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KASKAL - A Journal of History, Environments, and Cultures of the Ancient Near East

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Volume 20 - 2023

  • 1 - MASSIMO MAIOCCHI, Legal Regulations at Ebla – Part II: Abduction of an Unmarried Girl (ARET XVI 1 obv. vii 9-ix 13) 
  • 15 - BIEKE MAHIEU, Fifteen Years of Coregency between Abi-ešuh and Ammi-ditana 
  • 43 - OĞUZ SOYSAL, Kleine Beiträge zu den unpublizierten Bo-Texten (II). Zwei fragmente eines mittelhethitischen magischen rituals gegen den westanatolischen feind Kukkulli (Bo 3081 und Bo 6421)
  • 59 - OĞUZ SOYSAL, Kleine Beiträge zu den unpublizierten Bo-Texten (III). Akkadisch-Sumerische fragmente
  • 71 - ENRIQUE JIMENEZ et al. rom the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab 36–47 
  • 171 - ELI TADMOR, More than a Single Truth: Polyvalence in Gilgamesh’s Dreams of the Meteorite and the Axe 
  • 183 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, The ‘Man in the Moon’ Revisited: The bašmu in the Sun, the Lion in the Moon and the lumāšu
  • 215 - JON TAYLOR, Form and Formatting of Assyrian Prisms and Cylinders 
  • 233 - KAREN POLINGER FOSTER, Mise en Abyme in Mesopotamian Art 
  • 267 - DAVIDE NADALI, King-Tree or Tree-King? On the Metaphorical Iconographic Interplay in Ancient Assyria 
  • 281 - MICHAEL JURSA, Consecrating Priests for Ištar

 

 

Previous issues

  • 1 - PIOTR STEINKELLER, On Prostitutes, Midwives and Tavern-Keepers in Third Millennium BC Babylonia
  • 39 - NOEMI BORRELLI, An Early Old Babylonian Tablet from the Carugo Collection and a Few Remarks on the Role of the šuš3 Officials
  • 47 - LUDOVICO PORTUESE, A Gender-Centered Perspective on Manners and Etiquette for Understanding the Historical Role of the Assyrian Queen
  • 75 - KATHLEEN ABRAHAM – PETER ZILBERG, A Bird-Keeping Agreement from Šā\ir
  • 83 - PAOLA CORÒ, The “Property of Anu”. Exploring the Make-Up of the Temple Property and its Management in Hellenistic Uruk
  • 99 - WAYNE HOROWITZ, Some Thoughts on I##ūru Šikinšu, “The Bird Whose Nature Is” (BM 66611)
  • 105 - ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ, et al. From the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab 25–35
  • 203 - FRANCESCO SIRONI – MAURIZIO VIANO, Šiduri and Thetis: A Note on Two Parallel Scenes (Gilgameš OB VA + VB iii and Hom. Il. XXIV 120-132)
  • 213 - DANIEL SCHWEMER, Additional Anti-Witchcraft Texts I (Maqlû)
  • 251 - DANIEL SCHWEMER, Additional Anti-Witchcraft Texts II (CMAwR)
  • 295 - DARYN GRAHAM, Septimius Severus, the Parthian Empire, and the East under Rome’s Aegis
  • 313 - YOUNGJAE LEE, Revisiting Tu-ta-ti and an Edition of an Unpublished Exemplar

