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He Has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning Cuneiform Monographs Editors t. abusch – m.j. geller s.m. maul – f.a.m. wiggermann VOLUME 46 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/cumo He Has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning Studies in Honor of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg on the Occasion of His 89th Birthday on August 1st 2013 Edited by Leonhard Sassmannshausen in collaboration with Georg Neumann LEIDEN • BOSTON 2014 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data He has opened Nisaba’s house of learning : studies in honor of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg on the occasion of his 89th birthday on August 1st 2013 / edited by Leonhard Sassmannshausen in collaboration with Georg Neumann. p. cm. — (Cuneiform monographs ; v. 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-26074-0 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-26075-7 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. Akkadian philology. 2. Sumerian philology. 3. Sumerians. 4. Middle East— Civilization—To 622. I. Sjöberg, Åke W. II. Sassmannshausen, Leonhard. III. Neumann, Georg. PJ3126.S56H42 2014 892’.1—dc23 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0929-0052 ISBN 978-90-04-26074-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-26075-7 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................................ vii Publications of Å.W. Sjöberg ....................................................................... ix Listen to the Roaring Ox: K 7674+, On Some Proverbial Sayings from the Neo-Assyrian Period. Studies in Bilingual Proverbs III .................................................................................................. 1 Bendt Alster IAS 298 und IAS 328 ...................................................................................... 11 Josef Bauer Vizir, concubine, entonnoir . Comment lire et comprendre le signe SAL.ḪUB2? .................................................................................... 25 Antoine Cavigneaux et Frans Wiggermann A New Piece of an Inanna/Dumuzi Lamentation ................................ 37 Mark E. Cohen Diorite and Limestone: A Sumerian Perspective .................................. 51 Benjamin R. Foster Slaves and Strangers ....................................................................................... 57 William W. Hallo Two Lullabies ................................................................................................... 61 Margaret Jaques Zum altassyrischen Eherecht ...................................................................... 73 Burkhart Kienast The “Stars (of) Heaven” and Cuneiform Writing .................................. 85 Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati The Rejected Sheep ........................................................................................ 103 Erle Leichty and Ann Guinan vi contents Un modèle culturel sumerien : l’élevage .................................................. 113 Henri Limet Zur Archäologie der Schrift: Die Erfindung des Rebusprinzips in protoschriftlicher Zeit ......................................................................... 125 Ludwig D. Morenz Überlegungen zu den „Graeco-Babyloniaca“ .......................................... 147 Joachim Oelsner Kassitische Herrscher und ihre Namen ................................................... 165 Leonhard Sassmannshausen Dumuzi(d)s Wiederkehr? ............................................................................. 201 Gebhard J. Selz (TS)Š 302, eine Importtafel aus Uruk in Šuruppak? ............................ 217 Horst Steible und Fatma Yıldız The Sumerian Debate Poems: A General Presentation, Part III ...... 229 Herman Vanstiphout The Early Dynastic Kiš Tradition ............................................................... 241 Niek Veldhuis Four and a half “Quasi-Hüllentafeln” ........................................................ 261 Gabriella Voet and Karel Van Lerberghe The Ear and Its Wisdom ............................................................................... 281 Joan Goodnick Westenholz Dreams as Gods and Gods in Dreams. Dream-Realities in Ancient Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium B.C. ................. 299 Annette Zgoll Index ................................................................................................................... 315 PREFACE It was about 24 years ago that Åke received his first Festschrift. Nobody had asked or informed him. Perhaps rightly so, because Åke is not very much in favour of honorific ceremonies. He had his birthday on the same day as his colleague James Pritchard, and therefore was invited to a party “for Jim Pritchard”, not knowing that the purpose of the party was actu- ally to present a Festschrift to him. He was totally surprised when sud- denly a book was presented, bound in leather with the printing MNS II on the back, referring to Åke’s “Der Mondgott Nanna-Suen, part I”, Åke’s dissertation. The alleged MNS II was actually the Festschrift “DUMU-E2- DUB-BA-A”. At that time, Åke was an academic star of which the University Museum and the University of Pennsylvania were very proud, and who was often visited by journalists. Now he is retired from his professorship and his wife and companion Gunnil, just as loyal and dedicated to him as he was to her, back then not only lecturer of Swedish at the university, but also Åke’s chauffeur and nutritionist who kept him going, is not in good health any more. Nevertheless, Åke is still working. To those interested in Meso- potamian literature he will always remain a star. 24 years ago, the indefat- igable lexicographer was honored. A man with an incredible dedication to and enthusiasm for his academic discipline. Now we honor a man so kind, helpful, generous and witty that it would be impossible to forget him. An openminded man who chose collaborators with a philosophy considerably different from his own. The man who opened Nisaba’s house of learning: through many text editions, through his dictionary, through teaching, by giving jobs at the dictionary project to young scholars, by sharing knowl- edge and by making the vast holdings of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum accessible to every qualified scholar from anywhere in the world, including students. There were only few unpublished texts which Åke “protected” for certain scholars. And not only did Åke open the house of learning, but also his kitchen. Innumerable visiting scholars and students were invited to the home of the Sjöbergs for dinner and discus- sions over academic and private matters, music or politics. Just one characteristic anecdote: When I told Åke at dinner in the Sjöbergs’ Haverford home that I could not find a copy of A.T. Clay’s “Per- sonal Names of the Cassite Period” at the museum, he went upstairs to his viii preface library, brought a copy with his name written on the first page, and gave it to me, adding with a pencil: “Von Åke Sjöberg gestohlen, Philadelphia Febr. 24th 1996.” But the point is, what Åke did for his field, is still of consequence and of lasting importance. And it is not only appropriate, but actually neces- sary, to honor this. This time, once again, Åke was not asked whether he would have wanted a Festschrift. The likely answer would have been “no!” But this Festschrift is in the first place our way to thank Åke, and if you thank someone, you don’t ask him whether he wants you to thank him. My thanks go in the first place to Georg Neumann who did much more than just taking care of all electronic matters, to Joachim Hengstl with- out whose encouragement I might never have dared to ask scholars for articles, to Ann Guinan who helped with the publication in many ways, and to the authors, both for their patience and for their impatience. In the years during which this volume was produced, the editor had to work several jobs parallel. I would like to apologize to everyone who wrote me for having been a lousy correspondent for a long time, who only reacted when it seemed immediately urgent. To those sending e-mails to me: Had you sent me clay tablets, you would have certainly received a speedy answer. Abbreviations throughout the volume follow the Sumerian Dictionary of the University of Pennsylvania vol. A III. Any literature not found there is cited according to the Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago vol. U/W; if not found there, according to the Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 12. The title is taken from the Nisaba Hymn A: e2-ĜEŠTUG2-dNisaba-ke4 gal2 nam-mi-in-taka4 “He has verily opened the House of Learning of