of a Possible Prehistoric Dwarf
For the past decade, the South Dakota Archaeological Research Center, through the initiative of Robert Alex, has maintained a working relationship with the University of Tennessee to analyze human skeletal remains. This paper outlines the history of contract skeletal analysis and the reburial of archaeological remains in South Dakota. Because skeletons are now analyzed before reburial, much new information has been gained One such case is a possi…
Sumerian Philological Notes
Landsberger, ZA. , 42,147 and 155, deduced the reading zamin for i.e. zag-mim > zamin , loan-word sammû , from the gloss [ za]-me-in on giš ar-ri “instrument of praise” = sammû . But the reading zagšal > zašal is proved by the dialectic ša-za-al in Genouillac, Textes Cunéiformes , xvi, pl. 144, AO. , 7687, 28; a ùr-a al-a ša-za-al ga-na-ab-du “How long, O city, to the tambourine and lyre? I will say”. Cf. á-lá zag-sal-zu = ina alê ta[nitta-ka] , …
Note on the Cuneiform Tablet found at Samaria
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A Business Record of the Dungi Period
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Die Völker des Antiken Orients. Geschichte der Führerenden Völker, Vol. III. Edited by Finke Junker, and Schnürer. Die Ägypter by Herman Junker, Die Babylonier, Assyrer, Perser und Phöniker by Louis D…
A Curious Drehem Tablet
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To Professor Fritz Hommel on his Eightieth Birthday
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Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933
My report on the twelfth season of the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition at Kish is based upon the weekly reports of the Field Director, M. L. Ch. Watelin, supplemented by further study of the objects after their arrival in Oxford. I have been able to make use of Dr. Milne and Professor Margoliouth's report on the coins and of Mr. Harden's study of the pottery. The drawings and letterpress for the pottery are entirely Mr. Harden's work. He had meagr…
Babylonian and Hebrew Demonology with reference to the supposed borrowing of Persian Dualism in Judaism and Christianity
Dualism is a term introduced into modern theology by the Englishman, Thomas Hyde, in 1700, and was first used to describe sthe fundamental principle of Persian Zoroastrism, namely the independent existence of good and evil. Ormazd the good god and Ahriman the evil god in the theology of the Persians represent an absolute dualism. For them Ahriman, corresponding to Satan of Judaism and Christianity, is entirely independent of the creator god. Good…
Notes on Sumerian Etymology and Syntax
Von Soden, Die Akkadischen Synonymenlisten , 1, iii, 7, has lù gal-nu-giš-šar = šá-an-da-na-ku , after lù nu-giššar = nu-ka-ri-bu “gardener”. VAT. 9558 Rev. i, 23 has (ša-an-dan) = šá-an-da-na-ku , after nu-giš-šar = nukaribu . Meissner, Beiträge , i, 85, n. 77 is to be corrected. This is not šandabakku “librarian”. šá-an-da-na-ak kirî ṣi-ḫa-ti “The gardener of the garden of desires”, Ebeling, KAR. 158, p. 274, 35. So correct JRAS. 1921, 188, 35;…
Note on the Aramaic Treaty of Bar-ga'ya and Mati‘el
Father Ronzevalle has now published the text of the important stela from Sudschîn, 14 miles south-east of Aleppo, Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph , xv, 235–260 (1931). On face Aa Bar-ga'yā, king of K-T-K, and Mati‘el, king of Arpad, engage in a treaty before certain gods, most of whom are Babylonian with the exception of the Aramaic Sun-god and ('Elyōn) “the most high”, a title of the same Aramaic deity, the 'Elioun of Sanchounyathōn. In li…
Archibald Henry Sayce as Assyriologist
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Langdon's Semitic Mythology
La Pâleur d'Enkidu. By Georges Dossin. Louvain: Imprimerie Orientaliste. pp. 1–30.
