Table of Contents

1. Masculine or Feminine? The Case of Conflicting Gender Determinatives for Middle Babylonian Personal Names. John A. Brinkman 2. Early Semitic Loanwords in Sumerian. Miguel Civil 3. Pecus non olet?: Visiting the Royal Stockyards of Drehem during the First Month of Amarsu * ena 2. Gertrud Farber 4. Imgur-Sin und seine beiden Sohne: Eine (nicht ganz) neue altbabylonische Erbteilungsurkunde aus Ur, gefunden wahrscheinlich in Larsa. Walter Farber 5. A "Galleon" at Nippur. McGuire Gibson 6. Love and Dogs. Brigitte Groneberg 7. Eine Verbalform zum Nachdenken. Hans Hirsch 8. A Brief Commentary on the Hittite Illuyanka Myth. Harry A. Hoffner 9. How to Make the Gods Speak: A Late Babylonian Tablet Related to the Micro-Zodiac. Hermann Hunger 10. Zum Imperative des Semitischen. Burkhart Kienast 11. "Of Babies, Boats, and Arks S." Anne Kilmer 12. An Exotic Babylonian God-List. Wilfred G. Lambert 13. "Going to the River." Mogens Trolle Larsen 14. Some Speculative History. Erle V. Leichty 15. Shamash of Sippar and the First Dynasty of Babylon. Jennie Myers 16. The Best of Times. Erica Reiner 17. On Amputation, Beating, and Illegal Seizure. Martha T. Roth 18. On Sand Dunes, Mountain Ranges, and Mountain Peaks. Piotr Steinkeller 19. Remarks on Some Sumerograms and Akkadian Words. Marten Stol 20. Kasr Texts: Excavated, But Not in Berlin. Matthew W. Stolper 21. Sisterly Advice on an Endangered Marriage in an Old Assyrian Letter. K. R. Veenhof 22. The True Shepherd of Uruk. Joan Goodnick Westenholz 23. The Paleography and Values of the Sign KIB. Christopher Woods 24. Clay Sealings from the Early Dynastic I Levels of the Inanna Temple at Nippur: A Preliminary Analysis. Richard L. Zettler

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