Pool the resources [running list]

[xuchilpaba]

I found a site by a scholar who is against Sitchin and works to debunk him on his site:
www.sitchiniswrong.com/

[madness]

Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer
Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 141

www.sendspace.com/file/ajub6e

[xuchilpaba]

Yay thanks for this.

[madness]

JoAnn Scurlock
Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Magic and Divination 3

english.grimoar.cz/?Loc=book&Lng=2&Back=aut&UID=1662

[us4-he2-gal2]

Thanks very much for this Madness - nice find! As a look at availble distriibutors will confirm, this book comes with a preposterous price tag making it all but unattainable by normal means. I continue to admire Scurlocks inquires for the sheer novelty of the subject matter.

[madness]

In the ziggurat thread I referred to an article co-authored by scholar Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs. This is his web page:

www.mythopedia.info/
www.mythopedia.info/biblio.html

Some of the articles in his bibliography are downloadable.

I'm in no position to say if plasma cosmology is more correct than orthodox astrophysics, but Sluijs certainly thinks as much. He explains mythology in terms of plasma science, see his articles "The World Axis as an Atmospheric Phenomenon" (downloadable) or "The Ourobóros as an Auroral Phenomenon" where plasma display would create a pattern resembling a religious image.

[madness]

I have a backup copy of the entire ETCSL website, but no where to put it.

Can't attach here since it is 3.5mb, over the max size limit. Who wants to upload it for me

[us4-he2-gal2]

Nice! This could someday be a life saver - where would we be if ETCSL went down 0_0 Well, we could back it up on enenuru.net maybe? What kind of file size are we talking here?

[alvean]

faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/okeanos.html

[adapa]

I have photocopies of some rare, out-of -print books, mostly sumerian literature. If anyone is interested, I would be willing to scan some texts, parts of chapters, etc. Here is what I got:

Ake Sjoberg, Der Mond-gott Nanna-Suen.
Ake Sjoberg and Bergmann, Sumerian Temple Hymns (TCL 3)
Lambert and Millard, Atrahasis.
Civil HKL 4. Civil's unpublished list of Sumerian Literature.
Civil, MSL SS1. the sag tablet.
al-Fouadi, Enki's Journey to Nippur.
Litke, An=Anum.
Kramer and Gadd, UET 6/1, UET 6/2, literary texts from Ur.
Kramer and Shaffer, UET 6/3 (unpublished texts from Ur.)
Thureau-Dangin, le cylindres de Goudea. (TCS 8)
Price, gudea.
Romer, bilgamesh and Akka.
van Dijk, Lugale.
van Dijk, Texts in the Baghdad Museum (TIM 9).
Sommerfeld, der Aufstiegs Marduks.
Farber-flugge. Inanna und Enki.
Cooper, Return of Ninurta,
Tinney, Nippur Lament.
Gelb, Morphology of Akkadian.
margaret Green, Uruk signlist.
Kramer, Texts in the Istanbul Museum (ISET 2).
Kramer, Sumerian Literary texts from Nippur (TUM NF 3/1).
Kramer, Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur (SLTNi).
Kramer and Gurney, Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean Museum (OECT 5).
Genouillac, Religious Texts in the Louvre (TRS 1 & 2).
Deimel, Sumerische Lexikon, vol. 3 & 4.
Kinnier-Wilson, Legend of Etana.
Figula, CT 42 (Sumerian literary texts)

[muska]

Thank you very much for your kind offer, Adapa! If I know German in extent allow to read scholarly books...Regarding Nanna - maybe somebody have a copy of J. Klein s paper Genealogy of Nanna-Suen and its historical background (Recontre Assyrioloque Internationale, 45, Vol.1. Historiography in the Cuneiform world. Cambridge, 2001, P.279-302)?

[sheshki]

Hey Adapa,

thanks for your offer. Can you tell me what "van Dijk, Lugale." is about? And is "Ake Sjoberg, Der Mond-gott Nanna-Suen." in german?

[madness]

The last remaining volume of CAD - U/W - is finally available for download:

oi.uchicago.edu/news/
oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cad/

[us4-he2-gal2]

Nice! I love the Oriental Institute! Thanks Madness

[sheshki]

An interesting new book published on Ugarit. Its on my WANT list.



The Ugarit-Verlag would like to announce the publication of

Xianhua Wang: The Metamorphosis of Enlil in Early Mesopotamia
= Alter Orient und Altes Testament 385
Münster 2011
xx + 297 pp.
ISBN 978-3-86835-052-4
64,- EUR
www.ugarit-verlag.de/aoat-385.htm

Xianhua Wang has written a history of the Mesopotamian deity Enlil as
it was before and during the time of Narām-Sîn. In handling primary
sources such as personal names and geographical names, offering lists,
royal inscriptions, year formulae, and cultic or mythic texts, the
result of the work as presented here is thus a study on the
attestations of the deity and of the central question how Enlil was
relevant to the early Mesopotamian world. Special attention is paid to
the history of the names of Enlil and his city, Nippur. The fusing of
regional cultural traditions concerning Enlil became realized in the
deity being the patron of nam-lugal-kalam-ma, “kingship of the Land”,
at the rise of the Sargonids. The idea of Enlil as the patron deity of
nam-lugal-kalam-ma was perhaps the innovation of Lugalzagesi who was
defeated by Sargon. It seems the Sargonids had also their own
interpretation of Enlil the patron of nam-lugal-kalam-ma. But when the
Sargonids succeeded in their military conquests even beyond the Land,
kalam, so as to create a large territorial state, the Babylonian
nam-lugal-kalam-ma became insufficient and finally king Narām-Sîn was
deified alive to accommodate the new situation. The deified king as
the highest authority in his kingdom domesticcated Enlil by his cultic
administration. The characteristics of Enlil as the one who grants
ruling power remained in theory and he was still taken care of in a
luxurious style but importantly the ideological system is no longer
evolving around him and the focus of royal power is now the deified
human king.

