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Authored Books

George , Andrew R. (2009) Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection. Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, 10. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press.

George, Andrew and Sampedro (introd.), José Luis and Crespo (trans.), Fabián Chueca (2004) La epopeya de Gilgamesh. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori. Paperback: Debolsillo, 2008.

George, Andrew (2003) The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

George, Andrew (2000) The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. London: Penguin Classics.

George, Andrew (1999) The Epic of Gilgamesh. A New Translation. London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press.

George , Andrew (1993) House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamian Civilizations, 5. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns.

George , Andrew (1992) Babylonian Topographical Texts. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 40. Leuven: Peeters.

Edited Books

Collon, Dominique and George , Andrew, eds. (2005) Nineveh: Papers of the 49e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, London, 7-11 July 2003. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

George , Andrew and Finkel, Irving L., eds. (2000) Wisdom, Gods and literature : studies in Assyriology in honour of W.G. Lambert. Winona Lake, Ind. (USA): Eisenbrauns.

Black, Jeremy and George , Andrew and Postgate, Nicholas, eds. (1999) A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Santag, 5. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz.

Chapters in Books

George , Andrew (2008) 'A tour of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.' In: Finkel, I. L. and Seymour, M. J., (eds.), Babylon: Myth and Reality. London: British Museum Press, pp. 54-59.

George , Andrew (2008) 'Ancient descriptions: The Babylonian topographical texts.' In: Finkel, I. L. and Seymour, M. J., (eds.), Babylon: Myth and Reality. London: British Museum Press, pp. 60-64.

George , Andrew (2008) 'The truth about Etemenanki, the ziggurat of Babylon.' In: Finkel, I. L. and Seymour, M. J., (eds.), Babylon: Myth and Reality. London: British Museum Press, pp. 126-130.

George , Andrew (2007) 'Babylonian and Assyrian: a history of Akkadian.' In: Postgate, J. N., (ed.), Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, pp. 31-71.

George, Andrew (2007) 'The Epic of Gilgamesh: Thoughts on genre and meaning.' In: Azize, J and Weeks, N, (eds.), Gilgamesh and the World of Assyria. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Mandelbaum House, the University of Sydney, 21-23 July 2004. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement (21). Leuven: Peeters, pp. 37-66.

George , Andrew (2007) 'Gilgamesh and the literary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.' In: Leick, Gwendolyn, (ed.), The Babylonian World. London: Routledge, pp. 447-459.

George , Andrew (2006) 'Babylonian texts from the folios of Sidney Smith, part three: a commentary on a ritual of the month Nisan.' In: Guinan, Ann K. and Ellis, Maria deJ. and Ferrara, A. J. and Freedman, Sally M. and Rutz, Matthew T. and Sassmannshausen, Leonhard and Tinney, Steve and Waters, M. W., (eds.), If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty. Cuneiform Monographs (31). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, pp. 173-185.

George, Andrew (2005) 'In search of the é.dub.ba.a: The ancient Mesopotamian school in literature and reality.' In: Sefati, Y, (ed.), “An Experienced Scribe who Neglects Nothing”. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press (USA), pp. 127-137.

George, Andrew (2005) 'No. 68. Measurements of the interior of the E-sagil temple.' In: Spar, I and Lambert, W G, (eds.), Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art II: Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C. New York: Metropolitan Museum ( USA), Brepols, pp. 266-277.

George, Andrew (2004) 'Royal inscriptions from the folios of Sidney Smith.' In: Frame, G, (ed.), From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A. K. Grayson. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (Holland), pp. 137-144.

George , Andrew (2004) 'Five scholars and one epic: Gilgamesh and the epic traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.' In: Yeghiazaryan, Azat, (ed.), The Armenian Epic “Daredevils of Sassoun” and the World Epic Heritage, 4–6 November, 2004 [= 2003!], Tsakhkadzor. Yerevan: National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, pp. 25-41.

George, Andrew (2002) 'How women weep? Reflections on a passage of Bilgames and the Bull of Heaven.' In: Parpola, S and Whiting, R, (eds.), Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East. Helsinki: University Helsinki (Finland), pp. 141-150.

George, Andrew (2000) 'E-sangil and E-temen-anki: the archetypal cult-centre.' In: Renger, J, (ed.), Babylon: Focus mesopotamischer Geschichte, Wiege früher Gelehrsamkeit, Mythos in der Moderne. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft (2). Saarbrück: SDV, pp. 67-86.

