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Originally in Chapter 1, this was cited as “G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing, From Pictograph to Alphabet (3rd ed., London: 1976).” The year and title punctuation were different from what we found, and there was no link. Can you help us verify the citation?
Chapter 1’s citation of this originally was as follows, with no link:
G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing, From Pictograph to Alphabet (3rd ed., London: 1976).
However, we suspected this might instead be intended as we updated it to in Chapter 1 and in
Chapter 4:
G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
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related query in Chapter 4:
Originally in Chapter 4, this was written as “Driver 1976: 179”: the full citation was missing, and both the year and page numbers were different from what we found: G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
Can you help us to confirm the relevant part discussed here is on pages 157–158 of the text that we cite? It may be a different edition, or possibly the wrong text.
From our research, the author of this text, G.R. Driver, died in 1975, meaning that the original “1976” may have been either a posthumous edition we could not find that may have different page numbers or a typo. What do you think?
Dead Source Link
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The source link may not be functional. Can you find another link to this source that loads more quickly?
This affects the
Chapter 2 Bibliography, the footnote citing this work in
Chapter 2, the
Chapter 3 Bibliography, and the book
Bibliography chapter.
See also
this query on Chapter 3.
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This is a guess as to what earlier was called “Neubebauer 1969” [sic]. Can you help us verify that the cited work was the text meant?
This affects the Chapter 2 Bibliography, the footnote citing this work in Chapter 2, and the book Bibliography chapter.
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The source link may not be functional. Can you find another link to this source that loads more quickly?
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Hans J. Nissen, Mesopotamia Before 5000 Years (Rome: 1988b).
Can you help us verify the year in this citation? It might be 1987 rather than a second 1988 date in Chapter 3’s Bibliography and Chapter 4’s Bibliography per a web search, but we’re not sure.
See
the same query in Chapter 4.
See also
this query affecting
Chapter 3’s Bibliography,
Chapter 4’s Bibliography, the book
Bibliography chapter for Chapter 3, and the book
Bibliography chapter for Chapter 4.
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Originally in this
Chapter 3 footnote, this was written as “(Snodgrass 1990:–)”; we assumed the source meant was the text that we wrote in here that was cited in
Chapter 11’s Bibliography, but a page number/page numbers was/were still missing. Can you help us confirm that this is the correct Snodgrass text cited here, and also let us know what page number(s) is/are missing for this particular footnote’s context?
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Arthur Ungnad, “Die platonische Zahl,” Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Aegypt. Gesellschaft, 19__ (1914?)
Can you help us verify the year?
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Karl Veenhof, “Babylonian Expressions for ‘Over/at a Distance of…,’” JEOL, Vol. 27 (1981–1982), pp. 65–75.
What does JEOL stand for?
And is part of the article title missing? If so, what is missing?
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Anton Deimel, Schultexte Aus Fara (Leipzig: 1923)
This citation was a guess. Can a German-speaker please confirm this is the right citation? No full citation was provided.
See also:
this more specific illustration-related query about Deimel.
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Originally in Chapter 4, this was written as “Driver 1976: 179”: the full citation was missing, and both the year and page numbers were different from what we found: G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
Can you help us to confirm the relevant part discussed here is on pages 157–158 of the text that we cite? It may be a different edition, or possibly the wrong text.
From our research, the author of this text,
G.R. Driver, died in 1975, meaning that the original “1976” may have been either a posthumous edition we could not find that may have different page numbers or a typo. What do you think?
See also in case it is affected:
this query in Chapter 1, describing how
Chapter 1’s citation of this originally was as follows, with no link:
G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing, From Pictograph to Alphabet (3rd ed., London: 1976).
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the Akkadian sign for water,
mem, occupying the first position in the cuneiform
syllabary described by
Zimmern[2] (1896; see also
Driver[3] 1948: pp. 157–158), subsequently evolved into the Canaanite (and hence Greek and modern) letter m, originally
μῦ, recalling the wavy zigzag line traditionally used to denote water.
We guessed at the full citation for “Zimmern (1896)”:
- We guessed that the author’s full name is Heinrich Zimmern.
- We guessed that this was the 1896 publication that Hudson intended to cite: H. Zimmern, “Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Alphabets,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 50 (1896), pp. 667–670.
Can a German-speaker please confirm this is the right citation for this point or correct it if not?
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This citation is a guess; can you verify it’s the right one?
