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Piotr
Michalowski
George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department
of Near Eastern Studies
University of
Michigan
4111 Thayer Academic Building
202 South Thayer St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Office telephone: (734)-764-0314
Office fax: (734)-936-2679
e-mail: piotrm@umich.edu
EDUCATION
1968-1976
Yale University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.
M.Phil.
1972. Ph.D. 1976.
1965-1968
University of Warsaw, Poland. M.A. Program in the Department of
Mediterranean.
Archaeology. Simultaneously 1966-1968 in M.A. Program in the Department
of Near
Eastern Philology.
EMPLOYMENT
1995-1996
Acting Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of
Michigan.
1987-1993
Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.
1987
Promoted to Full Professor (Cameron Chair).
1981--George
G. Cameron Professor (Associate) of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations. Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of
Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
1979-1981
Research Associate, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania,
Sumerian
Dictionary Project.
1975-1979
Assistant Professor of Sumerian, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and
Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.
1974-1975
Research Fellow, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Harvard
University.
1974
Part-Time Instructor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures, Yale
University.
EXTRAMURAL
PROFESSIONAL WORK
2009- President,
International Association of Assyriologists
2007-
Member, advisory board, Welt des Orients.
2007-
Editor, Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplementary Series.
2007-project
member, MESPÉRIPH (La Mesopotamie et sa
peripherie : transmission et
adaptations d’une culture au Bronze recent, Agence Nationale de
la
Recherche).
2004-2005
faculty member, seminar on Literature and Culture in the
Ancient
Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East, Venice
International
University.
1991-
Editor-in-chief, Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
1991
President. Middle West Branch, American Oriental Society.
1991-
Member, Advisory Board, Research Institute for Classical, Oriental, and
Medieval Studies, Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.
1990-
Member, editorial board, Athlone Publications in Egyptology and
Ancient Near
Eastern Studies.
1986-1992
Member, editorial board, Society for Biblical Literature Writings
from the
Ancient World Series.
May
1984 Visiting Professor of Semitic Philology, UniversitÃ
degli Studi,
Venice.
1984-
Member, Baghdad School Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research.
1984-
Member, editorial board, monograph series Mesopotamian Civilizations (Eisenbrauns).
1983-
Member, editorial board, American Oriental Society Translations
Series.
1975-1979
Member, editorial board, Sources and Monographs on the Ancient Near
East
(Undena).
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
Guggenheim
Fellowship (2007-2008).
Helmut
F. Stern Professorship, The Humanities Institute, University of
Michigan
(2002-2003).
Elected
to membership, American Philosophical Society (1999).
Senior
Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (1998-2002).
Michigan
Humanities Award (1996).
ACLS
Travel Grant (summer 1989).
NEH
Translation Grant (1988-1991, "Sumerian Letters").
NEH
Translation Grant (1985-1986, "The Royal Correspondence of Ur").
NEH
Summer Fellowship (1985).
American
Philosophical Society Travel Grant (December 1984).
MONOGRAPHS
The
Tablets of Ebla: Concordance and Bibliography. Winona Lake:
Eisenbrauns, 1984. [with S. Beld
and W. W. Hallo].
The
Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur.
Mesopotamian Civilizations 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns,
1989.
Letters
from Early Mesopotamia. Society of Biblical
Literature Translations Series. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1993.
The Correspondence of the Kings
of
Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom.
Mesopotamian Civilizations 15. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 2010 (in
press)
EDITED
MONOGRAPHS
On
Ur III Times: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist. Journal of Cuneiform
Studies Supplementary Series
1. 2008.
Approaches
to Sumerian Literature: Studies in Honour of Stip (H.L.J. Vanstiphout), co-edited with N.
Veldhuis.
Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Velles
Paraules: Studies in Honor of Miguel Civil, co-edited with P.
Steinkeller, E. Stone, and R.
Zettler. Barcelona:, 1993
Law
Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, translated by Martha
Roth with an appendix by H.
Hoffner. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
Translation
(from the Polish) of Stefan Amsterdamski, Between Experience and
Metaphysics. Boston Studies in
the Philosophy
of Science 35. Dortrecht--Boston, 1975.
ARTICLES
"The
Bride of Simanum," Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1976) 716-719.
"Six
Neo-Sumerian Letter-Orders," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 28 (1976) 161-168.
