O R Gurney
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 583620 |
|---|---|
| NOME | O R Gurney |
| PRENOMES | O R |
| SOBRENOME | Gurney |
| ASSINATURA | GURNEY O R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northeast Catholic College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1937 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mesopotamian Tonal Systems
The Annals of Hattusilis III
The Hittite kings were the first to record the events of their reigns in annalistic form, beginning, it seems, with the first king of the Empire, Tudhaliyas I/II. His successors continued the practice, and annals are preserved for Arnuwandas I, Suppiluliumas I (composed by his son), and above all for Mursilis II. There is no reason to think that the following kings were any less proud of their achievements, but Muwatallis II's archives have not y…
The Hittite Names of Kerkenes Dağ and Kuşaklı Höyük
A major Hittite city-mound in the vicinity of the Kerkenes Dağ having been identified by Dr. Summers (see previous article), the question naturally arises whether their ancient Hittite names can be determined. Unfortunately this central area of the Hittite kingdom was completely distorted in The Geography of the Hittite Empire (1959) by the misplacing of Pala-Tumanna and Nerik and the places, such as Mt. Ḫaḫarwa, associated with them. Allusions t…
Babylonian Music Again
The Ladder-men at Alaca Höyük
In the preceding article Professor Ahmet Ünal has announced his discovery of the long-sought textual evidence for the sword-swallower depicted on one of the relief blocks at Alaca Höyük. This figure was already recognized as a kind of “juggler” (bateleur) by Perrot and Chipiez in their prestigious first publication of these reliefs in 1887 and most writers have followed them, but John Garstang and others mistook the sword for a trumpet. It is goo…
The Treaty with Ulmi-Tešub
The treaty of a Hittite king, whose name is lost, with Ulmi-Tešub, king of Tarhuntassa ( KBo . IV 10 + KUB XL 69 + 1548/u, CTH 106) is a complex and problematic document. Published as a hand-copy by Forrer in 1920, no modern edition of the text has yet appeared in print. It contains an unusually full description of the boundaries of Ulmi-Tešub's vassal kingdom, and in order to provide a sound basis for the reconstruction of Hittite political geog…
The Middle Babylonian Legal and Economic Texts from Ur
Sound Holes and Geometrical Figures. Clues to the Terminology of Ancient Mesopotamian Harps
On the sides of the vertical harps on the Assyrian Palace reliefs in the British Museum one observes a characteristic geometrical figure inscribed in a consistent manner. The figure resembles a rectangle the sides of which are concave (Plate Xa). The oldest (653 B.C.) vertical harps shown on these reliefs ' are played by seven members of King Teumman's Elamite orchestra (S. W. Palace at Nineveh, BM 124802, detail here, Plate Xb). Most of these ha…
The Hittite Title tuhkanti
The so-called Tawagalawas Letter – the longest and most controversial document in the Ahhiyawa dossier – opens with the well-known incident in which (as hitherto understood) Tawagalawas sends a message to the Hittite king demanding recognition as a vassal and requesting the dispatch of the tuhkanti - to conduct him into the royal presence. The king dispatches the TARTĒNU , one of his sons, but Tawagalawas refuses to go with him and demands immedi…
A Gate Socket of Ur-nammu
Une crapaudine d'une porte d'Ur-Nammu. En diorite ou basalte, 40 34 13 cm, inscrite au nom d'Ur-Nammu. Collection privee anglaise. Translitteralisation, production. Dedicace par Ur-Nammu, d'Ur, roi de Sumer et d'Akkad d'un temple a Enki deluge du ciel et de la terre.