Forum

  • 319 - BERNARDO URBANI – MARCOS SUCH-GUTIÉRREZ, The Tablilla de Caracas: A New Tablet from Umma Concerning Reeds; With Historical Comments on Its Arrival in Venezuela
  • 1 - BIEKE MAHIEU, The Relative Chronology of the Presargonic Period in the King Lists
  • 25 - ERICA SCARPA, All the Kings’ Sons: The Role and Tasks of the dumu-nita en at Ebla (Syria, 24th Cent. BCE)
  • 55 - OĞUZ SOYSAL, Kleine Beiträge Zu Den Unpublizierten Bo-Texten (I) Die Klageschrift Eines Althethitischen Königs (Bo 6109)
  • 65 - MAYNARD P. MAIDMAN, “This Tablet is Nuzi’s”: Towers, Gates, and Preparations for War
  • 89 - CARLO ZACCAGNINI, Pairs of Horses and Single Horses at Nuzi
  • 111 - JUAN-PABLO VITA, The Hittites in the Administrative Texts of Ugarit
  • 127 - RASMUS JOHAN AARSLEV, Fifteen Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Cuneiform Tablets from The National Museum of Denmark 
  • 159 - ENRIQUE JIMENEZ et al., From the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab 16–24 
  • 257 - VALERIO PISANIELLO – FEDERICO GIUSFREDI, Anatolian Glosses in the Akkadian “Medizinischen Omina”
  • 283 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, The Appearance of Birds (BM 66611)
  • 297 - Papers presented within the framework of the Project “SHABO. Shaping Boundaries. Ethnicity and Geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Area (First Millennium BC)”
  • 299 - SIMONETTA PONCHIA, Scenarios of Aegean and Greek Presence in the Near East and Identity Construction: A Perspective from the Early Iron Age Syro-Anatolian Sources
  • 323 - SILVIA GABRIELI, Borders, Routes, and Contacts between Mesopotamia and Anatolia: Some Considerations on the Role of Cilicia under the Assyrian Empire
  • 353 - FABRIZIO GAETANO, Border Interactions in Asia Minor: The Lydian Case and the Trojan Case 
  • 379 - LUISA PRANDI, The Thracian Bosporus between Europe and Asia in Fact and Fiction (II/I Millennium BC) 
  • 1 - NOEMI BORRELLI, The Central State and the Provincial Authorities in Late Third Millennium Babylonia: Badari and the Governors of Ĝirsu/Lagaš 
  • 23 - YORAM COHEN, Who’s Who in the “House of Ur-Meme”. Reconfiguring Old Babylon Literature and Ur III Historical Sources
  • 53 - SETH RICHARDSON, The Origin of Foreign Slaves in the Late Old Babylonian Period 
  • 75 - EVA VON DASSOW, Liberty and Duty in Late Bronze Age States 
  • 125 - GIULIA TORRI, On the Social Role of the Hittite ḫilammi- and ḫilammatti-workers in Light of Cuneiform Sources
  • 141 - CARLO ZACCAGNINI, Pomp and Circumstance at Nuzi, on the Eve of the End 
  • 211 - NICLA DE ZORZI, News on Enūma Anu Enlil 47 and its Nuzi Forerunner
  • 223 - GILAD ITACH, A Response to N. Na’aman: A Recently Unearthed Assyrian Road Station (bīt mardīti) near Tel Aphek
  • 231 - ENRIQUE JIMENEZ et al., From the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab

