Extraction & control. Studies in honor of Matthew W. Stolper

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 68. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 2014. First edition. In-4, xvi & 352 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: Matthew W. Stolper / Christoper Woods [and three others] -- Bibliography of publications of Matthew W. Stolper / Charles E. Jones -- Persepolis fortification Aramaic tablet seal 0002 and the keeping of horses / Annalisa Azzoni and Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre -- An episode in the reign of the Babylonian pretender Nebuchadnezzar IV / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- Achaemenid estate(s) near Pasargadae? / Re_my Boucharlat -- Les tablettes du bois du Grand roi / Pierre Briant -- Royal women in Elamite art / Elizabeth Carter -- Iddin-Nabû s__pir __a gardu / Walter Farber -- The royal-name seals of Darius I / Mark B. Garrison -- De vie à trépas / François Grillot-Susini -- The estates of __ama__ on the H___b__r / Michael Jursa and Klaus Wagensonner -- Elamite and rdegAkkadian inscribed bricks from Bard-e Karegar (Khuzistan, Iran) / Michael Kozuh -- Reassessing the reign of Xerxes in the light of new evidence / Ame_lie Kuhrt -- Cultural exchange at Kültepe / Mogens Trolle Larsen and Agnete Wisti Larsen -- The curricular context of an Akkadian prayer from Old Babylonian Ur (UET 6 402) / Jacob Lauinger -- Myth, history, cosmology, and hydraulics in Achaemenid Iran / Bruce Lincoln -- Biography of a sentence : Assurbanipal, Nabonidus, and Cyrus / Piotr Michalowski -- Periodicities and period relations in Babylonian celestial sciences / Francesca Rochberg -- On persons in the Old Babylonian Law collections : the case of m__r aw__lim in bodily injury provisions / Martha T. Roth -- Gilgamesh and the ius primae noctis / Gonzalo Rubio -- Cyrus the Great, exiles, and foreign gods : a comparison of Assyrian and Persian policies on subject nations / R.J. van der Spek -- Persians on the Euphrates? : material culture and identity in two Achaemenid burials from Hac?nebi, southeast Turkegy / Gil J. Stein -- On the Dynasty of S_ima__ki : twenty years (or so) after / Piotr Steinkeller -- Some thoughts on the ustarbaru / Jan Tavernier -- A statue of Darius in the Temple of Sippar / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Earth, water, and friendship with the king : Argos and Persia in the mid-fifth century / Matthew W. Waters -- Freedom and dependency : neo-Babylonian manumission documents with oblation and service obligation / Cornelia Wunsch and F. Rachel Magdalene -- From lower land to Cappadocia / Ilya Yakubovich. Language: English - French/Français - German/Deutsch. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia.…