"Royal
Women of the Ur III Period Part I: The Wife of Shulgi," Journal of
Cuneiform Studies
28 (1976) 169-172.
"Amar-Su'ena
and the Historical Tradition," in M. de Jong Ellis ed., Essays on
the
Ancient Near East in Memory of J. J. Finkelstein (Hamden, 1977)
155-157.
"The
Death of Shulgi," Orientalia 46 (1977) 220-225.
"The
Status of Durum and Uruk During the Ur III Period," Mesopotamia 12 (1977) 83-96.
"The
Neo-Sumerian Silver Ring Texts," Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2 (1977) 83-96.
"Ur
III Topographical Names," Oriens Antiquus 16 (1977) 287-296.
"Foreign
Tribute to Sumer During the Ur III Period," Zeitschrift
für
Assyriologie 68
(1978) 34-49.
"Two
Sumerian Literary Letters," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 30 (1978) 114-120.
"Royal
Women of the Ur III Period Part II: Geme-Ninlila," Journal of
Cuneiform
Studies
31
(1979) 171-176.
"Sumerian
as an Ergative Language I," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 32 (1980) 86-103.
"A
New Sumerian Literary 'Catalogue' from Nippur," Oriens Antiquus 32 (1980) 265-268.
"Koenigsbriefe,"
Reallexicon der Assyriologie Vol. V (1981) 51-59.
"Adapa
and the Ritual Process," Rocznik Orientalistyczny 41 (1980) 77-82.
(Studies in
Honor of Rudolf Ranoszek).
"Carminative
Magic: Towards an Understanding of Sumerian Poetics," Zeitschrift
für
Assyriologie 71
(1981) 1-18.
"An
Old Babylonian Literary Fragment Concerning the Kassites," Annali
dell
'Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli 41 (1981) 385-389.
"On
'The Fowler and his Wife'," Revue d'Assyriologie 75 (1981) 170.
"Tudanapshum,
Enlil and Nippur," Revue d'Assyriologie 75 (1981) 173-176.
"New
Sources Concerning the Reign of Naram-Sin," Journal of Cuneiform
Studies
32
(1980) 233-246.
"Royal
Women of the Ur III Period Part III," Acta Sumerologica 4 (1982) 129-139.
"History
as Charter: Some Observations on the Sumerian King List," Journal
of
the American Oriental Society 103 (1983) 237-248.
"Cuneiform
Texts in the National Geographic Society," Oriens Antiquus 22 (1983) 191-203.
"Texts
and Fragments," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1983) 205-208.
"The
Sumerian Verb lug in Old Babylonian Literary Texts," Studii
Epigrafici
e Linguistici 1
(1984) 19-22.
"Observations
on a Literary Catalogue from Ur," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 36 (1984) 89-92.
"Third
Millennium Contacts: Observations on the Relationships Between Mari and
Ebla." Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (1985) 293-302.
"On
Some Early Sumerian Magical Texts" Orientalia 54 (1985) 216-225.
"An
Early Old Babylonian Loan Document," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 38 (1986) 167-171.
"The
Earliest Hurrian Toponymy: A New Sargonic Inscription," Zeitschrift
für
Assyriologie 76
(1986) 4-11.
"Lisina,"
Reallexicon der Assyriologie 7 (1987) 32-33.
"On
The Early History of the Ershahunga Prayer," Journal of Cuneiform
Studies
39
(1987) 37-48.
"Language,
Literature and Writing at Ebla," pp. 165-175 in L. Cagni, ed., Ebla:
1975-1985. Atti del convegno internazionale.
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1987.
"Charisma
and Control: On Continuity and Change in Early Mesopotamian
Bureaucratic
Systems," pp. 55-68 in R. D. Biggs and M. Gibson, eds., The
Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University
of Chicago
Press, 1987. [Pp. 45-58 in 2nd ed. of 1991]
"Mental
Maps and Ideology: Observations on Subartu," pp. 129-156 in H. Weiss,
ed.,
The Origins of Cities in Dry-Farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the
Third
Millennium B. C.
Four Quarters: Guilford, 1988.
"Divine
Heroes and Historical Self-Representation: From Gilgamesh to Shulgi," Bulletin
of the Society of Mesopotamian Studies 16 (1988) 19-23.
"Sin-iddinam
and Ishkur," pp. 265-275 in E. Leichty, ed., A Scientific Humanist.
Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs. Philadelphia: The
Samuel N. Kramer Fund, 1989.
"Magan
and Meluhha Once Again," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 40 (1988) 156-164.
"Thoughts
about Ibrium," pp. 267-277 in H. Hauptmann and H. Waetzoldt, eds, Wirtschaft
und Gesellschaft von Ebla. Heidelberg:
Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1989.
"A
New Sumerian 'Law Code'," pp. 383-396 in B. Eichler, et al, eds., DUMU-E2
-DUB-BA: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg. Philadelphia: The
Samuel N. Kramer Fund, 1990.
"Early
Mesopotamian Communicative Systems: Art, Literature and Writing," pp.
53-69 in Ann C. Gunter, ed., Investigating Artistic Environments in
the
Ancient Near East.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
"Presence
at the Creation," pp. 381-396 in T. Abusch, et al., eds., Lingering
over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of
William L.
Moran.
Harvard
Semitic Studies 37. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1990.
"The
Shekel and the Vizier," Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 80 (1990) 1-8.
"Mari:
the View from Ebla," pp. 243-248 in G. Young, ed., Mari in
Retrospect. Winona Lake:
Eisenbrauns, 1991.
"Babylonian
Grammatical Tradition," pp. 151-153 in William Bright, ed., Oxford
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics vol. 1. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1992.
"The
Sumerian Language," pp. 94-97 in William Bright, ed., Oxford
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics vol. 4. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1992.
"Orality,
Literacy and Early Mesopotamian Literature," pp. 227-245 in M. E.
Vogelzang and H. L. J. Vanstiphout, eds., Mesopotamian Epic
Literature: Oral
or Aural?
Lempeter: Edwin Meller, 1992.
"The
Torch and the Censer," pp. 151-163 in Mark Cohen, et al, eds., The
Tablet and The Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo. Bethesda: CDL Press,
1993.
"The
Early Mesopotamian Incantation Tradition," pp. 305-326 in Pelio
Fronzaroli, ed., Literature and Language at Ebla. Quaderni di
Semitistica 18.
Florence: Dipartimento di linguistica, 1993.
"On
the Early Toponymy of Sumer: A Contribution to the Study of Early
Mesopotamian
Writing," pp. 119-135 in A. F. Rainey, et al, eds, kinattâtu
sa
darâti.
Raphael Kutcher Memorial Volume. Tel Aviv, 1993.
"Negation
as Description: The Metaphor of Everyday Life in Sumerian Literature,"
pp.
131-136 in P. Michalowski, et al., eds., Velles Paraules: Studies
in Honor
of Miguel Civil.
Barcelona: Sabadell, 1993.
"The
Boundaries of Empire: The Politics of Expansion of the Akkad State,"
pp.
69-90 in Mario Liverani, ed., Akkad. Atti del convegno tenuto a
Roma nel
1991.
Padua:
Sargon, 1993.
"Tokenism."
Review article of D. Schmandt-Besserat, Before Writing. American
Anthropologist
95 (1993) 996-999.
"Literacy
in Early States: A Mesopotamianist Perspective," pp. 49-70 in D.
Keller-Cohen, ed., Literacy: Interdisciplinary Conversations. Cresskill: Hampton
Press, 1993.
"The
Drinking Gods: Alcohol in Early Mesopotamian Ritual and Mythology," pp.
27-44 in Lucio Milano, ed., Drinking in Ancient Societies: History
and
Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East. Padua: Sargon, 1994.
"Sumerian
Literary Traditions: An Overview," pp. 2277-2289 in Jack M. Sasson, et
al,
eds, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. New York: Charles
Scribners and
Sons, 1995.
"The
Men From Mari," pp. 181-188 in K. van Lerberghe and A. Schoors, eds., Immigration
and Emigration within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński. Leuven: Peeters,
1995.
Articles
on "Early Mesopotamian Religion," and "Ebla" in: The
Harper Dictionary of Religion (American Academy for
the Study of Religion).
"The
Sumerians," pp. 95-101 in Eric M. Meyers, ed., The Oxford
Encyclopedia
of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
"Ancient
Poetics," pp. 141-53 in M. E. Vogelzang and H. L. J. Vanstiphout, eds.,
Mesopotamian
Poetic Language: Sumerian and Akkadian. Groningen: Styx,
1996.