Introduction to the Enlil Project
0.1 Philological Studies of Enlil and its Name
0.2 Diachronic Presentations of Enlil
0.3 Enlil in Historical Perception

Part I EN.KID in the Archaic Texts
1.1 EN.KID in Uruk III Sources
1.2 EN.KID in Ur SIS IV-VIII Sealings
1.3 The Pronunciation of ENa+KIDa in the Archaic Texts

Part II Enlil in the Fāra Period
2.1 Enlil in Fāra Period Administrative Texts
2.2 Enlil in the Earliest Royal Inscriptions
2.3 Enlil in Fāra Period Literary Texts

Part III Enlil in the Pre-Sargonic Period
3.1 Enlil in Pre-Sargonic Administrative Texts
3.2 Enlil in Pre-Sargonic Royal Inscriptions
3.3 The Barton Cylinder

Part IV Enlil in the Time of Narām-Sîn and After
4.1 Enlil in Sargonic Administrative Texts
4.2 Enlil in Sargonic Royal Inscriptions
4.3 ki-en-gi ki-uri in the “Enḫeduanna” Temple Hymn

Part V The Metamorphosis of Enlil
5.1 EN+KID = NIBRU in the Late Uruk Period
5.2 NIBRU/ENLIL in the Early Dynastic I Period
5.3 ENLIL in the Early Dynastic IIIa Period
5.4 d.En-líl(É) in the Pre-Sargonic Period
5.5 d.En-líl(É) in the Sargonic Period
5.6 The History of Enlil and the Metamorphosis of Enlil

[enkur]

Interesting synchronicity indeed. Lately I'm also attuned to Enlil. Thanks for this info, Sheshki.

[lilitudemon]

Lost Treasures from Iraq

Oriental Institute of University of Chigaco - Mesopotamia

Oriental Institute's Virtual museum

Madness already linked them, but these are ones I found of specific interest in case anyone missed it.

[muska]

Mesopotamian collection of Beijing World Art Museum
www.worldartmuseum.cn/sjt_special/greatcivilization_en/mesopotamian/index.shtml
Note this cute Anzu image
www.worldartmuseum.cn/content/918/4095_1.shtml

[madness]

Foxvog provides some of his resources for download:

home.comcast.net/~foxvog/

Introduction to Sumerian Grammar
Elementary Sumerian Glossary
Timeline of Mesopotamian History
Chief Figures of the Mesopotamian Pantheon

The Sumerian Abgal and Nanše's Carp Actors (N.A.B.U 2007/4)

[madness]

These are a list of Wiggermann's articles that are downloadable?

vu-nl.academia.edu/FransWiggermann/Papers

Includes Transtigridian Snake Gods, Tišpak, etc.

But you need to sign in to download; apparently Facebook can be used to sign in. I don't have a Failbook account (nor do I want one), so can someone log in and check these.

And if someone does get access to these, please send me "The Four Winds and the Origins of Pazuza"


Also check the Assyriology section of that site, maybe there are other people offering papers for download.

[enkur]

Thanks for this info. I got "The Four Winds and the Origins of Pazuza" but the file is too big (2,12 Mb) to attach it here. Any idea where to upload it?

[madness]

My university just became a member of Bonus+ which means that I get access to a shit ton of books.

bonus.newcastle.edu.au/

May be able to source some things which are difficult to find elsewhere.

[us4-he2-gal2]

Wow "Wollongong" - what a throughly Australian word! I used a library network like that while staying in Nova Scotia a few years ago, can really improve your chances. The search feature seems to bring up books pretty reliably, but seems not to work for searching journals? The big test is if you can now access Acta Sumerologica somehow, the Hiroshima Sumerological journal. Theres only one library in Canada that has it.. once I finally got access to this, I know I can get just about any ANE stuff hm. ;]

[madness]

A new edition of Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography has been released. But for those who already have the 1998 edition, the changes and addenda can be downloaded:

www.eisenbrauns.com/assets/errata/Horowitz-MesCiv8_2ndprt_changes.pdf

[madness]

about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World

On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

[madness]

Jim West has made available an article by the late W G Lambert, "Leviathan in Ancient Art"

zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/leviathan-in-ancient-art-by-w-g-lambert/

[madness]

For some reason this institute of history has uploaded a copy of Leick's recent - and expensive - book "The Babylonian World"

Contains many contributions by assyriologists, covering seven different topics

historiantigua.cl/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TheBabylonianWorldRoutledgeWorlds.pdf


Maybe check their uploads directory, see what else they have

historiantigua.cl/wp-content/uploads/
historiantigua.cl/wp-content/uploads/2011/

[sheshki]

Wow, nice find!

[sheshki]

Aula Orientalis
Contains some Mesopotamia related articles in english (and other crazy languages...)
www.aulaorientalis.org/index.html

[us4-he2-gal2]

Excellent finds! Yes the Leick book is amazing - she seems to have made a request for each specialists to contribute an article corresponding to the personal research they are known for.. for example, asking Abusch to contribute an article on witchcraft. So the book is basically a representation of the 'state of the field' as it were.



As for the periodical Aula Orientalis, this is a great find as well Sheshki! It's awesome that they offer all of their articles for free online. Relatively few English articles but some, certainly worth browsing over - I am pleased about all the comparative Semitics articles as I have a class in that this semester ;]