Forum

  • 281 - ALISA POPOVA - BENJAMIN R. FOSTER, Six American Women Scholars in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1945
  • 303 - PAOLA CORÒ - STEFANIA ERMIDORO, “Firing Holes”: New Perspectives on an Old Question
  • 1 - BIEKE MAHIEU, The Synchronisation within and between the Dynasties of Akkad, Uruk IV, and Gutium
  • 27 - JAN GERRIT DERCKSEN, New Fragments and Joins to Published Emar Tablets
  • 53 - LIVIO WARBINEK, Was the Hittite MUNUSENSI a Dream Interpretress?
  • 75 - ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ et al., From the Electronic Babylonian Literature Lab 1–7
  • 95 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to Already Edited Enūma Anu Enlil (EAE) Tablets, Part VI: the Lunar Eclipse Omen from Tablets 21-22 Published by Rochberg-Halton in Afo Beih 22
  • 133 - NADAV NA’AMAN, A Recently Unearthed Assyrian Road Station (Bît Mardîti) Near Tel Aphek
  • 139 - Papers presented at the International Conference on Scholarship as Literature: Internal Mechanisms of Text Generation and Rhetorics in Scholarly Texts and Series from Ancient Mesopotamia and Neighbouring Cultures
  • 141 - JAY CRISOSTOMO, Creating Proverbs: The Listing Scholarship of the Sumerian Proverbs Collecions
  • 159 - NICLA DE ZORZI, Literature as Scholarship: Some Reflections on Repetition with Variation and the Construction of Meaning in the Šamaš Hymn 112-117
  • 183 - CÉLINE DEBOURSE, Debita Reverentia: Understanding Royal Humiliation in the New Year’s Festival Texts
  • 201 - URI GABBAY, The Production and Transmission of Sumerian Emesal Litanies in Their Historical and Cultic Contexts
  • 221 - ULLA KOCH, Principles of Astrological Omen Composition – Some Challenges or Reverse Engeneering the Astrological Hermeneutics
  • 237 - JUDITH PFITZNER, The Use of ELLUMEBBUM, and NAMRUM in the Sign List Diri
  • 254 - ABRAHAM WINITZER, History as Scholarship in the Early Babylonian Divination Literature (Part 1)
  • 279 - Papers Presented at the VIU 2018-2019 Advanced Seminar in the Humanities on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East”
  • 281 - SZILVIA SÖVEGJÁRTÓ, What Does the Fox Say? Considerations on the Character Type of the Fox in the Sumerian Literature
  • 293 - BEATRICE BARAGLI, Abracadabra Incantations: Nonsense or Healing Therapies?
  • 323 - ALEXANDER JOHANNES EDMONDS, On the Trail of Na’id-ŠîḪU
  • 349 - SOPHUS HELLE, A Literary Heritage: Authorship in the Neo-Assyrian Period
  • 373 - ELLIE BENNETT, “I am a Man”: Masculinities in the Titulary of the Neo-Assyrian Kings in the Royal Inscriptions
  • 393 - ANGELIKA KELLNER, Kings, Officials and Priestesses, Chronographic Lists as Cornerstones of Chronology in Greece and in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 409 - SHANA ZAIA, All that Glitters: Gold in the Royal Ideology of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 431 - SAKI KIKUCHI, Hemerologies and their Transmission in Ancient Mesopotamia: the Case of Hemerologies for the Seventh Month
  • 453 - GIOELE ZISA, Going, Returning, Rising: the Movement of the Organs in the Mesopotamian Anatomy
  • 1 - MASSIMO MAIOCCHI - MANUEL MOLINA, Pre-Ur III Administrative Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. I. Texts from the Archives of Gudea’s Dynasty
  • 47 - MAURIZIO VIANO, Continuity and Change in the hazannu Office at Emar
  • 57 - CLAUDIA POSANI, What is Meant by “Evil” in TELL AHMAR 1?
  • 67 - ZOLTÁN NIEDERREITER, Bead (Neck Stone) of Aššur-Iddin, Palace Herald of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria
  • 85 CAROLINA LÓPEZ-RUIZ - FUMI KARAHASHI - MARCUS ZIEMANN, They who saw the Deep: Achilles, Gilgamesh and the Underworld
  • 109 - Proceedings of the workshop “Feasting and Festivals in Ancient Mesopotamia” (Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, 11-12 May 2017)
  • 111 - ELISA ROSSBERGER, What’s inside this Jar? Actual and Iconic Use of Vessels in Early Mesopotamia
  • 139 - CLAUDIA E. SUTER, Feasting and Elite Women in Early Mesopotamia: a Contribution from the Visual Record
  • 55 - MARIA VITTORIA TONIETTI, Music, a Central Aspect of Religious and Secular Festivals: Information from the Ebla Archives
  • 171 - WALTHER SALLABERGER, Festival Provisions in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia
  • 201 - EVELYN KUTZER, Musical Performances in the Contest of Feasting and Festivals in Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium BCE
  • 219 - ANNE LÖHNERT, Feasts and Festivals According to the Texts from the Palace Buildings in Nuzi
  • 243 - BEATE PONGRATZ-LEISTEN, The Social World of Assyrian State Rituals
  • 255 - KOZAD M. AHMED, Feasts and Festivals in Kurdistan, Past and Present

Forum

  • 267 - DANIELE MORANDI BONACOSSI – CRISTINA TONGHINI, The Many Facets of Heritage Destruction in Iraq
  • 1 - FUMI KARAHASHI - AGNÈS GARCIA-VENTURA, Overseers of Textile Workers in Presargonic Lagash
  • 21 - CARLO ZACCAGNINI, The last parades of the King of Nuzi
  • 57 - YORAM COHEN – MAURIZIO VIANO, A Land-grant Document from Emar: A (Re-)edition and Discussion of LN-104 (aka Gs-Kutscher 6)
  • 73 - MEINDERT DIJKSTRA, The itkalzi-Ritual: New Joins and Duplicates from Hattuša
  • 89 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to Already Edited Enūma Anu Enlil (EAE) Tablets, Part IV: the Lunar Eclipse Omens from Tablets 15–19 Published by Rochberg-Halten in AfO Beih 22
  • 121 - KRISTIN KLEBER, Arabian Gold in Babylonia
  • 135 - STEFANIA ERMIDORO, New Data on the Babylonian Hydraulic Landscape: An Update to the Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes Vol. 8
  • 175 - MARY FRAZER, An Elementary Late Babylonian Scribal Exercise Featuring Nazi-Maruttaš
  • 185 - BIRGIT GUFLER, Deiokes, Ekbatana und das Land der Meder

