GUIDE TO THE PAPERS OF BENNO LANDSBERGER

I. DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title: Landsberger, Benno. Papers.

Dates:

Size:

Extent: 3 hollinger boxes, 1 banker's box

Repository: Oriental Institute of the University of 1155 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637

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II. INFORMATION ON USE

Access: No restrictions.

Use: No restrictions.

Citation: When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Landsberger, Benno. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Oriental Institute of the .

III. HISTORY

IV. BIOGRAPHY

V. SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection contains various documents from Benno Landsberger including:correspondence, notes, manuscripts, photographs, mimeographs, and plates of drawings.

IV. BOX INVENTORY

Guide to the Papers of Benno Landsberger ©18-Sep-2020 Oriental Institute Page 1 of 6 Box 001: Miscellaneous Documents: This box contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and mimeographs of drawings with handwritten and typewritten transliterations, as well as plates of Kultepe.

Folder 001: Jungfraulichkeit Manuscript: Typescript with Edits and Notes: This folder contains Benno Landsberger's typescript with edits and notes of and for "Jungfraulichkeit: Ein Beitrag zum Thema 'Beilager und Eheschliessung' - mit einem Anhang: Neue Lesungen und Deutungen im Gesetzbuch von Eshnunna." Reference to Martin David and his research on the topic of "Eheschliessung." These are multiple drafts that were exchanged between and Benno Landsberger.

Folder 002: Benno Landsberger Correspondence: This folder contains various correspondence between Benno Landsberger and Kemal Balkan, Rykle Borger, Hans Ehelolf, Adam Falkenstein, Henri Frankfort, Oliver Gurney, James Kinnier-Wilson, Paul Koschaker, Wilfred Lambert, Richard Litke, Lubor Matouš, Fritz Mezger, and . There are notes labeled Finkelstein but these are not correspondence, but rather handwritten notes (in Landsberger's handwriting) to manuscripts.

Folder 003: Study of OA Incantation Kt ATK 611: This folder contains a mimeographed study of OA Incantation kt atk 611.

Folder 004: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Notes: This folder contains correspondence and notes on various subjects. Gathered into separate series with a title slip for each site or subject. Folder labeled "Collations according to museum number." Circa 1940-60s. Specifically, there is a letter from Landsberger to Oliver Gurney.

Folder 005: Correspondence: This folder contains Landsberger correspondence, mostly from 1963. Including an address list probably used to send particular people offprints .

Folder 006: Typed Lectures of F.R. Kraus: This folder contains clean typescripts of lecture notes and articles, with various notes and aerogrammes addressed to Benno Landsberger. Includes typed lecture by F.R. Kraus to Oriental Institute in the Netherlands on January 21, 1953 in poor condition.

Folder 007: Miscellaneous Photographs: Old Assyrian Photographs. Some are labeled by letters that indicate seasons, for instance 'M' and "N'. Most photographs have what appear to be museum accession numbers on the back.

Folder 008: Manuscripts and Notes: This folder contains manuscriprs and notes from Benno Landsberger. This includes a handwritten manuscript published as "Einige unerkannt gebliebene oder verkannte Nomina des Akkadischen" Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 56 (1960), 109-129. Also includes notes, fragment of articles (?) and copies of tablets.

Folder 009: Damaged Typescript: This folder contains a damaged typescript titled "Har-ra = hubullu, Tafel 17." Folder is labeled "Text Hh XVII/checked and taken/Nolo me tangere." With offprint (completely intact) of "Zu 280 f. frd Kod Hamm. Von B. Landsberger. This is MSL 10.

Guide to the Papers of Benno Landsberger ©18-Sep-2020 Oriental Institute Page 2 of 6 Folder 010: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Notes: This folder contains mimeographs of drawings of tablets with handwritten and typewritten transliterations. These are all Old Assyrian texts, K numbers, not sure if these are all published.

Folder 011: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Notes: This folder contains plates of drawings of the tablets of Kultepe, likely removed from a book, with Landsberger's notes in pencil on many pages.

Folder 012: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Photographs: This folder contains handwritten notes and photographs of tablets.

Box 002: Miscellaneous Documents: This box contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts, transliterations, and photographs.

Folder 001: Portfolio: Nesredilmemis: This folder contains 29 pages of notes titled in Turkish as "Nesredilmemis" or "unpublished" in English translation. These are all Old Assyrian Texts.

Folder 002: Notes: This folder contains 13 pages of notes in German and Turkish transliterations from the Landsberger papers. These are on Old Assyrian texts.

