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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia: Bodies of Knowledge | |
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| Communities of Language, Text, and Script in Late Bronze Age Syria | |
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| Goals, Scope, and Structure of this Book | |
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| Text and Archaeology: Practitioners and Practice, Diviners and Divination | |
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| Diviners and Divination: Sources and Method | |
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| Identifying Diviners: Names and Titles | |
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| The Genres of Divination | |
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| Colophons, Education, and Scholarship | |
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| Material Culture of Divination: Objects and Representations | |
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| Text and Archaeology: Context, Artifacts, Archives, and Libraries | |
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| Corpus and Method | |
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| General Considerations: Terminology and Methodology | |
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| Case Study: 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> in Emar | |
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| Approaching the Tablet Collection from Emar's'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> | |
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| Emar on the Euphrates: Archaeology, History, and Society | |
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| Historical Sketch of Emar in Ancient Sources | |
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| Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Emar and its Archives | |
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| Geography and Environment of the Middle Euphrates | |
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| Late Bronze Age Syria: An Archaeological Overview | |
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| Early Exploration of Eski Meskene (1907-1931) | |
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| French Excavations at Emar (1970-1976) | |
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| Syrian Excavations at Emar (1992-1995) | |
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| German-Syrian Excavations at Emar (1996-2002) | |
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| Summary: Architecture, Artifacts, and Chronology | |
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| Perspectives on Late Bronze Age Emar and its Archives | |
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| 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub>: Morphology of a Tablet Collection | |
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| Discovery and Stratigraphy | |
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| Stratum 5 | |
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| Stratum 4 | |
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| Stratum 3bis | |
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| Stratum 3 | |
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| Stratum 2 | |
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| Stratum 1 | |
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| Collapse | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Artifacts | |
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| Epigraphic Finds | |
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| Archaeological Provenience of the Tablet Collection: Excavation Units | |
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| Summary: Excavation Units and Architecture | |
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| Interpreting the 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> Tablet Collection | |
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| Genres Found in the Tablet Collection | |
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| Administrative Records (Appendix B.1) | |
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| Legal Documents (Appendix B.2) | |
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| Letters (Appendix B.3) | |
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| Public Rituals (Appendix B.4) | |
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| Lexical Texts (Appendix B.5) | |
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| Divinatory Texts (Appendix B.6) | |
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| Incantations and Rituals (Appendix B.7) | |
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| Literary Texts (Appendix B.8) | |
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| Uncertain Texts and Fragments (Appendix B.9) | |
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| Archive or Archives?: Dossiers Present in the Tablet Collection | |
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| Diviners' Archive and Library | |
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| Tides, Names, and the Archaeological Provenience of Each Dossier | |
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| Royal Archive? | |
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| Temple Archive? | |
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| Isolated Dossiers | |
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| Elements of the Diviners' Tablet Collection | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Architecture and Assemblage of 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> | |
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| Temple, Scriptorium, Public Storage, or House? | |
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| The 'Temple M<sub>1</sub>' Tablet Collection: Formation, Size, Composition, and Distribution | |
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| Perspectives on the Formation and Deposition of Cuneiform Tablet Collections | |
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| 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> Archive: Size, Composition, Distribution | |
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| Perspectives on Archaelogical Provenience and the 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> Tablet Collection | |
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| Divination in Emar: Theory and Practice, Tradition and Transmission | |
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| Practice and Theory of Divination in Emar | |
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| Tradition and Transmission | |
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| The Diviners of Emar and their Script Community | |
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| Appendices: Catalogue raisonn� of the Excavated Tablets from Emar | |
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| Key to the Appendices | |
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| Excavated Tablets and Fragments by Find-spot | |
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| Area A | |
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| Area C | |
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| Area E | |
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| German-Syrian Excavations | |
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| Area M | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> R | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> (former R) | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I NW | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I NE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I SE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I SW | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I SW-SE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M I SW-II NW | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M II NE? | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M III NE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M III SE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M III NE-III SE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M IV SW (surface clearing) | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> M IV NW | |
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| M<sub>1</sub> (clearing) | |
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| M<sub>1</sub>-NE | |
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| M<sub>1</sub>-surface | |
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| M<sub>1</sub>-unclear | |
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| 'Temple' M<sub>2</sub> | |
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| Area N | |
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| Area P | |
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| Area R | |
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| Area T | |
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| Area V | |
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| V I SE | |
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| V I SW | |
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| Surface | |
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| Uncertain | |
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| Excavated Tablets and Fragments by Genre | |
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| Practical Documents | |
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| Administrative Records | |
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| Legal Documents | |
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| Letters | |
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| Local Religious Texts | |
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| Public Rituals | |
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| Scholarly Texts | |
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| Lexical Texts | |
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| Divinatory Texts | |
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| Incantations and Rituals | |
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| Literary Texts | |
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| Uncertain Texts | |
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| Uncertain Texts and Fragments | |
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| Colophons | |
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| Diviners as Scribes | |
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| Colophons-Unknown Scribes | |
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| Paleographic Colophons | |
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| Summary of Epigraphic Data from Emar and 'Temple' M<sub>1</sub> | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Emar Fragments: New Identifications | |
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| Concordance and Index of Excavated Emar Texts by Publication Number | |
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| Objects Excavated in Emar | |
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| Looted Tablets from Emar and the Middle Euphrates | |
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| Concordance and Index of Excavated Emar Texts by Excavation Number | |
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| Miscellaneous Ancient Texts Discussed | |
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| Words Discussed | |
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| Proper Nouns Discussed | |
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| Subjects | |