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamish
Last season M. Watelin discovered a number of Sumerian tablets at Hursagkalamma in the spur of the great mound north of the temple of Ninlil. These were found in trench C 15, 1 metre below the surface, 3 metres above plain level, and in the Hammurabi stratum. Several fragments have been joined at Oxford, so that the lower half of a large two-column tablet has been completed. The tablet is 5 inches wide (125 mm.) and 5 inches long, originally 10 i…
An Unplaced Fragment of the Utukke Limnuti Series
The unpublished text K. 2505 has been partially utilized by the late Professor Zimmern in a few entries communicated by him to Professor Meissner for the Nachträge to the latter's Seltene Assyrische Ideogramme . It was obvious from the few extracts available in this important book that K. 2505 contains much valuable and new material, and I am grateful to the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum, Mr. Sidney Smith, for …
Philological Note: Maḫḫû, not Magus
The title maḫḫû has been entered in the lexicons as “prophet”, and the Persian-Greek μγος has been derived from it, a derivation now generally abandoned. In the first place maḫḫû = galu-gub-ba, is placed after kalû , psalmist, galamaḫḫu , chief psalmist, munambû = i-lu-di, wailer, lallaru , wailer, CT. 19, 41, K. 4328 A 14–20 = Meissner, Suppl . 21, Rm. 338 Rev. ii, 1–5 = VAT. 10216, iv, 1–5, Meissner, Beiträge 83, Oriental Institute of the Unive…
An Assyrian Royal Inscription from a Series of Poems
K. 4874 is the right half of a square tablet, originally about 5 inches wide and 41⁄2 inches long. Translation by Sayce, but the text has not been published. Owing to its fragmentary condition, the document has value almost exclusively for Sumerian and Semitic philology. It must belong to a series, for part of the Sumerian catch-line is preserved. The only similar tablet, known to me, is the Assyrian copy of a Babylonian bilingual account of the …
Another Indus Valley Seal
The button-shaped seal communicated in this paper was kindly shown to me by Professor A. B. Cook, of Cambridge, who purchased it from a London dealer. The object was seen by the Cambridge professor among a lot of “Assyrian cone seals, etc.”, but the dealer had no recollection of its provenance. Babylonian press seals of the small coneshaped variety are constantly appearing in the hands of dealers in antiquities, and seals of the Indus Valley type…
Excavations at Kish
New Texts from Jemdet Nasr
The following tablets were excaved by M. L. Ch. Watelin in the course of two weeks' intensive work at Kish in the spring of 1927. See Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts , vol. vii, for abbreviations
A New Factor in the Problem of Sumerian Origins
This year M. L. Ch. Watelin, director of excavations for the Oxford Field Museum Expedition at Kish, has found another seal of the early Indus Valley civilization at plain level, 9 metres below the surface of the soil. According to our stratifications at this site, the object should be pre-Sargonic, but it was found with a stone pommel bearing an inscription clearly not earlier than Sargon of Agade. Both objects, therefore, may have fallen from a…
A Sumerian Hymn to Ishtar (Innini) and the Deified Ishme-Dagan
Ishme-Dagan, fourth king of the Isin dynasty, reigned twenty years (2237–18), but concerning the history of his reign little is known. He appears in all known references to him as “the god Ishme-Dagan”, in accordance with the prevalent custom of emperor-worship in the periods of the third dynasty of Ur and the succeeding dynasties of Isin and Ellasar. Although all the fifteen kings of Isin and the fourteen kings of Ellasar have Semitic names, and…
New Fragments of the Commentaries on the Ritual of the Death and Resurrection of Bel
The texts which narrated the episodes of the death, burial in a tomb, the sojourn in Hades, and the resurrection of Marduk, have not been recovered. The contents of this remarkable myth, which transferred the Tammuz legends to Bel-Marduk, must be reconstructed from the rituals and commentaries. On it the Babylonians based a ritual or mystery play in which the entire myth was represented. The rubrics which contained full directions of the details …
Excavations at Kish, 1928–9
LAST winter was the seventh consecutive season of the Herbert Weld (for Oxford) and Field Museum Expedition at Kish, when Mr. Watelin, in charge of the excavations, reached virgin soil 28 feet below plain level, and 61 feet below mound level. At the end of the sixth season (1927–8), Watelin, Mr. Henry Field, and Mr. Eric Schroeder found the series of vaulted brick tombs and four-wheeled chariots, described in Art and Archœology , 1928, November, …
Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933
My report on the twelfth season of the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition at Kish is based upon the weekly reports of the Field Director, M. L. Ch. Watelin, supplemented by further study of the objects after their arrival in Oxford. I have been able to make use of Dr. Milne and Professor Margoliouth's report on the coins and of Mr. Harden's study of the pottery. The drawings and letterpress for the pottery are entirely Mr. Harden's work. He had meagr…
The South Dakota Reburial Program and the Discovery of a Possible Prehistoric Dwarf
For the past decade, the South Dakota Archaeological Research Center, through the initiative of Robert Alex, has maintained a working relationship with the University of Tennessee to analyze human skeletal remains. This paper outlines the history of contract skeletal analysis and the reburial of archaeological remains in South Dakota. Because skeletons are now analyzed before reburial, much new information has been gained One such case is a possi…
Evidence for an Advance on Egypt by Sennacherib in the Campaign of 701-700 B. C
IN 701 B. C. Sennacherib was called to the West by a serious revolution which had broken out there. A coalition had been formed of all the important cities and states of Western Asia instigated by Shabitoku, second king of the Ethiopian dynasty which was rapidly raising Egypt to a first class power. Shabitoku reigned 703-693 B. C. Within two years after his accession to the throne he had succeeded in forming a coalition against Sennacherib. There…
