oi.uchicago.edu i EXTRACTION & CONTROL oi.uchicago.edu ii Matthew W. Stolper gazing at the colossal bull head (OIM A24065, Persepolis, Achaemenid) in the Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum oi.uchicago.edu iii EXTRACTION & CONTROL STUDIES IN HONOR OF MATTHEW W. STOLPER edited by Michael Kozuh Wouter F. M. Henkelman Charles E. Jones and Christopher Woods Funded by the Generosity of the Yelda Family studies in ancient ORientaL civiLizatiOn • numbeR 68 THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE of the UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO chicagO • IllinOis oi.uchicago.edu iv Library of Congress Control Number: 2013956374 isbn-10: 1-61491-001-4 isbn-13: 978-1-61491-001-5 issn: 0081-7554 The Oriental Institute, Chicago © 2014 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2014. Printed in the United States of America. studies in ancient Oriental civilizations 68 Leslie Schramer and Thomas G. Urban Series Editors’ Acknowledgments Rebecca cain, dennis campbell, and brian Keenan assisted in the production of this volume. Cover Illustration Matthew W. Stolper gazing at the colossal bull head (OIM A24065, Persepolis, Achaemenid) in the Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum Printed by McNaughton & Gunn, Saline, Michigan The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Services — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, ansi z39.48-1984. ∞ oi.uchicago.edu v Table of Contents List of Abbreviations ......................................................................................... vii Matthew W. Stolper Christopher Woods, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Michael Kozuh ....................................... viii bibliography of Publications of matthew W. stolper Charles E. Jones, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago............................................... x 1. Persepolis Fortification Aramaic Tablet Seal 0002 and the Keeping of Horses Annalisa Azzoni, Vanderbilt University, and Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, University of Colorado at Boulder.................... 1 2. An episode in the Reign of the babylonian Pretender nebuchadnezzar iv Paul-Alain Beaulieu, University of Toronto.................................................................... 17 3. Achaemenid Estate(s) Near Pasargadae? Rémy Boucharlat, CNRS – University of Lyon .................................................................. 27 4. Les tablettes de bois du Grand roi (Note sur les communications officielles dans un royaume itinérant) Pierre Briant, Collège de France ............................................................................ 37 5. Royal Women in Elamite Art Elizabeth Carter, University of California, Los Angeles .......................................................... 41 6. Iddin-nabû sēpir ša gardu Walter Farber, University of Chicago ........................................................................ 63 7. The Royal-name seals of darius i Mark B. Garrison, Trinity University ........................................................................ 67 8. De vie à trépas Françoise Grillot-Susini, CNRS – Paris ....................................................................... 105 9. The estates of Šamaš on the Ḫābūr Michael Jursa and Klaus Wagensonner, University of Vienna...................................................... 109 10. Elamite and akkadian inscribed bricks from bard-e Karegar (Khuzistan, iran) Michael Kozuh, Auburn University.......................................................................... 131 11. Reassessing the Reign of Xerxes in the Light of New Evidence Amélie Kuhrt, University College London ..................................................................... 163 12. Cultural Exchange at Kültepe Mogens Trolle Larsen, University of Copenhagen, and Agnete Wisti Lassen, Yale University .............................. 171 13. The curricular context of an akkadian Prayer from Old babylonian ur (uet 6 402) Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University .................................................................... 189 14. Myth, History, Cosmology, and Hydraulics in Achaemenid Iran Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago ........................................................................ 197 15. Biography of a sentence: assurbanipal, nabonidus, and cyrus Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan .................................................................... 203 16. Periodicities and Period Relations in babylonian celestial sciences Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley .......................................................... 211 17. On Persons in the Old babylonian Law collections: the case of mār awīlim in bodily injury Provisions Martha T. Roth, University of Chicago ....................................................................... 219 18. Gilgamesh and the ius primae noctis Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University . 229 19. Cyrus the great, exiles, and Foreign gods: a comparison of assyrian and Persian Policies on subject nations R. J. van der Spek, VU University Amsterdam.................................................................. 233 20. Persians on the euphrates? material culture and identity in two achaemenid burials from hacınebi, southeast turkey Gil J. Stein, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago ......................................................... 265 21. On the Dynasty of Šimaški: Twenty Years (or so) After Piotr Steinkeller, Harvard University ........................................................................ 287 v oi.uchicago.edu vi Table of Contents 22. Some Thoughts on the ustarbaru Jan Tavernier, Université catholique de Louvain................................................................ 297 23. A Statue of Darius in the Temple of Sippar Caroline Waerzeggers, VU University Amsterdam .............................................................. 323 24. Earth, Water, and Friendship with the King: argos and Persia in the mid-fifth century Matthew W. Waters, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ......................................................... 331 25. Freedom and dependency: neo-babylonian manumission documents with Oblation and service Obligation Cornelia Wunsch, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and F. Rachel Magdalene, Leipzig University .... 337 26. From Lower Land to Cappadocia Ilya Yakubovich, University of Chicago ...................................................................... 347 oi.uchicago.edu vii List of Abbreviations a.d. anno domini km kilometer(s) b.c. before Christ lit. literally ca. circa, approximately lo.ed. lower edge cat. no. catalog no. m meter(s) cf. confer, compare n(n). note(s) ch(s). chapter(s) n.p. no publisher cm centimeter(s) NN personal name col(s). column(s) no(s). number(s) coll. collation NS not sealed DN diety name obv. obverse ed(s). editor(s) p(p). page(s) et al. et alii, and others pers. comm. personal communication e.g. exempli gratia, for example pl. plural esp. especially pl(s). plate(s) etc. et cetera, and so forth PN personal name fasc. fascicle rev. reverse fig(s). figure(s) RN royal name f(f). and following sg. singular FN family name trans. translation GN geographical name u.ed. upper edge ha hectare(s) var. variation ibid. ibidem, in the same place vol(s). volume(s) i.e. id est, that is vii oi.uchicago.edu Matthew W. Stolper Christopher Woods, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Michael Kozuh Matthew Wolfgang Stolper was born March 1, 1944, to Wolfgang Friedrich Stolper and Martha Stolper (née Vögeli) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, of Jewish descent but raised Protestant, emigrated to the United States from Germany following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. In the United States he pursued graduate study in economics at Harvard, under the mentorship of the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter, whom he previously encountered while an undergraduate at the University of Bonn. Matt’s mother emigrated from Switzerland in 1938; she married Wolfgang that same year. Wolfgang Stolper’s appointment to the faculty of Swarth- more College in 1941 brought the couple to Pennsylvania. After spending a year in Switzerland, the family moved to Ann Arbor in 1949, when Matt’s father assumed the position of Profes- sor of Economics at the University of Michigan. A committed Protestant, his father had an active interest in Biblical and related Near Eastern history. This was Matt’s first contact with the field to which he would devote his professional career. Matt won a scholarship to attend high school at Cranbrook, a prestigious Michigan preparatory school in Bloomfield Hills. There, he received strong train- ing in the humanities, especially in Latin, history, and writing. Matt particularly enjoyed courses on ancient and medieval history at Cranbrook, which resonated with the church history of his Presbyterian upbringing and gave shape to his historical orientation. Matt graduated in 1961 and matriculated that year at Harvard, where he would major in Architectural Sciences, graduating in 1965. His Junior and Senior years were the most intellectually formative. It was at this time that he took courses with the architec- tural historian Eduard F. Sekler, who sparked his interests and inspired him to pursue further early architecture and ancient his- tory, including courses on Paleolithic archaeology with Hallam L. Movius, and, most notably, Mesopotamian history with Thorkild Jacobsen, who had left