"Cuneiform:
Origins," pp. 33-36 in W. Bright and P. Daniels, eds., The World's
Writing Systems.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
"Sailing
to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon," pp. 177-94 in Jerrold
Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz, eds., The Study of the Ancient Near
East in
the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Albright Centennial Symposium. Winona Lake:
Eisnebrauns, 1996.
"L'adaption
de l'écriture cunéiforme a l'akkadien," pp.
41-8 in En Syrie: Aux
origines de l'écriture. Louvain: Brepols,
1997 (also published in Flemish).
"Literature
as a Source of Lexical Inspiration: Some Notes on a Hymn to the Goddess
Inana," pp. 65-74 in Jan Braun, et al., eds., Written on Clay and
Stone; Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Krystyna Szarzyńska. Warsaw: Agade, 1998.
"The
Unbearable Lightness of Enlil," pp. 237-247 in J. Prosecký,
ed., Intellectual
Life of the Ancient Near East - Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre
assyriologique internationale Prague, July 1-5, 1996. Prague: Oriental
Institute,
1998.
"Cuneiform
Texts from Kazane Höyük I," (with Adnan
Misir), Journal of Cuneform
Studies
50
(1998) 53-8.
"Commemoration,
Writing, and Genre in Ancient Mesopotamia," pp. 69-90 in: Christina S.
Kraus, ed., The Limits of Historiography: Genre and Narrative in
Ancient
Historical Texts.
Leiden: Brill, 1999.
"Histoire
(de Sumer)," pp. 108-124 in Jacques Briend and Michel Quesnel, eds., Supplément
au Dictionnaire de la Bible, fascicule 72. Paris:
Letouzy & Ané, 1999-2002.
Épopées,
hymnes et lettres," pp. 248-263 in Jacques Briend and Michel Quesnel,
eds., Supplément au Dictionnaire de la Bible, fascicule 72. Paris:
Letouzy
& Ané, 1999-2002.
"Sumer
Dreams of Subir: Politics and the Geographical Imagination" in K. van
Lerberghe and G. Voet, eds., At the Crossroads of Civilizations in
the
Syro-Mesopotamian Realm. Leuven: Peeters,
1999.
"Amorites"
(pp. 55-56), "Ebla," (364-66), and "Hammurapi" (pp. 545-46)
in David Noel Friedman, ed., Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2000.
"Nisaba,"
Reallexicon der Assyriologie 9, 2001, 575-79.
“A
Man Called Enmebaragesi,� pp. 195-208 in W. Sallaberger, K.
Volk, and
A. Zgoll,
eds., Literatur, Politik, und Recht in Mesopotamien. Orientalia Biblica
et
Christiana. Heidelberg:
Harrassowitz.
“The
Doors of the Past,� pp. 136*-152*
in Festschrift for Hayim and Miriam Tadmor, Eretz-Israel 27, ed.
A. Ben-Tor, I. Eph'al, and
P.B. Machinist (Israel Exploration Society, 2003).
“Round
About Nidaba: On the Early Goddesses of Sumer,� in Sex and
Gender
in the
Ancient Near East: Proceedings of
the 47th Rencontre Assyriolgique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6,
2001.
Edited by S. Parpola and R. M.
Whiting.
“The
Earliest Scholastic Tradition.� pp. 450-456 in Art of the
First
Cities: The
Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. Exhibit catalog,
Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
“Ur
III Period/Old Babylonian Period,�
pp. 466-478 in Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium
B.C.
from the Mediterranean to the Indus. Exhibit catalog,
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Revised
version: “Babylonian Grammatical Tradition,� Oxford
International
Encyclopedia
of Linguistics (second, revised edition). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Revised
version: “The Sumerian Language,� Oxford International
Encyclopedia of
Linguistics (second, revised edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“An
Early Dynastic Tablet of ED Lu A from Tell Brak (Nagar)� Cuneiform
Digital
Library Initiative Journal (on line) 2003:3.
"The
Libraries of Babel: Text, Authority, and Tradition in Ancient
Mesopotamia."
pp. 105-129 in Gillis J. Dorleijn and Herman L. J. Vanstiphout, eds., Cultural
Repertories: Structure, Function and Dynamics. Leuven: Peters, 2003.
"The
Mountains and the Stars,"
pp. 403-411 in Semitic and Assyriological Studies Presented to
Pelio
Fronzaroli by Pupils and Colleagues.
Wiresbaden: Harrasowitz, 2003.