Forum

  • 209 - ROCÍO DA RIVA, Il re Nabopolassar, la storiografia classica e la leggenda sulla distruzione dell’Assiria
  • 1 - EDUARDO TORRECILLA, Divine Names in the Tall Hadidi/Azû Texts
  • 15 - SCOTT B. NOEGEL, On the Wings of the Winds: Towards an Understanding of Winged Mischwesen in the Ancient Near East
  • 55 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to already Edited Enūma Anu Enlil (EAE) Tablets, Part V: the Lunar Eclipse Omens from Tablet 20 Published by Rochberg-Halton in AfO Beih 22 with an excursus on šurinnu (šu.nir)
  • 75 - BENJAMIN DEWAR, Sitting on Top of the World: the Structure and Narrative of the Throne-Base Inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III
  • 91 - YIGAL BLOCH, From Horse Trainers to Dependent Workers: The šušānu Class in the Late Babylonian Period with a Special Focus on Āl-Yā~ūdu Tablets Papers Presented at the VIU 2015-2016 Seminar in the Humanities on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East” 
  • 119 - Foreword by L. Milano
  • 121 - ARMANDO BRAMANTI, The Scepter (ĝidru) in Early Mesopotamian Written Sources
  • 153 - GINA KONSTANTOPOULOS, Through the Guts of a Beggar: Power, Authority, and the King in Old Babylonian Proverbs
  • 169 - AINO HÄTINEN, “I Am a Fully Laden Boat!” A Mesopotamian Metaphor Revisited
  • 187 - MADDALENA RUMOR, There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool: The Mesopotamian Aluzinnu and its Relationship to the Greek alazÛn

Forum

  • 211 - SOPHUS HELLE, Babylonian Perspectives on the Uncertainty of Death: SB Gilgamesh X 301-321
  • 1 - ANNUNZIATA ROSITANI, Some Old Babylonian DocketsDealing with Sheep and Goats
  • 31 - MAYNARD P. MAIDMAN JEN, 800-833: The Text Editions
  • 155 - ELENA DEVECCHI, Missing Treaties of the Hittites
  • 183 - CAROLINA FERRANDI, The Ritual of Palliya, King of Kizzuwatna (CTH 475). Some Addenda to its Textual Reconstruction
  • 199 - MICHELE CAMMAROSANO, Foreign Gods in Ḫatti. A New Edition of CTH 510
  • 245 - SIMONA LAMANTE - JÜRGEN LORENZ, KUB 27.68+ ein Inventarzum Kult von Nerik
  • 267 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to Already Edited Enūma Anu Enlil (EAE) Tablets, Part III: A New Copy from Babylonia for the Tablet on Planets (MUL.UDU.IDIM) of the Omen Series
  • 281 - CLAUDIA POSANI, Osservazioni sull'uso dei nomi propri scribali nelle iscrizioni reali neo-ittite
  • 291 - MARC VAN DE MIEROOP, Metaphors of Massacre in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions
  • 319 - SILVIA SALIN, When Disease "Touches", "Hits", or "Seizes" in Assyro-Babylonian Medicine
  • 337 - KRISTIÁN SIMKÓ, On the Meaning and Cultural Setting of the Phrase lā kišitti šamme amme
  • 349 - TIM CLAYDEN - BERNHARD SCHNEIDER, Assurbanipal and the Ziggurat at Nippur
  • 383 - KATSUJI SANO, Die den Assyrerkönigen übersandten ausländischen Frauen mit Mitgift in Neuassyrischer Zeit
  • 391 - ARMANDO BRAMANTI, Another Brick in Nebuchadnezzar's Wall. A Catalogue of the Cuneiform Texts in the Collections of the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome
  • 401 - OLGA V. POPOVA, The Royal Family and its Territorial Implantation during the Neo-Babylonian Period
  • 411 - JULIEN MONERIE, More than a Workman? The case of the ēpeš dulli tīdi ša bīt ilāni from Hellenistic Uruk

Papers presented at the VIU 2013-2014 seminar in the Humanities on "Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Mear East"