The Supposed Variant of AH. 82, 7-14, 1042. Where Is It? Its Probable Contents
An Early Babylonian Tablet of Warnings for the King
THIS tablet, numbered D.T. 1, was published first in IV Raw. 48, republished in the second edition by Mr. Pinches, and again in CT. 15, pl. 50, by Mr. L. W. King. It has been edited by Alfred Boissier, Recherches sur quelques contrats Babyloniens, pp. 7-20, and previously translated by Prof. Sayce in Recorcls of the Past, vii. 119. By means of the new editions we are now able to re-edit the tablet and to get from it several new philological forms…
Recent Assyro-Babylonian Literature
Critical Notes upon the Epic of Paradise
XI. The Babylonian Conception of the Logos
In Greek philosophy the word λόγος, which by derivation and usage meant speech, discourse, spoken word, assumed at an early period in the history of Greek thought the meaning reason, thought, mind. It is so employed, apparently, first by Heraclitus of the Ionian school at Ephesus. There seems to be in the region of purely Greek thought and religion no conception of λόγος or uttered word of the gods which could have suggested its identification wi…
XVI. Gesture in Sumerian and Babylonian Prayer
Religious worship is abundantly illustrated in many of its most important aspects by scenes engraved on Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian seal cylinders. Chronologically the seals of this region illustrate nearly every period of the long history of these peoples and the changing rituals and beliefs of their religion. A very large proportion of the seals represent the owner of the seal approaching a deity in the attitude of prayer. This is especi…
Revue d'Assyriologie, Vol. XIV
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IV. Four Assyriological Notes
1. The Identification of the Name D -Tagtug Sumero-Babylonian myths and legends were rich in tales of prehistoric rulers, heroes who became the subjects of epics, poems, and cults. Consecutive and intensive study of Cuneiform inscriptions has revealed a vast structure of ancient Sumerian hero-worship upon which was erected their extensive theological and ethical literature. Of the kings of the first legendary dynasty at Kish; Etana, a one-time sh…
V.— Sumerian Origins and Racial Characteristics
In 1901 Léon Heuzey wrote in his Catalogue des Antiquites chaldeennes that we possessed at that time only one complete statuette of early Sumerian art. He referred to the remarkable marble figurine of a priest or priest-king excavated at Lagash and published on plate 6 bis oi Découvertes en Chaldée . Although this object, of unusual height for a statuette in the early period (it is about 18 inches high), came from the hand of the sculptor with th…
I Menes and Narâm-Sin
The Treaty of Alliance between Ḫattušili, King of the Hittites, and the Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt
Menes and Naram-Sin
The Treaty of Alliance between Hattusili, King of the Hittites, and the Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt
THE publication in Germany, during the war, of the Hittite archives discovered at Boghazkoi by Hugo Winckler makes it at last possible to compare in detail the hieroglyphic and cuneiform versions of the famous treaty concluded by the Hittite king HIjattusili with Ramesses II of Egypt.Archaeology has no more romantic coincidence to show than the recovery in the heart of Asia Minior, a thousand miles away across the Mediterranean, of those two clay…
Assyrian Lexicographical Notes
The Babylonians divided the night into three watches, to which they gave the names maṣṣartu bararîtu , evening watch, maṣṣartu ḳablîtu , midnight watch, maṣṣarti šat urri , morning watch. Bararîtu and kablîtu are adjectives in this construction. The full forms occur rarely as in Ebeling, Religiöse Keilschrifttexte aus Assur , No. 58, Rev. 7 ; No. 91, Rev. 21–2. Ordinarily maṣṣartu is omiṭted in the Semitic texts and bararîtu, ḳablîtu are treated …
The Sumerian Law Code compared with the Code of Hammurabi
The great Semitic digest of laws made by Hammurabi and inscribed at his orders on the magnificent diorite stele of Susa was probably promulgated soon after the 34th year of the reign of that famous king, or about 2088. His reign extended to 2081. The period of its composition and promulgation is therefore limited to the brief space of eight years at the end of his reign. This date is at any rate certain for the great stele deciphered by Père Sche…
The Early Chronology of Sumer and Egypt and the Similarities in Their Culture
The Early Chronology of Sumer and Egypt and the Similarities in their Culture
Assyrian Lexicographical Notes
This Semitic root occurs regularly in Hebrew, Phœnician, and Aramaic in the form r-š-p , although Syriac agrees with Assyrian in having the metathesis š-r-b . The regular Semitic form of this root exists in Assyrian in the word raššubatu , flame, conflagration, brilliancy, terror, and is the cognate of Hebrew réšeph . The root rašābu , blaze, has been entered in the lexicons with the meaning “be powerful, terrible”, and the error still persists, …
Babylonian and Hebrew Musical Terms
In the introduction to my Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms was derived, from early rubrics attached to Sumerian songs, the principle that the Sumerians classified their psalms and liturgical services chiefly by the names of the instruments employed in accompaniments. The Babylonians and the Assyrians adopted the Sumerian chants for their own sacred music, and throughout the history of Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian temple music each psalm and l…
The Location of Isin
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The Chaldean Kings before the Flood
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Philological Note
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The Babylonian and Persian Sacaea
According to Strabo, xi, 8, 4, the Sakai, a Sythian tribe, built a temple to the Persian deities Anaitis, Omanus, and Onadatus, and celebrated yearly the festival τ⋯ Σάκαια, which the people who inhabited Zêla celebrated even in his own day. The passage affords evidence for the celebration of a festival at Zêla in Pontus as late as the beginning of our era. For some reason Zêla, far removed from the old home of these Persian deities, had long bee…
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