"Sumerian,"
pp. 19-59 in Roger D. Woodard, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of
the
World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
"Mesopotamian
Vistas on Axial Transformations," pp. 157-182 in ed.
J. P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt, and B.
Wittrock, eds.,
Axial Civilizations and World History.
Leiden:
Brill, 2005.
"Literary
Works from the Court of King Ishbi-Erra of Isin," pp. 199-212 in ed.
Yitschak Sefatiet et al. eds., An
Experienced Scribe who Neglects Nothing: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
in Honor
of Jacob Klein.
Bethesda: CDL, 2005.
"The
Ideological Foundations of the Ur III State," p. 219-235 in W. Meyer
and
W. Sommerfeld. eds., 2000 v.
Chr. Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung im Zeichen
einer
Jahrtausendwende. 3. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen
Orient-Gesellschaft 4.-7. April
2000 in Frankfurt/Main und Marburg/Lahn,
Saarbrücken 2004.
"The
Life and Death of the Sumerian Language in Comparative Perspective,"Acta
Sumerologica 22
(2000, publ. 2005).
"Iddin-Dagan
and his Family," Zeitschrift für Assyriologie. 95 (2005) 65-76.
"The
Lives of the Sumerian Language," pp. 157-82 in Seth Sanders, ed., Margins
of Writing, Origins of Culture: New Approaches to Writing and Reading
in the
Ancient Near East. Papers from the Symposium held February 25-26, 2005. Chicago: The
Oriental
Institute, 2006.
*"An
Ur III Tablet from Iran," with Parsa Damarshand, Journal of
Cuneiform
Studies 56
(2005)
"The
Strange History of Tumal," pp. 145-66 in P. Michalowski and N.
Veldhuis,
eds.. Approaches to Sumerian Literature: Studies in Honour of Stip
(H.L.J.
Vanstiphout),
Leiden: Brill, 2006.
"The
Cyrus Cylinder," "Royal Letters of the Ur III Kings," "The
Sumerian King List," "The Tumal Chronicle," in Mark Chavalas,
ed., The Ancient Near East.
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2006.
"How
to Read the Liver? In Sumerian," pp. 247-58 in Ann K. Guinan, et al.,
eds., If a Man Builds a Joyful
House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty, , eds.
Leiden: Brill, 2006.
"Love
or Death? Observations on the Role of the Gala in Ur III Ceremonial
Life,"
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 58 (2006) 49-61.
"The
Mortal Kings of Ur: A Short Century of Divine Rule in Ancient
Mesopotamia," in N. Brisch, ed., Religion and Power: Divine
Kingship in
the Ancient World and Beyond.
Chicago:
The Oriental Institute.
"Observations
on 'Elamites' and 'Elam' in Ur III Times." In P. Michalowski, ed., On
Ur III Times: Studies in Honor of X. Journal of Cuneiform
Studies Supplementary Series 1.
ARTICLES
& REVIEWS IN PRESS
"Literary
Letters as Literary Genre," in a book of essays on genre edited by H.
Vanstiphout (Brill).
entries
on Puzur-Shulgi, Puzur-Numushda, Puzur-Nirah, Pu-abi, Simaski, etc. in Reallexicon
der Assyriologie.
Review
of D. Collon and A. George, eds., Nineveh..., in Journal of
Near Eastern
Studies.
"Masters
of the Four Corners of the Universe: Views of the Universe in
Early
Mesopotamian Writings." In K.
Raaflaub and R. Talbert, eds., Geography, Ethnography, and
Perspectives of
the World from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
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"Maybe
Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sunerian Heroic Poetry." In D. Konstans and K. Raaflaub, eds., Epic
and History.
Oxford: Blackwells.
"Sound
of Silence: Music in Mesopotamian Schooling." In R. Pruzsinszky and D.
Shehata, eds., Musiker und ihre Rolle bei der Verschlichtigung und
Tradierung von literarischen Werken.
BOOK
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Gurney and S. N. Kramer, Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean
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"Moses
among the Anthropologists. A Note," review of E. Leach and D. A.
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Alster and Markham J. Geller, Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian
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“Lost
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"Incantation
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"Enlil
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"Two
Old Babylonian Texts from Kazane Huyuk," N.A.B.U. 1996: 79-80 (with
Adnan Misir).
"Working
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The New Book of Knowledge.
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