AHMA Emeriti Faculty
Anne D. Kilmer, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1959)
Emeritus Professor of Assyriology
Akkadian, Hurrian, Ancient Near Eastern History, Literature and Music.
adkilmer@berkeley.edu
Selected Works:
"The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1971
"The Mesopotamian Concept of Overpopulation and its Solution as Reflected in the Mythology." Orientalia, 1972
Sounds from Silence: Recent Discoveries in Ancient Near Eastern Music (record with book), 1976
"Sumerian and Akkadian Names for Designs and Geometric Shapes." In A. Gunter (ed.), Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1990
"An Oration on Babylon." Altorientalische Forschungen 18, 1991.
"A Note on Overlooked Word-Play in the Akkadian Gilgamesh." In W.R. Dynes and S. Donaldson (eds), Studies in Homosexuality: A 13 Volume Anthology of Scholarly Articles, 1993. Reprinted in Homosexuality in the Ancient World, vol. 1.
"Fugal Features of Atrahasis: The Birth Theme." Mesopotamian Poetic Language: Sumerian and Akkadian Proceedings of the Groningen Group for the Study of Mesopotamian Literature, Vol.2, Styx Publications, 1996)
"Musik." Reallexikon dev Assyriologie VIII, 1995