Benjamin R Foster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 598908 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin R Foster |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin R |
| SOBRENOME | Foster |
| ASSINATURA | FOSTER B R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-8265-6790 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Suffering in Babylon
Weapons of Words
Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry. A Study of Anzû, Enūma Eliš, and Erra and Išum. By Selena Wisnom. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. viii + 280. $185
Third Millennium
The Third Millennium: Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in Honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik. Edited by IlyA Arkhipov, Leonid Kogan, and Natalia Koslova. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 50. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxiii + 829, illus. $234
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
An Old Babylonian Dialogue between a Father and his Son
This article is the editio princeps of a large Old Babylonian clay prism, now in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The text written on it is a long wisdom composition that is hitherto mostly unknown. It begins with a father and son embroiled in an abusive dialogue, and ends with a monologue in which the father looks forward to death and curses his son. The critical edition is accompanied by cuneiform copies and photographs
Akkad (Agade)
Akkad was originally the name of an area and city near the confluence of the Diyala and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (Adams 1965; Weiss 1997). The meaning of the word is unknown. After it became the seat of the Sargonic Dynasty around 2300 bce , Akkad as a territory expanded to mean northern Babylonia, from north of Nippur to Sippar. The city of the same name is first attested in the late Early Dynastic period, became an imperial capital in the S…
Kramer, Samuel Noah (1897–1990)
Samuel Noah Kramer was a leading figure in the creation of the modern discipline of Sumerology. He was the first to piece together, decipher, and edit major works of Sumerian mythology and literature. He also wrote extensively for a popular audience; it is largely thanks to him that the Sumerians became widely known outside of the small domain of cuneiform studies.
Haupt, Paul (1858–1926)
Paul Haupt (1858–1926), Assyriologist, biblical scholar, and professor at the Johns Hopkins University for over forty years, was a leading exponent of nineteenth‐century German philological and biblical text‐critical scholarship in the United States. His most prominent student and successor at Johns Hopkins was William F. Albright.
Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien
Aspekte des Menschseins im Alten Mesopotamien: Eine Studie zu Person und Identität im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. By Ulrike Steinert. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 44. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxi + 619. $252
Recent Studies of the Role of Writing in Mesopotamian Civilization
Journal of Cuneiform Studies , the Early Years
Guti
A people Guti and a land Gutium are attested in Mesopotamian inscriptions, archival documents, and literature, from the last quarter of the third millennium bce to the Hellenistic period.
Akkadian language
Akkadian refers to the East Semitic language spoken and written in Mesopotamia from about 2400 bce to the Christian era (Huehnergard and Woods 2004).
Atrahasis
Atrahasis is a mythological narrative poem in Akkadian that sets forth the creation of the human race, the flood, and the beginnings of human birth, procreation, marriage, and death. It proposes that when laboring gods went on strike against their taskmasters, human beings were created to do the work instead.
Enuma Elish
Enuma Elish is a Babylonian narrative poem in seven tablets, of which about 1,090 lines are preserved (Foster 2005: 436–86; Lambert 2008: 37–59; Akkadian text, Talon 2005).
Ereshkigal and Nergal
Ereshkigal (“Mistress of the Great Place”) was queen of the Netherworld.
Etana
According to the Sumerian King List, Etana was the thirteenth king of Kish in the first dynasty to rule after the flood, a “shepherd” who “went up to heaven” and “put all countries in order.”
Erra
The god Erra is first attested in Mesopotamian personal names of the late third millennium BCE .
Literature and poetry, ancient Near East
Literature has two meanings when applied to the writings known today from the ancient Near East.
Umma
The Sumerian city of Umma, modern Tell Djokha, is located about 60 km east of the present course of the Euphrates in southern Iraq.
Banquets, ancient Near East
Banquets are first shown in Sumerian and Elamite seals and Sumerian stone plaques of the third millennium BCE , sometimes outdoors, in some cases perhaps agrarian or hunting feasts (Collon 1992).
Flood stories, ancient Near East
Flood stories refer to extended texts and passing references to a universal deluge in Akkadian, Sumerian, and Greek from Mesopotamia, and Hebrew from ancient Israel.
Land and landholding, ancient Near East
Ownership and possession of land are well attested in Mesopotamian documents from the early third millennium until the fifth century BCE , with scattered evidence thereafter.
