[Booknews] Weekly sale, May 29-June 6, 2007: Celebrate 150 years of Akkadian

[James Spinti]

BookNews from Eisenbrauns

Akkadian was officially accepted as deciphered by the Royal 
Asiatic Society on this date 150 years ago. Some accept an 
alternative date of June 6; no matter, our sale encompasses 
both dates. Take advantage of savings from 20-50% on Akkadian 
related books from Eisenbrauns in celebration of this event. 
For more details on the decipherment, go to the IAA page:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/iaa/RAScuco.html

As always, all sales on this web sale are final; no returns 
will be permitted.  Offer is good only on orders placed at 
www.eisenbrauns.com through June 6, 2007. Sorry, no wholesale 
orders at these prices.

To go directly to the weekly sale, click on this link:
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~~~NEWSLIST
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"The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur"
by Piotr Michalowski
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 1
Eisenbrauns, 1989. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464439
List Price: $46.50 Your Price: $27.90

"Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf!: Mesopotamische Baby-Beschworungen 
und -Rituale"
by W. Farber
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 2
Eisenbrauns, 1989. Cloth. German.
ISBN: 0931464447
List Price: $47.50 Your Price: $23.75

"Adoption in Old Babylonian Nippur and the Archive of 
Mannum-mesu-lissur"
by Elizabeth C. Stone and David I. Owen
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 3
Eisenbrauns, 1991. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464536
List Price: $49.50 Your Price: $24.75

"Third-Millennium Legal and Administrative Texts 
in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad"
by Piotr Steinkeller and J. N. Postgate
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 4
Eisenbrauns, 1992. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464609
List Price: $46.50 Your Price: $23.25

"House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia"
by Andrew R. George
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 5
Eisenbrauns, 1993. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464803
List Price: $39.50 Your Price: $23.70

"Textes Culinaires Mesopotamiens"
by Jean Bottero
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 6
Eisenbrauns, 1995. Cloth. French.
ISBN: 0931464927
List Price: $52.50 Your Price: $31.50

"Legends of the Kings of Akkade: The Texts"
by Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 7
Eisenbrauns, 1997. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464854
List Price: $64.50 Your Price: $38.70

"Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography"
by Wayne Horowitz
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 8
Eisenbrauns, 1998. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464994
List Price: $62.50 Your Price: $37.50

"The Writing on the Wall: The Architectural Context of 
Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions"
by John Malcolm Russell
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 9
Eisenbrauns, 1999. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464951
List Price: $59.50 Your Price: $35.70

"Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the 
Power of Life and Death"
by Shlomo Izre'el
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 10
Eisenbrauns, 2001. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575060485
List Price: $42.50 Your Price: $25.50 

"Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals 
from the Diviner's Archive"
by Daniel E. Fleming
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 11
Eisenbrauns, 2000. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575060442
List Price: $57.50 Your Price: $34.50

"Letters to the King of Mari: A New Translation, 
with Historical Introduction, Notes, and Commentary"
by Wolfgang Heimpel
Mesopotamian Civilizations - MC 12
Eisenbrauns, 2003. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575060809
List Price: $74.50 Your Price: $44.70

"Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles"
by A. K. Grayson
Eisenbrauns, 2000. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575060493
List Price: $79.50 Your Price: $55.65

"Nineveh: Papers of the XLIXe Rencontre Assyriologique 
Internationale, London 7-11 July 2003"
Edited by Dominique Collon and Andrew George
Iraq
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2005. Paper. 
English, French, and German.
ISBN: 090347218X
List Price: $140.00 Your Price: $105.00

"Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th 
Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001"
Edited by Simo Parpola and R. M. Whiting
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - NATCP, 2002. Paper. 
English, German, and French.
ISBN: 9514590546
List Price: $117.50 Your Price: $94.00

"A Grammar of Akkadian"
by John Huehnergard
Harvard Semitic Studies - HSS 45
Harvard Semitic Museum / Eisenbrauns, 2005. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575069229
List Price: $49.95 Your Price: $34.97

"Key to A Grammar of Akkadian"
by John Huehnergard
Harvard Semitic Studies - HSS 46
Harvard Semitic Museum / Eisenbrauns, 2005. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 1575069245
List Price: $27.95 Your Price: $19.57

"Babylonian Wisdom Literature"
by W. G. Lambert
Eisenbrauns, 1996. Cloth. English.
ISBN: 0931464943
List Price: $75.00 Your Price: $45.00