The Rod and Measuring Rope

Festschrift for Olof Pedersén

Mattias Karlsson

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783447198769
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This volume is dedicated to Olof Pedersén, professor emeritus in Assyriology at Uppsala University and primarily known for his studies on the archives and libraries of the cities of Assur and Babylon. The main title of the book, The Rod and Measuring Rope, alludes to the honoree's architectural background and to his characteristic great attention to details and exactness in teaching and research, and the contributors to his Festschrift are colleagues, friends, and former students.Reflecting the broad interests of the honoree, the contributions vary in terms of subject (ranging e.g. from notes on grammar to plans of archaeological reconstruction), source type (e.g. with contributions both on research history and based on the analysis of ancient sources), time period (ranging from the Early Dynastic period down to the Neo-Assyrian period), and geography (including e.g. Egypt, Syria, and Iran, beside Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia). Not only papers in Assyriology can be found in the book but also ones rooted in Near Eastern Archaeology, Egyptology, and Biblical and Graeco-Roman studies. Because of this inclusivity, this book will be of use to readers focused on Assyriology as well as to those centred on related disciplines and to those generally interested in the Ancient Near East. The book is richly illustrated with images, drawings, and graphs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Pages
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Bibliography of Olof Pedersén
• Jakob Andersen: Do Not Study Assyrian! A Survey of Swedish Assyriological and Ancient Near Eastern Researchers ca. 1760 –2000
• Eckart Frahm: Two Cylinder Fragments from Assur with a Late Assyrian Royal Building Inscription
• Nils P. Heeßel: Spuren moderner Textkritik oder Bewahrung der Tradition? Bemerkungen zu einer Textkorrektur in bīt mēseri II 3-32
• Bo Isaksson: A Misunderstood Biblical Hebrew Participle Clause in Genesis 33.13 and Its Clause Linking Context in a Complete Utterance
• Mattias Karlsson: Babylon in Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• Ulla S. Koch: Causerie on the Coils of the Colon: Evidence for Middle Babylonian Extispicy from the “House of the Seer”
• Stephen Lumsden: The Urban Topography of Iron Age Hama
• Bonnie Nilhamn: Tokens - silent archive of the agreed
• Gullög C. Nordquist: East and West. Contacts across the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age
• Daniel T. Potts: Urdalika, Ardericca and Dāliki
• Julian Edgeworth Reade: The Nergal Gate and the South-West Palace at Nineveh: appearances and disappearances in the late Ottoman Period
• Therese Rodin: The Female Breasts in Sumerian Literature: the sign(s), the contexts and the Akkadian correspondences
• Gebhard J. Selz with Judith Pfitzner: Whirlwinds and the ‘Babel of the tongues’: Remarks on Secondary Iconization
• List of references