W G Lambert
Biographic Data
| ID | 700494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W G Lambert |
| GIVEN NAMES | W G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lambert |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBERT W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An = Anum and Related Lists: God Lists of Ancient Mesopotamia, Volume I
This volume is the first in a planned edition of the complete corpus of ancient Mesopotamian god lists. It contains the lists »An = Anum« (including its forerunners) and »An = Anu ša amēli« along with several similar, more-or-less fragmentary lists. The god list An = Anum was, with its ca. 2000 entries, the most comprehensive list of its kind. It is systematically organized and contains explanations both of individual deities and of certain group…
Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology: Selected Essays
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…
Ištar of Nineveh
Ištar of Nineveh at first glance presents a dilemma for the researcher. While she was a most important goddess, patron of a major town in north Mesopotamia, very little is known about her. As to her importance, in Hurrian religion Teššub and Ša'uška of Nineveh were heads of the pantheon. Here she is given her Hurrian name, Ša'uška. Thus the Mitanni king Tušratta in the Amarna letter no. 23, to Amenophis III, writes that Ša'uška of Nineveh, lady o…
A New Exemplar of Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi Tablet I from Birmingham
Astral Magic in Babylonia
Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod
Mythen und Epen II: Band III, Lieferung 4
When Did Jehu Pay Tribute
Enuma Elish
A Babylonian narrative myth of about 1100 poetic lines, often misleadingly called “The (Babylonian) Epic of Creation.” Its purpose was to explain and justify the rise of the god Marduk to headship of the pantheon, and creation is incidental to that. H. Gunkel and others held that it was the source o
Metal-Working and its Patron Deities in the Early Levant
The Reference of ḫamṭu and marû in Lexical Lists
The Late Babylonian Kislīmu Ritual for Esagil
The Name of Nergal Again
The Names of Umma
A Late Babylonian Copy of an Expository Text
Notes on a Work of the Most Ancient Semitic Literature
Michael L. Barré. The God-List in the Treaty between Hannibal and Philip V of Macedonia: A Study in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Tradition
Proportional Guidelines in Ancient near Eastern Art
Babylonian Astrological Omens and Their Stars
Narām-Sîn of Ešnunna or Akkad
Lugal ud me-lám-bi nir-gál: Le récit épique et didactique des travaux de ninurta, du déluge et de la nouvelle création. Edited and translated by J. Van Duk. 2 vols.: pp. x, 147; pp. vi, 183, 88 plates…
Lugal ud me-lám-bi nir-gál: le récit épique et didactique des travaux de ninurta, du déluge et de la nouvelle création. Edited and translated by J. Van Duk. 2 vols.: pp. x, 147; pp. vi, 183, 88 plates. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1983. Guilders 152. - Volume 117 Issue 1
Trees, snakes and gods in ancient Syria and Anatolia
For too long study of ancient Near Eastern representational art and study of possibly related texts have been entirely separate disciplines, the one a branch of archaeology, the other of philology. This accounts for the very scanty results obtained and their frequently questionable character. In the case of Classical Greece and Rome art historians ordinarily command Greek and Latin so as to use written sources at first hand, but Near Eastern arch…
Briggs W. Buchanan and Ulla Kasten. Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection
Studies in Marduk
For the hisory of religions the rise of Marduk, city god of Babylon, is one of the most striking phenomena known from ancient Mesopotamia. From being an utterly insignificant god in third-millennium Sumer, he had risen to be head of the Babylonian pantheon by the first millennium. The Münster thesis of Walter Sommerfeld, written under W. von Soden, is the first book-length treatment of this topic. As the subtitle indicates, it is largely restrict…
The God Aššur
Considerable mystery surrounds the state god of Assyria, Aššur. Though this country was a little removed from the centres of Sumero-Babylonian culture and had distinctive traits of its own, compared with Syria and Elam it was definitely within the cultural milieu of Mesopotamia. This applies to religion also, where Adad and Ištar, for example, as worshipped in Assyria, are clearly the counterparts of the Adad and Ištar known from southern Mesopot…
A Catalogue of Texts and Authors
Ancestors, Authors, and Canonicity
Booty from Egypt
Akkadian Prophecies
Studies in Marduk
For the hisory of religions the rise of Marduk, city god of Babylon, is one of the most striking phenomena known from ancient Mesopotamia. From being an utterly insignificant god in third-millennium Sumer, he had risen to be head of the Babylonian pantheon by the first millennium. The Münster thesis of Walter Sommerfeld, written under W. von Soden, is the first book-length treatment of this topic. As the subtitle indicates, it is largely restrict…
Enmeduranki and Related Matters
The Late Babylonian Kislīmu Ritual for Esagil
Trees, snakes and gods in ancient Syria and Anatolia
For too long study of ancient Near Eastern representational art and study of possibly related texts have been entirely separate disciplines, the one a branch of archaeology, the other of philology. This accounts for the very scanty results obtained and their frequently questionable character. In the case of Classical Greece and Rome art historians ordinarily command Greek and Latin so as to use written sources at first hand, but Near Eastern arch…
