Memorial Volume Wilfred H. van Soldt

This volume contains twenty-four contributions by colleagues, friends, and students of the late Wilfred van Soldt. The articles reflect the depth of his research interests, including, but not limited to Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit, Hittite, Peripheral Akkadian, Archaeology, Kurdistan, Mesopotamian Science, Omens, Astrology, and Astronomy.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of publications Wilfred H. van Soldt
• Kozad M. Ahmed
  Patterns of Immigration and Expansion in Mesopotamia, a Comparative Examination of the Amorite and Later Arab Migrations 
• Wiebke Beyer & Jan Gerrit Dercksen
  An Old Assyrian Letter and its Copies: A Possible Case of Home Schooling in Kanesh
• Rients de Boer
  International Relations between Larsa and Ešnunna under Rim-Sin and Dadusha: the Shamash-magir archive
• Yoram Cohen
  Wilfred van Soldt and the Western Regions of the Cuneiform World. An Appreciation
• Elena Devecchi
  Remarks on the “Archive of the Granary” from Nippur
• Jeanette C. Fincke
  More Solar Omens: EAE 25 (26) and 26 (27) Revisited
• Nils P. Heeßel
  Arachnophilia in Mesopotamia
• Teije de Jong
  When the Sun went down in Ugarit
• N.J.C. Kouwenberg
  The Development of the Oblique Independent Personal Pronouns, in Particular in Middle Assyrian
• Theo J.H. Krispijn
  The Identification of the zami/sammû(m)-instrument
• DLshad Aziz Marf
  In Search of the Holy and Commercial city of Paranzi in Zamua
• Stefan M. Maul
  Schreiberübungen aus mittelassyrischer Zeit
• Diederik J.W. Meijer
  On Sealings on Pottery
• Piotr Michalowski
  First-Humans
• Mathieu Ossendrijver
  Anu-aba-utēr, son of Anu-bēlšunu, astronomer from Uruk
• Susanne Paulus
  Loans and Debt in Kassite Rural Babylonia
• Jacob Jan de Ridder
  The Runaway Slave of Enlil-kidinnī 
• Walter Sommerfeld
  Das Cruciform Monument des Maništušu – ein Werk der Kassitenzeit
• Marten Stol
  The Asa foetida in cuneiform texts
• Klaas Veenhof
  Ten Old Babylonian Texts from Sippar in the British Museum
• Niek Veldhuis
  Middle Babylonian Exercises from Susa
• Willemijn Waal
  It is not a deer. It is… a sheep! Revisiting the meaning of Hittite aliya(n)- 
• Caroline Waerzeggers
  Silent propaganda: Cyrus and the end of the Babylonian tradition of royal inscriptions
• Elyze Zomer
  The Typology and Distribution of Glossenkeile in the Late Bronze Age