Calendars and festivals in Mesopotamia in the third and second millennia BC /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Shibata, Daisuke, 1973- (Author, Editor), Yamada, Shigeo (Archaeologist) (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
Series:	Studia Chaburensia ; v. 9.
Subjects:	Calendars > Iraq > Congresses. Festivals > Iraq > Congresses. Iraq > Civilization > To 634 > Congresses. Chronology, Assyro-Babylonian > Congresses. Calendars. Chronology, Assyro-Babylonian. Civilization. Festivals. Iraq. To 634 Conference papers and proceedings.

Table of Contents:

The emergence of calendars in the Third Millennium BCE : deities, festivals, seasons, and the cultural construction of time / Walther Sallaberger
Calendars, festivals, and rituals at Mari during the šakkanakku period : from the end of the third to the beginning of the Second Millennium BC / Laurent Colonna d'Istria
Calendars in old Assyrian sources / Cécile Michel
"Nippur calendar" and other calendars in the Old Babylonian Period / Dominique Charpin
The Upper-Mesopotamian, or so-called "Šamšī-Adad calendar" / Nele Ziegler
Calendar and festivals at Mari according to the Royal Archives from the reign of Zimri-Lim / Antoine Jacquet
Calendars, month names and local traditions in Terqa in the Second Millennium BCE / Olivier Rouault
Calendars of the land of Ḫana and the Middle Assyrian land of Māri in the Second Millennium BC / Daisuke Shibata and Shigeo Yamada
The loss of the local calendar at Emar / Daniel E. Fleming
The zukru cycle in the light of the planting rites in Emar / Masamichi Yamada.