Notes on a Work of the Most Ancient Semitic Literature
Michael L. Barré. The God-List in the Treaty between Hannibal and Philip V of Macedonia: A Study in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Tradition
Proportional Guidelines in Ancient near Eastern Art
The Sultantepe Tablets ( Continued ) III. The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
The discovery of new tablets of Ludlul bêl nêmeqi , which was announced in Anatolian Studies , II, p. 28, comes as a very welcome supplement to the extant Akkadian Wisdom literature, a field which has been singularly barren in new finds for several decades now, as a recent writer has commented. There are parts of two tablets: the lower portion of a well-preserved copy of tablet I, and a copy of tablet II made up from several fragments, the lower …
Notes and Communications: Two Akkadian Cognates
Three Fragments: Era Myth; ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu; And a Text Related to the Epic of Creation
Ancestors, Authors, and Canonicity (JCS XI, 1-14): Additions and Corrections
Ancestors, Authors, and Canonicity
A Vizier of Ḫattuša? A Further Comment
The Domesticated Camel in the Second Millennium: Evidence from Alalakh and Ugarit
The Sultantepe Tablets ( continued )VIII. Shalmaneser In Ararat
Among the Sultantepe tablets one attracts attention by its unexpectedness. It is, to quote O. R. Gurney's description, an account of the campaign of Shalmaneser III against Urartu [the Biblical Ararat], preceded by a speech in which reference is made to previous campaigns against Bit-Adini, Til-Barsip and the Kings of the Hittites. The Sultantepe Tablets , I, p. 4, on No. 43. Accounts of the campaigns undertaken by Assyrian kings did not ordinari…
The Fifth Tablet of the Era Epic
The Era Epic is the expression of frustrated patriotism. Babylonia had been reduced to ruins and impotence by a people called the Sutû, and the author is trying to explain the reason and to give promises of a glorious future. The reason given is that the god Era, a god of pestilence, had been angry. No grounds, ultimately, for this anger are suggested: it was the god's nature. His commander-in-chief, the god Išum, finally persuaded him to relent.…
A Catalogue of Texts and Authors
The Great Battle of the Mesopotamian Religious Year. The Conflict in the Akītu House (A Summary)
Celibacy in the World's Oldest Proverbs
Armas Salonen: Die Möbel des alten Mesopotamien nach sumerisch-akkadischen Quellen: eine lexikalische und kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 127.)…
Armas Salonen: Die Möbel des alten Mesopotamien nach sumerisch-akkadischen Quellen: eine lexikalische und kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 127.) 328pp., 65 plates. Helsinki: [Academia Scientiarum Fennica], 1963. Fmk. 27. - Volume 27 Issue 3
Akkadian Prophecies
Nebuchadnezzar King of Justice
The latest volume of cuneiform texts published by the British Museum contains one piece of exceptional interest as nothing exactly like it has been discovered before. It is part of a tablet with three columns of writing on each side. The upper part of the tablet is missing, and since the Babylonians and Assyrians turned their tablets from top to bottom, and not from side to side, this means that the beginnings of the first three, and the ends of …
Ancient near Eastern Seals in Birmingham Collections
The purpose of this article is to make available to specialists and others interested the resources of Birmingham in the matter of ancient Near Eastern Seals. As would be expected, the lion's share comes from the City Museum, and I am indebted to Nicholas Thomas, Keeper of the Department of Archaeology, for permission to study and publish this material. His assistant, John Ruffle, has helped me by gathering the material together and in every othe…
Enmeduranki and Related Matters
Another Look at Hammurabi's Ancestors
Literary Style in First Millennium Mesopotamia
lambert, W, (1968), literary style in first millennium mesopotamia, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 88, No. 1: pp. 123- 132
A Middle Assyrian Medical Text
The tablet presented here in honour of C. J. Gadd is the property of Signor Giancarlo Ligabue of Venice. The writer wishes to thank this gentleman for permission to publish it, and also to express his gratitude to Signora Ligabue-Mazza for making necessary arrangements so that the original could be studied at leisure. Thanks are also due to Dr. Franz Köcher, who read through the first draft of the purely medical portion of the Middle Assyrian tab…
The Reading of the God Name dKA.Di
The Sultantepe Tablets: IX. The Birdcall Text
This text is one of a number of first millennium compilations that reflect a certain philosophical and religious outlook of those times. The compilers sought to find evidence of current theology in the physical universe, which, viewed dispassionately, had only little relevant to show. Whereas “primitive” man had observed the forces of nature and had worshipped them with anthropomorphic attributes, more sophisticated man imagined signs of divine o…
Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum. Second Supplement
An Inscribed Bronze Vessel from Luristān
Atra-ḫasīs; The Babylonian Story of the Flood
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