George, Andrew (2000) 'Four temple rituals from Babylon.' In: George, A R and Finkel, I L, (eds.), Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W. G. Lambert. Winona Lake, Ind. (USA): Eisenbrauns, pp. 259-299.

George , Andrew (1999) 'The Dogs of Ninkilim: Magic against field pests in ancient Mesopotamia.' In: Klengel, H and Renger, J, (eds.), Landwirtschaft im alten Mesopotamien — Ausgewählte Vorträge der XLI. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin 4.–8.7. 1994. Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient (18). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 291-299.

George, Andrew (1997) '"Bond of the lands": Babylon, the cosmic capital.' In: Wilhelm, G, (ed.), Die orientalische Stadt: Kontinuität, Wandel, Bruch. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft (1). Saarbrück: Saarbrücker Druckerei, pp. 125-145.

George , Andrew (1997) 'Assyria and the Western World.' In: Parpola, Simo and Whiting, Robert M, (eds.), Assyria 1995. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, pp. 69-75.

George , Andrew (1990) 'Tintir = Babylon.' In: Koldewey, R., (ed.), Das wieder erstehende Babylon, 5th ed. Munich, Germany: Beck, pp. 355-371.

Articles

George , Andrew R. (2009) 'Shattered tablets and tangled threads: Editing Gilgamesh, then and now.' Aramazd. Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 3 (1). pp. 7-30.

George , Andrew (2008) 'The sanctuary of Adad at Zabban? A fragment of a temple list in three sub-columns.' Bibliotheca Orientalis, 65 (5-6). pp. 714-717.

George , Andrew (2008) 'The civilizing of Enkidu: an unusual tablet of the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic.' Revue d'assyriologie, 101 (2007) . pp. 59-80.

George , Andrew (2008) 'Akkadian turru (t.urru B) "corner angle", and the walls of Babylon.' Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 98 (2). pp. 221-229.

George , Andrew (2007) 'The Tower of Babel: Archaeology, History and Cuneiform Texts.' Archiv fuer Orientforschung, 51 (2005/2006). pp. 75-95.

George , Andrew (2007) 'The Gilgamesh epic at Ugarit.' Aula Orientalis, 25 (2). pp. 237-254.

George , Andrew (2007) 'Ur-Namma B 71.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 2007 (4 no. 72). pp. 86-87.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (2006) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, XIII. Enuma Anu Ellil XX.' Iraq, 68 . pp. 23-57.

George, Andrew and Frame, Grant (2005) 'The royal libraries of Nineveh: New evidence for King Ashurbanipal’s tablet collecting.' Iraq, 67 (1). pp. 265-284.

George, Andrew (2004) 'What's new in the Gilgamesh epic? (in Arabic).' Sumer, 51 (2001-2) . pp. 90-103.

George , Andrew (2004) 'The seventh destiny-decreeing deity.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 2004 (1 no. 20). p. 21.

George , Andrew (2004) 'Palace names and epithets, and the Vaulted Building.' Sumer, 51 (2001-2) . pp. 38-42.

George, Andrew and Llop, Jaume (2003) 'Die babylonisch-assyrischen Beziehungen und die innere Lage Assyriens in der Zeit der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Ninurta-tukulti-Assur und Mutakkil-Nusku nach neuen keilschriftlichen Quellen.' Archiv für Orientforschung, 48-49 . pp. 1-23.

George, Andrew and Bongenaar, A C V M (2002) 'Tablets from Sippar: Supplementary bibliography etc. for Leichty, Catalogues VI-VIII, up to the end of 2000.' Orientalia, 71 (1) . pp. 55-156.

George, Andrew and Ismail, Khalid Salim (2002) 'Tablets from the Sippar library, XI. The Babylonian almanac.' Iraq, 64 . pp. 249-258.

George, Andrew (2001) 'Gilgamesh and the cedars of Lebanon.' Archaeology and History in Lebanon, 14 . pp. 8-12.

George , Andrew (1999) 'What's new in the Gilgamesh Epic?' Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 34 . pp. 51-58.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1998) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, VII. Three wisdom texts.' Iraq (60). pp. 187-206.

George , Andrew (1998) 'The opening of the Epic of Gilgamesh.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1998 (3 no. 100). p. 90.

George , Andrew (1997) 'The quarters of Babylon in the astronomical diaries.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1997/1 (18). p. 19.

George , Andrew (1997) 'Marduk and the cult of the gods of Nippur at Babylon.' Orientalia, 66 (1). pp. 65-70.