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Chapter 5 of Book 8 Aristotle emphasized that the sort of music that is only “for our amusement and refreshment, like taking a nap or having a drink,” is not of serious importance, although it may be
“pleasant and help us forget our worries, as Euripides says” (
Bacchae[4] 381).
Can someone help identify the Euripides quotation with an original source better than ours? We found and cited
this one from
here but there may be something better/more definitive; the quotations are pretty different.
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The material of the work of the title The Myth of Invariance by Ernest G. McClain appears to have been removed from the Internet Archive sometime between 2025 and 2026. Please help us find a different publicly accessible source link to the cited work, if one is available.
If you determine it is not in the public domain nor available under
Creative Commons 4.0, please let us know.
Please note that another title by the same author still has a functioning link and needs no correction: Ernest G. McClain,
The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself (Maine: 1978). Citations to
The Pythagorean Plato (in-text, footnotes, and in the Bibliography) still function.
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Werner Jaeger,
Paideia (Oxford:
1936).
Should this year be 1945, 1947, or 1936? See
this source link.
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Libor Matous, “Zu den Ausdrucken fur ‘Zugaben’ in den vorsargonischen Grundstuck-kaufurkunden,” Archiv Orientalni, Vol. 22 (1954), pp. 434–443.
Can someone verify the spelling of the name and accuracy of this citation?
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Jean Puhvel, “Hittite Athletics as Prefigurations of Ancient Greek Games,” in Wendy J. Raschke (ed.), The Archaeology of the Olympics (Madison, Wisconsin: 1988), pp. 26–31.
Can you verify the spelling of the author’s name as Jean Puhvel? It is possible Jaan Puhvel was meant (see Chapter 9’s Bibliography, Chapter 12’s Bibliography and footnotes, and the book’s Bibliography chapter for sections for Chapter 9 and Chapter 12: Jaan Puhvel, “The Origins of Greek Kosmos and Latin Mundus,” American Journal of Philology, Vol. 97 [1976], pp. 154–167), but it’s also possible they are two different people.
See the same query in Chapter 11 here.
See related query in
Chapter 9 and Chapter 12 over Jaan Puhvel here.
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Bibliography
If you have additional texts that should be considered for
Chapter 7’s Bibliography (now or after revisions expanding this stub chapter), please suggest them.
Text Access
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Example 1 in Chapter 7 Bibliography:
Pavel Oliva, Sparta and Her Social Problems (1971).
Example 2 in Chapter 7 General Queries Page Notes (Stub Page Note Number 2):
Pavel Oliva,
Sparta and Her Social Problems (1971), pp. 88f. The
gerousia consisted of 28 members (
gerontes), elected by the citizens’ assembly (
apella). This is a lunar number, and Thucydides (
I.67) said that the
gerousia met each lunar month at the full moon. Perhaps there was a daily rotation of the leaders during this period. The council amounted to 30 with the two kings.
Can you help us get access to this text so we can figure out what if anything in the stub Chapter 7 body should be attributed to it? And can you check this citation detail and points made in the Chapter 7 General Queries page notes in the query Stub Page Note Number 2?
Missing Bibliographic Details
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8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
No sources are currently listed for the stub Chapter 8. Let us know if this changes.
See also Chapter 8’s General Queries page, specifically this query, for discourse about the chapter’s Bibliography.
Text Access
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Pierre Amiet, Culte et Mythologie (Paris: 1951).
We were unsuccessful at trying to find this text. Can you help to find it, and/or verify its details?
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A.L. Frothingham, “Ancient Orientation Unveiled,” American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 21 (1917), pp. 55–76, 313–332, 420–448.
Could you help us confirm this essay spans these page ranges (pp. 55–76, 313–332) as well? We were only able to verify pp. 420–448.
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W.R. Lethaby, Architecture, Mysticism and Myth (London: 1892), repr. 1974, Architectural Press, Oxford.
W.R. Lethaby, Architecture, Nature and Magic (London: 1956).
Can you verify this title (
Architecture, Nature and Magic) and details? We could not find evidence of this anywhere online. It may be that it was the old title for the work a line above it (
Architecture, Mysticism and Myth)? See
at this source: “W.R. Lethaby’s
Architecture, Nature, and Magic. The book was originally published in 1892 under the name
Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth.”
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The spelling of the author’s first name seems correct here (in
Chapter 9’s Bibliography,
Chapter 12’s Bibliography and footnotes, and the book’s
Bibliography chapter for sections for
Chapter 9 and
Chapter 12) based on the
source link here, but let us know if the source link is incorrect. See also
a related query about Chapter 6 for Jean Puhvel rather than Jaan Puhvel here, the
same query in Chapter 11 here, and
another query in Chapter 12 here.