Ancient near Eastern Cylinder Seals Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1963-1973
At his death in December 1976 Briggs W. Buchanan had been working on the collection of ancient Near Eastern seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for the best part of thirty years. Illness had prevented any visits after the summer of 1974. The first fruits of his labours appeared in 1966 as a Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, I. Cylinder Seals. By early in the 1970's he had prepared a manuscript of the long-planned…
The Fifth Tablet of "The Topography of Babylon"
The series “Topography of Babylon”, known from its first line as DIN.TIRki = Bābilu, was first put together from several fragments by Eckhard Unger in a chapter contributed to F. Wetzel, Die Stadtmauern von Babylon (WVDOG 48, 1930), then repeated with some minor changes (not always for the better) in his book Babylon, Die heilige Stadt (1931). In a long review of the latter book in ZA NF 7 (1933) B. Landsberger and F. H. Weissbach made a number o…
Ancient near Eastern Seals at Charterhouse
The small collection of ancient Near Eastern seals in the school museum at Charterhouse was called to our attention by the kindness of Mr. Ian Blake. It was assembled in the nineteenth century through two gifts, that of D. G. Prinsep in 1876 (eight cylinders) and that of Leonard Marshall in 1896 (sixteen cylinders and five Sassanian stamp seals). No information has survived about the exact source of these seals, though, as will be seen, they migh…
The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur and Its Folktale Parallels
Three years after taking office as Director of our Institute Seton Lloyd was collaborating with the late Nuri Gokce, Director of the Archaeological Museum at Ankara, in the excavation of sites in the plain of Harran. One week's work at Sultantepe–now generally accepted as the site of an Assyrian city named Huzirina–proved memorable for the discovery of a small library of cuneiform tablets and especially of one particular tablet which introduced t…
Thirty Seasons at Ugarit (A Review)
Ras Shamra (Ugarit) has been one of the outstanding archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Its distinguished excavator, Cl. F. A. Schaerffer, in 1968 completed his thirtieth season at the site, and to mark the occasion his friends and colleagues were invited to contribute to a volume in his honour. The contributions proved so numerous that two volumes were necessary to contain them. One, which has not yet appeared, will be devoted t…
A List of Copper Objects
The object here published, no. 1931.128 in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, is a seven-sided prism measuring 17 cm. in height and 53 mm. in diameter. It was excavated at Tell Ingharra, Kisn, and Dr. P. R. S. Moorey has kindly provided me with the following note on its provenance:“ Its field reference is C 10 5(5), which means that it was found in area ‘C’, trench number 10, at five metres from the surface of the mound at a place where the …
An Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp
In recent years the discovery of two Late Babylonian tablets listing the names of the nine strings of the harp, and of musical intervals, and the interpretation of these tablets in a series of articles by Mme. Duchesne-Guillemin and Mrs. Draffkorn Kilmer, have brought the subject of Babylonian music into the forefront of discussion. My own responsibility for the publication of one of the tablets and my interest in the subject led me to consult a …
Anatolia c. 1750-1600 B.C. Vol. II
The Cambridge Ancient History
The Sultantepe Tablets I. Addendum II. Additional Corrigenda
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VBoT. Nos. 95 and 97
Anatolia c. 4000-2300 B. C
The Geography of the Hittite Empire
A Tablet of Incantations against Slander
Among the tablets excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur there is a text containing incantations and rituals against slander and witchcraft. A hand copy of this tablet has been prepared by the present writer for inclusion in a forthcoming volume of texts from Ur; its publication may, however, be anticipated by the following edition, which is offered as a tribute of respect and esteem to the eminent excavator.Incantations against witchcraft have b…
Sumerian and Akkadian Administrative Texts. By G. G. Hackman. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University, Vol. VIII, 1958.
The Cambridge Ancient History
Two Fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh from Sultantepe
The Annals of Hattusilis III
The Hittite kings were the first to record the events of their reigns in annalistic form, beginning, it seems, with the first king of the Empire, Tudhaliyas I/II. His successors continued the practice, and annals are preserved for Arnuwandas I, Suppiluliumas I (composed by his son), and above all for Mursilis II. There is no reason to think that the following kings were any less proud of their achievements, but Muwatallis II's archives have not y…
The Hittite Names of Kerkenes Dağ and Kuşaklı Höyük
A major Hittite city-mound in the vicinity of the Kerkenes Dağ having been identified by Dr. Summers (see previous article), the question naturally arises whether their ancient Hittite names can be determined. Unfortunately this central area of the Hittite kingdom was completely distorted in The Geography of the Hittite Empire (1959) by the misplacing of Pala-Tumanna and Nerik and the places, such as Mt. Ḫaḫarwa, associated with them. Allusions t…
The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur and Its Folktale Parallels
Three years after taking office as Director of our Institute Seton Lloyd was collaborating with the late Nuri Gokce, Director of the Archaeological Museum at Ankara, in the excavation of sites in the plain of Harran. One week's work at Sultantepe–now generally accepted as the site of an Assyrian city named Huzirina–proved memorable for the discovery of a small library of cuneiform tablets and especially of one particular tablet which introduced t…
The Geography of the Hittite Empire
The Sultantepe Tablets
With this number of Anatolian Studies we begin the publication of the Sultantepe tablets, as foreshadowed in Volume II, p. 35. The general nature of the hoard of tablets has already been described in the previous article. We present here three texts which are of some historical importance: the two eponym lists, and the tablet from “ M.2 ” (nos. 150, 18 + 21, and 331, of the 1952 season). All three provide some additional information about the ser…
