From the Banks of the Euphrates: Studies in Honor of Alice Louise SlotskyMicah Ross Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests. |
Contents
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Ancient Chronologys Alpha and Egyptian | 35 |
Assyriology and English Literature | 51 |
The Eyes of Nefertiti | 83 |
or What Ever Became of Mesopotamian | 99 |
House Omens in Mesopotamia and India | 121 |
A Possible Substitution in the | 135 |
Two Ivory Carvings from Hierakonpolis | 169 |
Mesopotamian Sexagesimal Numbers in Indian | 193 |
In Praise of the Just | 207 |
A Short History of the Waters of the Firmament | 227 |
Alls DUR That Ends Twr | 245 |
Museum | 265 |
A New Stone Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II | 267 |
Some Details on the Transmission of Astral Omens | 295 |
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