George , Andrew (1997) 'Sumerian tiru = “eunuch”.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1997 (3 no. 97). pp. 91-92.

George, Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1996) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, VI. Atra-hasis.' Iraq, 58 . pp. 147-90.

George , Andrew (1996) 'Studies in cultic topography and ideology.' Bibliotheca Orientalis, 53 . pp. 363-395.

George , Andrew (1996) 'The Akkadian word for “moustache”.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1996 (2 no. 60). pp. 51-52.

George, Andrew (1995) 'The Bricks of E-sagil.' Iraq, 57 . pp. 173-197.

George , Andrew (1995) 'Notes on the new text (appendix to F. N. H. Al-Rawi, Tablets from the Sippar Library, IV. Lugale).' Iraq, 57 . pp. 220-223.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1995) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, V. Mis pî.' Iraq, 57 . pp. 225-228.

George , Andrew (1995) 'Ea in hiding.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1995 (3 no. 68). pp. 59-60.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1994) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, III. Two royal counterfeits.' Iraq, 56 . pp. 135-148.

George , Andrew (1994) 'An ancient mistranslation in BRM IV 8.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1994 (2 no. 26). p. 27.

George , Andrew (1994) 'tazziqum "vexation".' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1994 (2 no. 27). p. 27.

George , Andrew (1993) 'Babylon Revisited: Archaeology and philology in harness.' Antiquity (67). pp. 734-746.

George , Andrew (1993) 'Ninurta-paqidat’s Dog Bite and other comic tales.' Iraq, 55 . pp. 63-75.

George , Andrew (1993) 'Exit the “House which Binds Death”: the names of Sennacherib’s Akitu temple and its cella.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1993 (2 no. 43). pp. 34-35.

George , Andrew (1992) 'Tintir V 50.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1992/4 (125). p. 91.

George , Andrew (1992) 'Another piece of Abi-eshuh.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1992 (3 no. 75). pp. 56-57.

George , Andrew (1991) 'The city wall of Babylon – a belt cord.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1991/4 (101). pp. 70-71.

George , Andrew (1991) 'Seven words.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1991/1 (19). p. 16.

George , Andrew (1991) 'Babylonian texts from the folios of Sidney Smith, Part Two: prognostic and diagnostic omens.' Revue d'assyriologie, 85 . pp. 137-167.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1991) 'Enuma Anu Enlil XIV and other early astronomical tables.' Archiv für Orientforschung, 38-39 . pp. 52-73.

George , Andrew (1990) 'Inscriptions from Tell al-Hawa 1987-88.' Iraq (52). pp. 41-46.

George , Andrew and Al-Rawi, F N H (1990) 'Tablets from the Sippar Library, II. Tablet II of the Babylonian Creation Epic.' Iraq (52). pp. 149-157.

George , Andrew (1990) 'The Day the Earth Divided: A geological aetiology in the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic.' Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie, 80 . pp. 214-219.

George , Andrew (1988) 'Three Middle Assyrian tablets in the British Museum.' Iraq (50). pp. 25-37.

George , Andrew (1988) 'Babylonian texts from the folios of Sidney Smith, Part One.' Revue d'assyriologie, 82 . pp. 139-162.

George , Andrew (1988) 'On SBTU II 29 and 30.' Archiv für Orientforschung, 35 . p. 23.

George , Andrew (1987) 'A Neo-Assyrian literary text.' State Archives of Assyria Bulletin, 1 (1). pp. 31-41.

George , Andrew (1986) 'Sennacherib and the Tablet of Destinies.' Iraq (48). pp. 133-146.

George , Andrew (1985) 'The Topography of Babylon reconsidered.' Sumer (44). pp. 7-24.

George, Andrew (1985) 'Observations on a passage of “Inanna’s Descent”.' Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 37 . pp. 109-113.

George , Andrew (1985) 'Notes on two extremes of weather.' Revue d'assyriologie, 79 . pp. 69-71.

George , Andrew (1979) 'Cuneiform texts in the Birmingham City Museum.' Iraq, 41 . pp. 121-140.

George , Andrew (1979) 'The cuneiform text Tin.tir.ki = Ba-bi-lu and the topography of Babylon.' Sumer, 35 . pp. 232-226.

Other

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh I, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh II, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh III, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh IV, score trandliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh V, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh VI, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh VII, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh VIII, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh IX, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh X, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh XI, score transliteration. London: SOAS.

George , Andrew (2007) SB Gilgamesh XII, score transliteration. London: SOAS.