• Paul-Alain Beaulieu is a Canadian Assyriologist, a Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Beaulieu earned a...
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    as that of a "figurehead" and "otiose deity" by Assyriologist Paul-Alain Beaulieu. Wilfred G. Lambert characterized his position as head of the pantheon...
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  • 1992, p. 159. Beaulieu 2003, p. 341. Krul 2018, p. 72. Beaulieu 2003, p. 325. Beaulieu 2003, p. 343. Krul 2018, p. 81. Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (1992). "Kissik...
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  • of Anu and Antu being equated with each other are attested too. Paul-Alain Beaulieu interprets this as an indication the cuneiform sign AN could be used...
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    people. The origin of both these words is unknown, and according to Paul-Alain Beaulieu neither of them has a plausible Sumerian, Akkadian or West Semitic etymology...
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    OCLC 20391775. Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (1998). "Ba'u-asītu and Kaššaya, Daughters of Nebuchadnezzar II". Orientalia. 67 (2): 173–201. JSTOR 43076387. Beaulieu, Paul-Alain...
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    in 546 BC out of fear of Cyrus. One possibility, suggested by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, is that Belshazzar was put in charge of Babylonia's defense and was...
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  • deities presented in the Enūma Eliš was a descendant of Anshar. Paul-Alain Beaulieu suggests that the logogram AN.ŠÁR also designates Assur in texts from...
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    with the name of the city as BAR.BAR, perhaps pronounced Babbar. Paul-Alain Beaulieu proposes that the original name could mean "shining" "glowing" or "white"...
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    ISBN 978-9004115095. Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (1986). The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon (556-539 B.C.). Yale University. ISBN 978-0-300-04314-3. Beaulieu, P.-A. (Oct...
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    The translation of the Nabonidus Cylinder of Sippar was made by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, author of, "The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556-539 B.C." [i...
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    been of Assyrian ancestry. According to Canadian Assyriologist Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Nabonidus's later intense interest in Harran, a peripheral city of...
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  • them could be referred to as the "queen of Borsippa". However, Paul-Alain Beaulieu concludes that while a degree of syncretism did occur between them,...
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  • . According to Paul-Alain Beaulieu, the name was most likely read as Kurunnītu, though Kurunnam has also been proposed. Beaulieu considers the former...
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    might also invoke Nirah according to Frans Wiggermann. However, Paul-Alain Beaulieu is uncertain if the deity in mention, represented by the logographic...
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    "sensuality" in translations of epithets involving this term, while Paul-Alain Beaulieu - "voluptuousness." Such titles include belet kubzi, "lady of...
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  • with charm"; tablet III, line 134, the end of the Aya section). Paul-Alain Beaulieu additionally proposes that Belet Larsa ("Lady of Larsa") known from...
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    spelling zrpnt is known from the Sefire inscriptions. Authors such as Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Andrew R. George, Joan Goodnick Westenholz and Takayoshi Oshima (who...
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    epithet which came to be treated as a separate manifestation of her. Paul-Alain Beaulieu proposes that she might correspond to Manungal, though he also notes...
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    most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian", asserts Paul-Alain Beaulieu, in Richard J. Clifford, ed., Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel...
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  • from the period of Persian rule over Mesopotamia. According to Paul-Alain Beaulieu, he must have remained a relatively popular deity in Ur. A peculiarity...
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  • before the Seleucid period are incredibly rare, and according to Paul-Alain Beaulieu as of 1992 known examples were limited to the god list An = Anum and...
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  • moral treatise on Cyrus in the form of an historical novella. Paul-Alain Beaulieu suggests that the Greek accounts may constitute an aggregate of various...
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    document authored by Enanedu [pl] while restoring the office. Paul-Alain Beaulieu notes that his investigation of the nature of the office of en priestess...
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  • that Nabonidus was related to the Sargonid dynasty". According to Paul-Alain Beaulieu, that Adad-guppi did not explicitly claim any royal ancestors herself...
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    according to Krul should be interpreted as "a form of Nergal". Paul-Alain Beaulieu instead argues that it is impossible to identify him as Nergal, as both...
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    Without Rival at Nineveh. University of Chicago Press. p. 183. Paul-Alain Beaulieu (2003). The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period. Brill...
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    the Babylonians captured Harran around 552 BCE. The historian Paul-Alain Beaulieu believes it's possible that Nabonidus may have encouraged Cyrus to rebel...
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  • in Honour of Maurits N. van Loon. A. A. Balkema. pp. 117–133. Paul-Alain Beaulieu (1999). "The Babylonian Man in the Moon". Journal of Cuneiform Studies...
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    attested in Neo-Babylonian letters found in Uruk, according to Paul-Alain Beaulieu originally sent from Eridu. Further variant spellings such as Damnun...
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