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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 51 ARTICLES Bryce, TREvorR R. Lukka Revisited BUCKLEY, JORUNN JACOBSEN. The Colophons in The Canonical Prayerbook of the NN hax ashes eccpiceh ace asses o-r bce: Ke ACe oP RCREOE SURES RIM AGA & discs ain awS RC Day, Peccy L. Anat: Ugarit’s “Mistress of the Animals” Esse, Douctas L. The Collared Pithos at Megiddo: Ceramic Distribution and Ethnicity Frye, RICHARD N. Assyria and Syria: Synonyms GaLAn, José M. EA 164 and the God Amun Harrak, Amir. The Ancient Name of Edessa Harrison, Timotuy P. The Early Umayyad Settlement at Tabariyah: A Case of Yet Knoppers, Gary N. “The God in His Temple”: The Phoenician Text from Pyrgi as a Funerary Inscription LanG, MaBEL L. Prexaspes and Usurper Smerdis Levit-Tawit, Davia. The Sasanian Rock Relief at Darabgird—A Re-evaluation. . . NYLAND, ANN. penna- and parh- in the Hittite Horse Training Texts PirarpD, Wayne T. The Shape of the ‘ayin in the Ugaritic Script Puic, Josep. Materials on Averroes’s Circle Suupak, Nivi. A New Source for the Study of the Judiciary and Law of Ancient Egypt: “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant” STEINER, RicHarD C. Northwest Semitic Incantations in an Egyptian Medical Papyrus STOLPER, MatrHew W. Babylonian Evidence for the End of the Reign of Darius I: A Correction TesTEN, Davin. A Trace of Barth’s Preradical *i in Akkadian THOMSEN, Marie-Louise. The Evil Eye in Mesopotamia BOOK REVIEWS AMANOLAHI, SEKANDER and THACKsTON, W. M., trans. The Tales from Luristan: (Matalyé Luriss#): Tales, Fables and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala-Gariva (John R. Perry) ANDREU, GUILLEMETTE and VAN Zeist, WILHEM. Le Cimetiére kermaique d’Ukma Ouest (Bruce Williams) BaraG, D.; Foerster, E.; and Necev, A., eds. Michael Avi-Yonah Memorial Volume (Douglas L. Esse) JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Barnett, R. D. and MENDLESON, C., eds. Tharros: A Catalogue of Material in the British Museum from Phoenician and Other Tombs at Tharros, Sardinia (Samuel Bimson, M. and Freestone, I. C. Early Vitreous Materials (Eleanor Guralnick). . . Binper, LEONARD. Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies (Robert Bianchi) Biocuer, Fevix. Untersuchungen zum Motiv der nackten Frau in der alt- babylonischen Zeit (Elise Auerbach) BoeHMER, MicHAEL RAINER and GiTerBock, Hans Gustav. Glyptik aus dem Stadtgebiet von Bogazkéy: Grabungskampagnen 1931-1939, 1952-1978 (Gary Beckman) BoeHMer, MICHAEL RaINeR and DAMMeR, HEINZ-WERNER. Tell Imliye, Tell Zubeidi, Tell Abbas (Richard L. Zettler) CHARPIN, DOMINIQUE; JOANNES, FRANCIS; LACKENBACHER, SYLVIE; and LAFONT, BERTRAND. Archives épistolaires de Mari. Vol. 1/2 ( Robert D. Biggs) Dammerii, Muyap Saip Basim. The Development of the Architecture of Doors and Gates in Ancient Mesopotamia (Sally Dunham) DeRect, L. J. A Parametric Model for Syntactic Studies of a Textual Corpus, Demonstrated on the Hebrew Deuteronomy 1-30 (Dennis Pardee) Downey, Susan B. Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander through the Parthians (Ann C. Gunter) Duranb, JEAN-Marie. Archives épistolaires de Mari. Vol. 1/1 (Robert D. Biggs) . . GiaArDINA, A.; LIVERANI, M.; and ScarciA, B. La Palestina, storia di una terra: L’Eta cristiana, I’Islam, le questioni attuali (Gésta W. Ahlstré6m7) Gippy, Lisa L. Egyptian Oases: Bahariya, Dakhla, Farafra and Kharga during Pharaonic Times (William J. Murnane) Giveon, RAPHAEL. Scarabs from Recent Excavations in Israel (William A. Ward). . Grosz, KATARZYNA. The Archive of Wullu (Martha A. Morrison) HAaa, Tomas, ed. Nubian Culture Past and Present: Main Papers Presented at the Sixth International Conference for Nubian Studies at Uppsala, 11-16 August 1986 (Bruce Williams) HENDEL, RONALD S. The Epic of the Patriarch: The Jacob Cycle and the Narrative Traditions of Canaan and Israel (Dennis Pardee) HERRMANN, GEORGINA. Ivories from Room 37 Fort Shalmaneser. Fasc. Commentary and Catalogue. Fasc. 2. Plates (Irene J. Winter) Ho_uM, KENNETH G.; HOHLFELDER, ROBERT L.; BULL, ROBERT J.; and RABAN, AVNER. King Herod’s Dream: Caesarea on the Sea (Edgar Krentz) Josui, JaGAT Pati and Parpota, Asko, eds. Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. Vol. 1. Collections in India (Abbas Alizade) Kuoury, Rair Georces. Abd Allah ibn Lahia (97—174/715—790): Juge et grand maitre de l’école égyptienne (Gladys Frantz-Murphy) LEBRUN, R., ed. Hethitica VII (Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.) LeBRuN, R., ed. Hethitica VIII: Acta Anatolica E. Laroche oblata (Harry A. DS is2 KE GARR ee hae oo x eee we dese wine Ren ene pa neeunr es CONTENTS OF VOLUME 51 Leicuty, ERLE; Grayson, A. K.; FINKELSTEIN, J. J.; and WALKER, C. B. F. Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Vols. 6-8. Tablets from Sippar 1-3 (Joachim Oelsner) 143 LemMcHE, NiEcs Peter. Ancient Israel: A New History of Israelite Society (Diana Edelman) 312 Levine, Lee I. and Netzer, Exup. Excavations at Caesarea Maritima 1975, 1976, 1979—Final Report (Edgar Krentz) 220 McCa _t, HENRIETTA. Mesopotamian Myths (Robert D. Biggs) 315 MADELUNG, WILFERD. Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran (Michael Morony) . . 158 Masters, Bruce. The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 (Addul-Karim 297 Maystre, CHARLES ET AL. Tabo I: Statue en bronze d'un roi méroitique, Musée Nationale de Khartoum, Inv. 24705 (Bruce Williams) 300 MitcueLL, T. C. Biblical Archaeology: Documents from the British Museum (Gésta W. Ahlstrém7) 223 Munro, IRmMTRAUT. Untersuchungen zu den Totenbuch-Papyri der 18. Dynastie (Hans Goedicke) 151 MouTAFCcHiEVA, VERA P. Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Abdul-Karim Rafeq) 222 MuscareLLa, O. W. Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (P. R. S. Moorey) 65 Po..ey, Max E. Amos and the Davidic Empire (Diana Edelman) SAGHIEH, Muntana. Byblos in the Third Millennium B.C.: A Reconstruction of the Stratigraphy and a Study of Cultural Connections (Douglas L. Esse) SCHULMAN, ALAN R. Ceremonial Execution and Public Rewards: Some Historical Scenes on New Kingdom Private Stelae (William A. Ward) SIMONSEN, JORGEN B&K. Studies in the Genesis and Early Development of the Caliphal Taxation System (Fred M. Donner) Simpson, WILLIAM KELLy. Papyrus Reisner IV: Personal Accounts of the Early Twelfth Dynasty (Eugene Cruz-Uribe) SPANEL, DonaLp. Through Egyptian Eyes: Egyptian Portraiture (William H. Peck) TALLON, Francoise. Métallurgie susienne I: De la fondation de Suse au XVIII* siécle avant J.C. (1) and (2) (E. Pernicka) TREADGOLD, WarREN. The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (Robert W. Edwards) WATTERSON, BARBARA. Coptic Egypt (Eugene Cruz-Uribe) Books Received