Calendars and festivals in Mesopotamia in the third and second millennia BC /

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Imprint:Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
Description:xvi, 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), chart, facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studia Chaburensia, 1869-845X ; volume 9
Studia Chaburensia ; v. 9.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12636725
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Other authors / contributors:Shibata, Daisuke, 1973- editor, author.
Yamada, Shigeo (Archaeologist), editor, author.
Tsukuba Daigaku, host institution.
ISBN:9783447115957
3447115955
Notes:Selected papers from a conference held at the University of Tsukaba on March 23-24, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Standard no.:9783447115957
Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of calendars in the Third Millennium BCE : deities, festivals, seasons, and the cultural construction of time / Walther Sallaberger
  • Calendars, festivals, and rituals at Mari during the šakkanakku period : from the end of the third to the beginning of the Second Millennium BC / Laurent Colonna d'Istria
  • Calendars in old Assyrian sources / Cécile Michel
  • "Nippur calendar" and other calendars in the Old Babylonian Period / Dominique Charpin
  • The Upper-Mesopotamian, or so-called "Šamšī-Adad calendar" / Nele Ziegler
  • Calendar and festivals at Mari according to the Royal Archives from the reign of Zimri-Lim / Antoine Jacquet
  • Calendars, month names and local traditions in Terqa in the Second Millennium BCE / Olivier Rouault
  • Calendars of the land of Ḫana and the Middle Assyrian land of Māri in the Second Millennium BC / Daisuke Shibata and Shigeo Yamada
  • The loss of the local calendar at Emar / Daniel E. Fleming
  • The zukru cycle in the light of the planting rites in Emar / Masamichi Yamada.