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

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by  Leonhard Sassmannshausen

He Has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning
Cuneiform Monographs
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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
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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
Nisaba.”
PuBLICATIONS OF Å.W. SJÖBeRG
Bibliography of Åke Waldemar Sjöberg 1991–2006, in continuation of
H. Behrens, D. Loding, M.T. Roth, DuMu-e2-DuB-BA-A, Studies in Honor
of Åke W. Sjöberg (OPSNKF 11, Philadelphia: 1989), 593–595.
1. Articles
“The First Pushkin Museum elegy and New Texts,” JAOS 103 (1983)
315–320 [missing in OPSNKF 11].
“Was there a Sumerian version of the Laws of Hammurabi?” in P. Micha-
lowski, P. Steinkeller, e.C. Stone, R. Zettler, Velles Paraules. Ancient Near
Eastern Studies in Honor of Miguel Civil on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth
Birthday, Aula Orientalis 9 (1991) 219–225.
“The Ape from the Mountain who Became the King of Isin,” in M.e. Cohen,
D.C. Snell, D.B. Weisberg, The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies
in Honor of William W. Hallo (1993) 211–220.
“CBS 11319+: An Old Babylonian Schooltext from Nippur,” ZA 83 (1993)
1–21.
“ueT vII, 73: An exercise Tablet enumerating Professions,” in Ö. Tunca,
D. Deheselle, Tablettes et images aux pays de Sumer et d’Akkad. Mélanges
offerts à Monsieur H. Limet (1996) 117–139.
“ueT 7 no. 93. A Lexical Text or a Commentary?” ZA 86 (1996) 220–237.
“The ebla List of Animals Mee 4 no. 116,” WO 27 (1996) 9–24.
“Sumerian Texts and Fragments in the university of Pennsylvania Museum
Related to Rulers of Isin,” in M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, dubsar anta-men.
Studien zur Altorientalistik. Festschrift für Willem Ph. Römer zur Vollen-
dung seines 70. Lebensjahres mit Beiträgen von Freunden, Schülern und
Kollegen (AOAT 253, 1998) 345–378.
“Studies in the emar Sa vocabulary,” ZA 88 (1998) 240–283.
“Notes on Selected entries from the ebla vocabulary eš3-bar-kin5 (II),” in
B. Böck, e. Cancik-Kirschbaum, Th. Richter, Munuscula Mesopotamica.
Festschrift für Johannes Renger (AOAT 267, 1999) 513–552.
“early Dynastic Animal Names. R. Jestin, Tablettes sumériennes de
Šuruppak, no. 46, pl. 183,” in J. Marzahn, H. Neumann, Assyriologica
et Semitica. Festschrift für Joachim Oelsner anläßlich seines 65. Geburts-
tages am 18. Februar 1997 (AOAT 252, 2000) 407–417.