Folder 003: Unpublished Notes: This folder contians 57 pages notes, handwriten and typed, including transliterations.

Folder 004: Medical Commentary: This folder contains 9 pages of typescript and notes for an appendix to a Medical Commentary. Portions of the typescript are in very poor condition.

Folder 005: Hh. XVII notes and scraps: This folder contains 29 pages of notes, including a letter to Landsberger and from Landsberger to the British Museum.

Folder 006: Notes and Scraps: This folder contains 98 pages of handwriten and typed notes and 6 photographs of objects. Notes for Landberger's work on the cultic calendar. This should be all published. There are accompanying photographs.

Folder 007: Prof. Landsberger, Diverse Ms.: This folder contains 14 pages of notes on a manuscript article.

Folder 008: Kultepe Notes: This folder contains 10 pages of notes and transliterations. The first sheet refers to a Kultepe tablet. These are all Old Assyrian texts and there are letters that designate the season.

Folder 009: Copies of the Cappadocian Tablets from Kultepe: This folder contains 22 renderings of the Cappadocian Tablets from Kultepe. Most of these tablets are in Oxford and Edinburgh.

Folder 010: Bronze Anatolian: This folder contains 42 pages of notes and transliterations and 1 photograph of a tablet. There is a letter to Oppenheim in the year 1960.

Guide to the Papers of Benno Landsberger ©18-Sep-2020 Oriental Institute Page 3 of 6 Folder 011: Kultepe Sealing and Tablets: This folder contains 25 photographs of various tablets and 8 pages of handwritten notes. "Kultepe Sigel".

Folder 012: Kultepe Reports: This folder contains 5 pages of typed letters in Turkish.

Folder 013: Gilgamesh: This folder contains 90 typewritten pages of Landsberger's "Zur vierten und siebenten Tafel des Gilgamesch-Epos" and 50 handwritten pages of same article.

Folder 014: Lambert and Sollberger Correspondence regarding ABL Tablets: This folder contains 35 pages of miscellaneous documents, primarily correspondences with Lambert, W.G. and transliterations of tablets. This folder also contains 1 photograph of a tablet. ABL and British Museum Collations.

Folder 015: Correspondence: This folder contains 4 pages of letters addressed to Landsberger in the 1960s.

Folder 016: Falkenstein: This folder contains 2 documents, the first a small card titled "Prof. Dr. Adam Falkenstein" and the other a note conerning Falkenstein's obersation about a hymn.

Folder 017: Correspondence: This folder contains 3 correspondences concerning the Oriental Institute's posthumous request for Landsberger's David Festschrifts off-prints.

Folder 018: Handwriten Notes, Letters & Transliterations: This folder contains handwritten notes and transliterations of a copy of a manuscript. There are also handwritten letters from Golb to Von Soden dated 1950 and a memo from McAdams to Civil dated 1968 welcoming him to the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary team. Xerox of Landsberger yellow pages.

Folder 019: Hh. XIX: This folder contains 27 pages of typed notes and transliterations of Har-ra=hubullu 19 (and 17, 18). Some of the pages are flaking.

Folder 020: Old Assyrian Notes: This folder contains 6 pages of handwritten notes on Jo 123-28. Old Assyrian notes.

Folder 021: Copy of Article Published in Z.A.: This folder contains 7 pages of a handwritten manuscript of "Lexicographische Studien von Woldemar J. Schileico."

Folder 022: Miscellaneous Collations: This folder contains 82 pages of handwriten notes and several sizes of paper. These are miscellaneous collations.

Folder 023: Collations pertaining to Publications: This folder contains 40 pages of documents pertaining to collations of a publication.

Folder 024: Mailing Lists: Landsberger: This folder contains a mailing list of individuals in the field of Near Eastern Studies and Assyriology. These mailing lists were used to send offprints.

Folder 025: Miscellaneous Lexical Notes: This folder contains 65 pages of notes dealing with Landsberger's lexical observations on several sizes of paper. There is also two photographs of different tablets including Tablet 10989.

Guide to the Papers of Benno Landsberger ©18-Sep-2020 Oriental Institute Page 4 of 6 Folder 026: Matous: This folder contains 2 pages of of Akkadian transcriptions.

Folder 027: Correspondence regarding Kultepe: This folder contains 14 pages of typewritten letters and envelopes. Hrozny Correspondence is included here. Correspondence from Ankara, specifically, from Tahsin Özgüç.

Folder 028: Kulsepe Phil: This folder contains 21 pages of handwritten transliterations.

