Books by Maynard Maidman
Writings from the Ancient World , 2010
This volume owes a good deal to the wisdom, knowledge, and labor of a number of individuals. The ... more This volume owes a good deal to the wisdom, knowledge, and labor of a number of individuals. The comments, criticisms, and comments of colleagues have resulted in a better work than it would have been otherwise. So my thanks go to Giovanna Biga, israel Eph'al, Jeanette Fincke, Brigitte Lion, Lucio Milano, David i. owen, Gernot Wilhelm, and Carlo zaccagnini. For help with matters of style, structure, and writing in general, i am grateful to Daniel Y. Maidman, Madeline Noveck, and my mother, Lena Strauss. My student, richard Aronson, typed many of the transliterations, a task accomplished with cheerfulness and intelligence. i also thank Theodore Lewis, general editor of Writings from the Ancient World, for his constant moral support and seemingly endless patience. only in these ways did he ever pressure me. Billie Jean Collins bore the brunt of daily confrontation with a technically recalcitrant manuscript. i thank her heartily. Ann K. Guinan, my editor, contributed in all the above areas, save the typing. Her sagacity, humor, and friendship are dear to me. For the errors remaining in the volume i claim credit for myself. i dedicate this book to Janice P. Warren, my helpmate, whose love and encouragement have, in a myriad ways, made the writing of this book, and much else besides, a true joy.
Papers by Maynard Maidman
Akkadica, 2023
A catalogue of the Nuzi tablets housed in the British Museum
Jornal of the American Oriental Society, 2022
Kaskal, 2021
This article revisits a tablet first published and edited by Brigitte Lion (2010). This unique Nu... more This article revisits a tablet first published and edited by Brigitte Lion (2010). This unique Nuzi text describes the gates, walls, and towers of urban Nuzi in their various states of disrepair. A new transliteration and translation are offered, as well as interpretations of various details given in the text. A possible function of this bureaucratic document is also proposed.
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2020
have, in The Tablets from the Temple Precinct at Nuzi, joined forces to edit the texts of the six... more have, in The Tablets from the Temple Precinct at Nuzi, joined forces to edit the texts of the sixty-nine Nuzi texts found in temples (Lion) and to publish and edit their 282 seal impressions (Stein). This masterful collaboration excels in many areas, including in-depth prosopographical analysis and thorough integration of the local seal practice into the orbit of textual analysis. This volume sets a standard of text edition and analysis that dwarfs the achievements of the students of Nuzi from the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and even since. Nevertheless, the raison d'être of this heterogeneous group of texts in the context of their storage in temples remains enigmatic. The volume under review contains analyses and editions of the texts of sixty-nine tablets (as well as seven other, related texts) originating in the major temple precinct of Nuzi. In addition , publication and edition of the seal impressions contained on these sixty-nine artifacts are presented. This sub-corpus is anomalous and, thus, especially important among the Nuzi documents: the heterogeneity of the documents is unique among Nuzi tablet collections. These documents have never before been extensively studied and analyzed as a group. 1 And so this volume is very welcome indeed. The book is divided into two major sections. Brigitte Lion treats the text corpus as a whole and edits the tablets, giving transliterations, translations, and commentary (pp. 5-223; in French). In the second main section (pp. 225-358; in English), Diana Stein analyzes, describes, and presents drawings and some photographs of the tablets' 282 seal impressions from a variety of perspectives: archaeological, functional, and so on. A formal edition of the impressions follows. These two sections are followed by indices: personal names, geographic names, Akkadian terms, seal impressions, and personal names of seal users. The volume concludes with a list of abbreviations, a bibliography, and plates, mostly of plans and of photographs of seal impressions. This work, the edition of texts integrated with the edition of the texts' seal impressions, is an unqualified success and constitutes one of the work's major values (another is the detailing of these texts' assorted peculiarities). The collaboration of Lion and Stein is close and fruitful, extending a scholarly partnership that had already demonstrated its substantial worth in an earlier such exercise (Lion and Stein 2001). Lion's editions are reliable, her commentary sober and appropriately cautious. Stein's editions are equally careful and thorough. Her drawings of the impressions are elegant and seemingly precise. In this, she continues her sterling publication and analyses of the Nuzi seals, whose parade example must be the majestic Seal Impressions from the Šilwa-tešup archive (Stein 1993a and b). Lion's part of the book begins with a general description of the two temples in which tablets were found, those of Šawuška/Ištar (mostly rooms G 29, 73) and Tešup/Adad (room This is a review article of The Tablets from the Temple Precinct at Nuzi. By Brigitte lion and diana stein.
CDLB 2014:2 (archival version)
N. A.B.U 2013/4 (décembre) [pp. 146-147] 86) JEN 525/670 Once Again -The Nuzi documents JEN 525 a... more N. A.B.U 2013/4 (décembre) [pp. 146-147] 86) JEN 525/670 Once Again -The Nuzi documents JEN 525 and 670 are virtually duplicate texts cataloguing losses suffered by Arrapḫans at the hands of Assyrians in an attack on western Arrapḫa from Assyrian territory. These twin documents constitute a crux for the understanding of the beginning of Nuzi's demise and of the early stages of Assyria's emergence as a great power in the Amarna Age (MAIDMAN 2008: passim; 2010: 16-17, 39; 2011a: 211; 2011b: 78-83). Thus, the contents of JEN 525/670 are clear and their historical importance equally so.
The [Wiley] Encyclopedia of Ancient History, pp. 4843-4844, 2013
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