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The scourge of god : the Umman-manda and its significance in the first millenium B.C.
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Title
The scourge of god : the Umman-manda and its significance in the first millenium B.C. / by Selim Ferruh Adali.
ISBN
9789521013355
9521013354
Published
[Helsinki] : Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, c2011.
Physical Description
xviiii, 218 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Revised and updated version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.
Includes transliterated texts in Akkadian with English translation and commentary.
Variant and related titles
Umman-manda and its significance in the first millenium B.C.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2011
Series
State archives of Assyria studies, v. 20
Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, no. 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-211) and indexes.
Contents
Sources and written form
Etymology
The omen tradition
The literary texts
From Anatolia and the Levant
Literary allusions
Neo-Assyrian sources
Neo-Babylonian sources
Umman-manda in the inscriptions of Nabonidus
Emerging pattern
Excursus: The lexical analysis of mandum.
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