Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster[Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 42]

Melville, Sarah C., and Alice Slotsky, eds

ISBN 10: 9004186522 / ISBN 13: 9789004186521

Published by Brilll, 2010

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Hardcover, no dust jacket. Cover dented on lower edges with small mark along spine. Otherwise VG 489 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster[Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 42]
• Publisher: Brilll
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004186522
• ISBN 13: 9789004186521
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for his friendship. Reflecting on the remarkable breadth of the honoree’s research interests, the twenty-six original papers in this Festschrift cover a wide range of topics in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian literature, economic and social history, as well as art and archaeology.

About the Author

Sarah C. Melville, Ph.D.(1994) Yale University, is Associate Professor of History at Clarkson University. She has published on Neo-Assyrian military history, imperial expansion and collapse, and royal women, including The Role of Naqia/Zakutu in Sargonid Politics (1999).
Alice L. Slotsky, Ph.D. (1992) Yale University, is a Research Affiliate in Assyriology at Yale. Her studies of Late Babylonian prices include The Bourse of Babylon (1997) and Tallies and Trends (2009). She now devotes her research to Babylonian cuisine.