If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erie Verdun Leichty (Cuneiform Monographs)
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PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
ISBN / ASIN9004146326
ISBN-139789004146327
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Description
This volume honors Erle Verdun Leichty's substantial and wide-ranging contributions to the study of ancient Mesopotamia. The articles represent the latest thinking of leading scholars in the field of Assyriology/Sumerology.
Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists.
The editors are both students of the honoree and colleagues from the Babylonian Section of the University Museum.
Thirty-eight contributions cover the following subjects: history, divination, magic, religion, ritual, medicine, literature, prosopography, lexicography, art and archaeology, and the history of the field. Some fifty texts are published and discussed for the first time. The volume is a valuable resource for Assyriologists and Sumerologists.
The editors are both students of the honoree and colleagues from the Babylonian Section of the University Museum.