Folder 029: B.L. Grammatical + Misc. Notes: This folder contains 21 pages of notes on 4 x 6 notebook paper. Old Assyrian transliterations. These are all published.

Box 003: Miscellaneous Documents: This box contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and transliterations.

Folder 001: Handwritten Notes: This folder contains six partial legal pads containing handwritten manuscripts with notes. First page headed "Beilager und Eheschliessung [...]" Portfolio titled "BL-MS Beilager." These note pads are referred to as "Landberger Yellow Pages" by scholars. These are notes to his own articles.

Folder 002: Handwritten Notes: This folder contains handwritten notes in variety of sizes and types of paper. The folder is labeled "Landsberger-Amorites."

Folder 003: Handwritten Notes: This folder contains handwritten notes in a variety of sizes and types of paper. First page headed "Jo elu 6-8." Folder labeled "Alch. prec. 17 [?]." These are notes to CAD articles before their publication.

Folder 004: Handwritten Notes: This folder contains handwritten notes labeled "Varia [with other difficult to decipher notes]." There are a variety of handwritten and typewritten notes. First page headed "PSDA 1914." These are answers and questions written back and forth between Geertz.

Folder 005: Handwritten Notes: This folder is labeled "Stones/Varia/1) Hh16 notes/ 2) abnu sekensu and other misc. stone texts." Hand written notes in a variety of sizes and on a variety of types of paper. These are stone lists.

Folder 006: Handwritten and Typescript Manuscripts and Notes: This folder contains three sets of handwritten and typewritten manuscripts and notes, some photocopied. The first page reads "Ukkurtu [?] von B. Landsberger." Also there is a "On Her Majesty's Service" Envelope. There is some correspondence.

Folder 007: Handwritten Notes and Transliterations: This folder contains several sets of handwritten notes and transliterations. First page headed "Har.ra=hubullu Tablet XVI." Folder labeled "Hh16 final texts, commentary. Retyped and proofread." This folder does not contain typed sheets.

Folder 008: Notes and Letters with Texts and Collations: This folder contains a collection of notes and correspondence. This is all related to British Museum materials.

Guide to the Papers of Benno Landsberger ©18-Sep-2020 Oriental Institute Page 5 of 6 Folder 009: Ehelolf Correspondence: This folder contains correspondence with Mrs. Luise Ehelolf mostly about Berlin Tablets and photos. Typewritten letters and envelopes. Folder also includes handwritten notes that do not appear to be correspondence, but rather Landsberger's notes to himself.

Folder 010: Handwritten Notes: This folder contains handwritten notes, some original, some photocopied. First page titled "KU urbarra [?] 86.2." Folder also includes envelope with destroyed negatives. These are notes to Old Assyrian Tablets. This includes some of Landsbergers yellow pages with Erica Reiner notes. This one page talks about classifications and spellings.

Folder 011: Handwritten Notes and Transliterations: This folder contains handwritten notes and transliterations on legal paper. First page has the heading "Neobabylonian... Vocabulary." Folder Labeled "BM 383854/1) Neobabylonian. Stone list is only partly deciphered/ 2) BM 38385 /3) Stones in Lugal-e." There are more stone lists in this folder.

Folder 012: Handwritten Notes and Publication: This folder contains handwritten notes beginning with "CAD/ego-probleme." Includes pamphlet "Les enseignements des 'Mille et une nuits'" by Armand Abel from Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. Includes a variety of handwritten notes; first page has the heading "Von Soden: History." Many of these notes are about school texts. There are alphabetical lists of terms, it seems that he is excerpting things from books in which he is interested in. There are some grammatical notes, as well.

Folder 013: Correspondence: This folder contains a one-page letter from the British Museum to Landsberger dated February 1966. The folder is labeled "Colors ad acta."

Folder 014: Handwritten Notes regarding Dictionary Articles: This folder contains handwritten notes, some of which are photocopied. The First page has the heading "The habahr synonym scheme."

Folder 015: Handwritten Notes and Transliterations: This folder contains handwritten notes, typewritten notes, and transliterations. The folder is labeled "CAD/Š."

Folder 016: Handwritten Notes and Typed Manuscript Fragments: This folder contains handwritten notes, typewritten notes, and manuscript fragments. The first page has the heading "Immanis." There are words that are listed here that were not put in the Assyrian Dicitionary. These CAD/Ḫ.

Box 004: Papers of Benno Landsberger: This box contains miscellaneous notes and corrspondence.

VII. Bibliography

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