For Bibliography Consideration
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Consider adding these two texts from the Chapter 10 General Queries page, particularly the query on the Mini-Bibliography for Stub Paragraphs on Etymology, to the Chapter 10 Bibliography and book Bibliography chapter, if they are worked into the Chapter 10 body or determined to have been used in current Chapter 10 body text.
Interrelated Query
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These two bibliographic items are part of this Chapter 10 query about astronomy and Egyptian sed festivals and not part of the Chapter 10 body currently. Let us know if either needs to be removed if none of their contents relate to Chapter 10’s body.
Missing Bibliographic Details
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There’s a missing 1953 item by this author cited in
Chapter 10 that we need help identifying and adding to the
Chapter 10 Bibliography and
book Bibliography chapter (either in addition to or instead of the 1963 citation; let us know which you think is the case). We thought perhaps 1953 in the Chapter 10 body could have been a typo for 1963, but the page numbers don’t align (page 874 is cited, but the page range in 1953 is 536–541), so it may indeed be a different text.
See also these related queries from the Chapter 10 body:
- Query 1: Quotation: “establish equity (nig.sisa) and justice (nig.gina) in the land.”
- Query 2: In-text citation: Ephraim Speiser[6] (1953: p. 874)
- Query 3: Quotation: “kittum” represented “that which is firm, established, true”
- Query 4: Quotation: “The two terms are mutually complementary. … An immutable aspect of cosmic order, kittum is semantically the same as Biblical ‘emet (from *’amint), the original force of which still survives in the common loanword ‘Amen.’ The independent function of a ruler, whether divine or human, is confined to misharum, that is, just and equitable implementation.”
- Query 5: Footnote: Ephraim Speiser[7] (1953: p. 874)
- ↑ G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
- ↑ H. Zimmern, “Zur Frage nach dem Ursprung des Alphabets,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 50 (1896), pp. 667–670.
- ↑ G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
- ↑ Euripides, Bacchae, line 381, from The Tragedies of Euripides, translated by T.A. Buckley, Bacchae (London: 1850).
- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976), p. 197.
- ↑ Ephraim A. Speiser, “Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 6 (December 1963), pp. 536–541.
- ↑ Ephraim A. Speiser, “Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 6 (December 1963), pp. 536–541.
Missing Bibliographic Details
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SARI
What journal does SARI stand for?
Missing Bibliographic Details
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Vo. R.A.I.
What does “Vo. R.A.I.” stand for?
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Jack J. Finkelstein, “Some New Misharum Material and Its Implications,” in Assyriological Studies, No. 16 (1965), pp. 233–246.
Where in the
Chapter 11 body should this be cited?
Omitted Text
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Fritz R. Kraus, Sumerer und Akkader: Ein Problem der Altmesopotamischen Geschichte (Amsterdam: 1970) [Omitted text: (p. 30: as the Akkadians use andurārum, it is “opaque.”)]
Can you help us understand what the omitted text note meant, and make any changes to the Bibliography or
Chapter 11 if necessary? The omitted text was:
(p. 30: as the Akkadians use andurārum, it is “opaque.”)
Missing Bibliographic Details
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“W.G. Lambert” had
two citations in the
Chapter 11 body, but there was no explicit allusion to
Maurice Lambert. Can you help us identify at least two missing text citations in the Bibliography for W.G. Lambert?
Missing Bibliographic Details
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Originally all that was written here was “Maurice Lambert, Enmetena’s”; is our guess that’s currently in the Bibliography the right one for what was missing?
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N.P. Lemche, “Andurārum and Misharum: Comments on the Problem of Social Edicts and Their Application in the Ancient Near East,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 38 (1979), pp. 11–22.
Can you help us verify that this was in JNES Vol. 38 (1979)? It wasn’t in
this link to that issue.
Missing Bibliographic Details
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Originally all that was written here was “Ephraim Speiser, ”; is our guess that’s currently in the Bibliography the right one for what was missing?
Interrelated Query
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This text is cited in a part of the
Epilogue chapter omitted and moved into the
General Queries page in
this query. We can remove it if you don’t think it was used in the chapter as is for now, or if the other general query was resolved in a way that should result in this being removed from the Bibliography.
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Which of the two Lewy texts was meant? One of these two may be removed from the footnote and
Epilogue chapter Bibliography and book
Bibliography chapter depending on what happens in the body text with the “TABLET” and “Lewy 19__” (see
this query).
