New ISAW Library titles: March 2016

A list of books added to the ISAW Library in March 2016 is now available online on the ISAW Library Website. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "East Asia" and "Ancient Near East & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification. The authors and titles of works in non-Roman languages are given in their original script. This list is also available in a Zotero library.

The 172 volumes added in March are a diverse grouping, including over a dozen volumes on the archaeology of Central Asia; a number of papyrological publications, including 16 volumes from the series Papyrologica Florentina and two recently-published volumes from Ägyptische und Orientalische Papyri und Handschriften des Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung Berlin (AOP); and a number of important Assyriological volumes (spanning over a century, from the 1890s to the 1990s) from the library of Hayim and Miriam Tadmor.

Notable among the titles added this month are several works on Assyrian and Babylonian science and medicine, including four volumes from the series Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen (BAM)  (Large Collection: PJ3921.M5 K63 Bd.1-Bd.8). Started in 1963 by Franz Köcher, the series came under the guidance of Markham J. Geller of the Freie Universität Berlin after Köcher's death in 2002. The six initial volumes of this series presented autograph copies of Assyrian and Babylonian texts on medical subjects, grouped based on the location of their discovery. Under Geller, the series now groups its texts thematically, and also incorporates critical editions of the texts with transliterations and English translations. The titles added in March include three volumes of Köcher's original work as well as the two most recent volumes edited by Geller: 2005's Renal and Rectal Disease Texts and 2015's Healing Magic and Evil Demons: Canonical Udug-Hul Incantations. These volumes are indispensable for the study of medicine in the Ancient Near East, and along with the other titles added this month, they greatly enrich our library.