The Sultantepe Tablets
The unbaked clay tablets found by Mr. Seton Lloyd and Bay Nuri Gökçe at Sultantepe were transported to the Archaeological Museum at Ankara in June, 1951. By a happy coincidence I arrived in Ankara shortly afterwards and was able to spend a period of about five weeks in examining the collection. At the beginning of my stay in Ankara the tablets were drying out well, and it was possible to brush off the accumulations of earth from many of them with…
Temple Records from Umma
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Hittite Paras = Horse
Note on Hittite Philology
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Hittite Prayers of Mursili II
Texts from Dur-Kurigalzu
The Iraq Government excavations at ‘Aqar Qūf (Dur-Kurigalzu) resulted in the recovery of over one hundred inscribed clay tablets of the Kassite (Middle Babylonian) period, which are now in the Iraq Museum. Through the generosity of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and the courtesy of the Direct or-General of Antiquities I was able to study the whole of this material in Baghdad during the early months of 1948. Fifteen of these interesting…
The Sultantepe Tablets
The unbaked clay tablets found by Mr. Seton Lloyd and Bay Nuri Gökçe at Sultantepe were transported to the Archaeological Museum at Ankara in June, 1951. By a happy coincidence I arrived in Ankara shortly afterwards and was able to spend a period of about five weeks in examining the collection. At the beginning of my stay in Ankara the tablets were drying out well, and it was possible to brush off the accumulations of earth from many of them with…
The Hittites
The Sultantepe Tablets
With this number of Anatolian Studies we begin the publication of the Sultantepe tablets, as foreshadowed in Volume II, p. 35. The general nature of the hoard of tablets has already been described in the previous article. We present here three texts which are of some historical importance: the two eponym lists, and the tablet from “ M.2 ” (nos. 150, 18 + 21, and 331, of the 1952 season). All three provide some additional information about the ser…
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 …
Two Fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh from Sultantepe
The Sultantepe Tablets ( Continued ) IV. The Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin
The peculiar document here studied is an example of what has been called the “ narû literature”. A narû was an engraved stele, on which a king would record the events of his reign; the characteristic features of such an inscription are a formal self-introduction of the writer by his name and titles, a narrative in the first person, and an epilogue usually consisting of curses upon any person who might in the future deface the monument and blessin…
The Sultantepe Tablets ( Continued ). V. The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur
Hitherto these articles have been concerned with texts which were at least partially known to Assyriologists from other sources. The composition now presented is not only new but unique in character, and it gives me great pleasure that the translation of this, in some ways the showpiece of the Sultantepe collection, should appear in a volume which is planned as a tribute of admiration and gratitude to the founder and President of the Institute. I…
The Sultantepe Tablets ( continued ) VI. A Letter of Gilgamesh
The text here chosen for translation can hardly be compared as literature with that presented in the preceding volume of this journal; it is, however, in some ways even more remarkable. It is a fictitious letter, purporting to be addressed by none other than Gilgamesh, the famous hero of the epic and legendary king of Uruk (Erech), to the king of another city, the name of which is only partly legible and appears to be hitherto unknown. Gilgamesh,…
The Sultantepe Tablets I
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A Tablet of Incantations against Slander
Among the tablets excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur there is a text containing incantations and rituals against slander and witchcraft. A hand copy of this tablet has been prepared by the present writer for inclusion in a forthcoming volume of texts from Ur; its publication may, however, be anticipated by the following edition, which is offered as a tribute of respect and esteem to the eminent excavator.Incantations against witchcraft have b…
Sumerian and Akkadian Administrative Texts. By G. G. Hackman. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Yale University, Vol. VIII, 1958.
The Sultantepe Tablets ( continued ) VII. The Myth Of Nergal and Ereshkigal
The myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal has long been known to Assyriologists from a Middle Babylonian tablet found among the diplomatic archives of Tell El Amarna. The tablet had apparently been imported into Egypt, perhaps from Syria, together with a similar one inscribed with the myth of Adapa, as a school-text for the training of scribes. It was only in 1951 that fragments of a late Assyrian version of the tale were unearthed at Sultantepe. In 1953…
The Geography of the Hittite Empire
Anatolia c. 4000-2300 B. C
The Sultantepe Tablets I. Addendum II. Additional Corrigenda
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VBoT. Nos. 95 and 97
An Old Babylonian Treatise on the Tuning of the Harp
In recent years the discovery of two Late Babylonian tablets listing the names of the nine strings of the harp, and of musical intervals, and the interpretation of these tablets in a series of articles by Mme. Duchesne-Guillemin and Mrs. Draffkorn Kilmer, have brought the subject of Babylonian music into the forefront of discussion. My own responsibility for the publication of one of the tablets and my interest in the subject led me to consult a …
Anatolia c. 1750-1600 B.C. Vol. II
The Cambridge Ancient History
A List of Copper Objects
The object here published, no. 1931.128 in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, is a seven-sided prism measuring 17 cm. in height and 53 mm. in diameter. It was excavated at Tell Ingharra, Kisn, and Dr. P. R. S. Moorey has kindly provided me with the following note on its provenance:“ Its field reference is C 10 5(5), which means that it was found in area ‘C’, trench number 10, at five metres from the surface of the mound at a place where the …
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