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Feeding Cities
Economic Structures of Antiquity
Agoranomos and Muhtasib
The object of this paper is to clarify the alleged relationship beween the of Roman times and the muhtasib of the Islamic empire. It has been stated that the latter is derived from the former 1), so this paper undertakes to investigate what relation there could be between the two. To do this we have to show that the muhtasib and the had the same function and that the office of the agoranomia was in existence at the time of the Arab conquests. We …
A New Look At the Sumerian Temple State
Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption
Journal of Cuneiform Studies , the Early Years
The Organization of Power
A Postscript to the “Letter of Gilgamesh”
The celebrated “Letter of Gilgamesh,” treated by Gurney, AnSt VII (1957), 127 ff. and by Kraus, AnSt XXX (1980), 109 ff., has so far remained without parallel in Akkadian literature. Kraus pondered the significance and interpretation of this enigmatic text, and found it an “Erstling” (p. 120). He looked ahead to Ovid for a parallel. With diffidence one may also look backward to some obscure school-boy efforts from Sargonic Girsu. In the archives …
Agoranomos and Muhtasib
The object of this paper is to clarify the alleged relationship beween the of Roman times and the muhtasib of the Islamic empire. It has been stated that the latter is derived from the former 1), so this paper undertakes to investigate what relation there could be between the two. To do this we have to show that the muhtasib and the had the same function and that the office of the agoranomia was in existence at the time of the Arab conquests. We …
Commercial Activity in Sargonic Mesopotamia
Records of commercial activity from Sargonic Mesopotamia offer a wealth of evidence to the student of ancient trade and business. In view of the richness of the documentation and the dearth of studies dealing with it, a broad survey of the problems and evidence seems called for in preference to a detailed study of a particular issue or group of texts. Questions that such a survey confronts are the nature and purpose of commerce in Sargonic Mesopo…
Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia Chiefly from Nippur. Pt. 1. Literary and Lexical Texts and the Earliest Administrative Documents from Nippur . Aage Westenholz
Altorientalische Forschungen I
A Lapidary's Gift to Geštinanna
Among the ancient Near Eastern objects in the Newell Bequest collection at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, is the gypsum stand published herewith. On the basis of its dedicatory inscription, which will be discussed in detail below, the object's provenance can be established as the sanctuary of Ningizzida and Geštinanna at Girsu (Telloh). The piece was probably found when the sanctuary was plundered by illegal diggers in August, 1924. At t…
Étude de documents de la période d'Agadé appartenant à l'Université de Liège . Henri Limet
Texts and Fragments
A New Look At the Sumerian Temple State
Archives and Record-keeping in Sargonic Mesopotamia
A Postscript to the “Letter of Gilgamesh”
The celebrated “Letter of Gilgamesh,” treated by Gurney, AnSt VII (1957), 127 ff. and by Kraus, AnSt XXX (1980), 109 ff., has so far remained without parallel in Akkadian literature. Kraus pondered the significance and interpretation of this enigmatic text, and found it an “Erstling” (p. 120). He looked ahead to Ovid for a parallel. With diffidence one may also look backward to some obscure school-boy efforts from Sargonic Girsu. In the archives …
Selected Business Documents from Sargonic Mesopotamia
A New Sargonic Year Name
Self-Reference of an Akkadian Poet
Benjamin R. Foster, Self-Reference of an Akkadian Poet, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 123-130
The Sargonic Victory Stele from Telloh
The Sargonic victory stele from Telloh is one of the most celebrated works of art from third millennium Mesopotamia. Two fragments, one inscribed (AO 2679 = Pl. III) and one with relief (AO 2678 = Pl. II), have been known since 1893, and all who have examined them agree that the two fragments very probably belong to the same monument. Because of the incomplete inscription, the monument has generally been dated on art historical grounds to sometim…
Umma in the Sargonic Period
Vavilonskie Pisci
Ancient Anatolia
Umma in the Sargonic Period
Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East
The Organization of Power
Trois textes paléo-assyriens de New York et les affaires confuses d'Iddin-Is̆tar
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God
Ancient Persia
Altsumerische Verwaltungstexte aus Lagas Teil 1, Die altsumerischen Wirtschaftsurkunden der Eremitage zu Leningrad
The Brockmon Tablets at the University of Haifa
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