  • 449 - Foreword by L. Milano
  • 451 - AINSLEY HAWTHORN, "You Are Just Like Me": The Motif of the Double in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Agushaya Poem
  • 467 - SIMONE PITTL, Some Considerations on Disabled People in the Sumerian Myth of Enki and Ninma
  • 485 - SELENE WISNOM, Stress Patterns in Enūma Eliš. A Comparative Study
  • 503 - PATRICK MICHEL, Élites mésopotamiennes et idéologie séleucide: Considérations sur la pratique de l'évergétisme et du culte royal
  • 519 - M. WILLIS MONROE, Organizational Structure of Knowledge in Cuneiform Sources
  • 1 - RAN ZADOK, Hīt in Sūhu
  • 23 - STEFANO SEMINARA, Death, Leichenhügel und Zauberkreise: Die gestaltende Kraft der Sprache in den Königsinschriften Ur-Nanšes
  • 47 - GIANNI MARCHESI, From Sumerian Grammar to Tilmun's Taxes: Interpreting é GÚ kar-ra kalam-ma-ka in the Enki and Ninsikila Myth
  • 57 - JOSUÉ J. JUSTEL, Women and Family in the Legal Documentation of Emar (With Additional Data from Other Late Bronze Age Syrian Archives)
  • 85 - AMIR GILAN, The Hittite Offering Lists and Related Texts (CTH 610-611) as Historical Sources
  • 103 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to already Edited enūma anu enlil (EAE) Tablets, Part II: The Tablets Concerning the Appearance of the Sun Published in PIHANS 73, Part I
  • 141 - TERRI TANAKA, Dress and Identity in the Old Assyrian Sargon Legend
  • 159 - JAMIE NOVOTNY, The Sîn-šarra-iškun Stone Block Inscription in the Aššur Site Museum: A Revised Edition and Notes on the Nabû Temple at Aššur
  • 171 - STEPHANIE DALLEY, Itineraries of Nakht-Hor and Alexander in Assyria
  • 183 - PAOLA CORÒ, Identifying Women in Hellenistic Uruk: A Matter of Perspective?
  • 1 - MASSIMO FORLANINI, How to Infer Ancient Roads and Itineraries from Heterogeneous Hittite Texts: The Case of the Cilician (Kizzuwatnean) Road System
  • 35 - ALESSANDRA GILIBERT, Death, Amusement and the City: Civic Spectacles and the Theatre Palace of Kapara, King of Gūzāna
  • 69 - REINHARD PIRNGRUBER with a contribution by SVEN TOST, Police Forces in First Millennium BC Babylonia and Beyond
  • 89 - JEANETTE C. FINCKE, Additions to the Venus Tablets of the Omen Series enūma anu enlil (EAE) Published in BPO3 as Group F
  • 111 - GIULIA TONON, La costituzione del dominio lagide in Egitto: il caso di Tolomeo Soter

The Hurrian texts from Ortaköy/Šapinuwa

  • 129 - Foreword by Aygül Süel
  • 131 - STEFANO DE MARTINO - LEYLA MURAT - AYGÜL SÜEL, The Eleventh Tablet of the itkalzi Ritual from Šapinuwa
  • 149 - GERNOT WILHELM - AYGÜL SÜEL, The Hittite-Hurrian Offering Ritual for Tašmišarri Or.97/1
  • 169 - MAURO GIORGIERI - LEYLA MURAT - AYGÜL SÜEL, The kaluti-List of the Storm-god of Šapinuwa from Ortaköy (Or.90/175) and its Parallels from Boğazköy

Papers presented at the VIU 2011-2012 seminar in the Humanities on "Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Mear East"

  • 185 - Foreword by L. Milano
  • 187 - MARY FRAZER, Nazi-Maruttaš in Later Mesopotamian Tradition
  • 221 - VIOLETTA CORDANI, What Kind of Hero? Aspects of Heroic Kingship in Hittite Literature
  • 235 - ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ, "The Creation of the King": A Reappraisal
  • 255 - CHRISTOPHER METCALF, Babylonian Perspectives on the Certainty of Death
  • 269 - SAANA SVÄRD, Female Agency and Authorship in Mesopotamian Texts

Forum

  • 281 - YORAM COHEN, Problems in the History and Chronology of Emar
  • LAITH M. HUSSEIN, Bauplanung und Administration in altbabylonischer Zeit: Ein Tonbullen Archiv aus Tell Harmal (Šaduppûm)
  • SIR GAVAZ, Involving the Whereabouts of the Tahurpa City
  • JÜRGEN LORENZ - ILKNUR TAŞ, Zwei neue Anschlüsse zu Hethitischen Beschwörungsritualen
  • MARIA ELENA BALZA, Two Cylinder Seals from Kavusan Höyük (Turkey)
  • JEAN-JACQUES GLASSNER, Le devin, la droite, la gauche et la manipulation du foie de la victime
  • SEBASTIAN FINK, Die Frage nach der Gerechtigkeit Gottes im Alten Orient
  • CORNELIA WUNSCH - F. Rachel Magdalene, A Slave is not Supposed to Wear such a Garment!

Decoding Gilgamesh: proceedings of a conference Held on 12th-14th April 2010 at St John’s College, Cambridge:

  • MARTIN WORTHINGTON, Introductory Note
  • PETER DE VILLE, Gilgamesh: Some Suggestions for Literary Interpretation
  • A.R. GEORGE, The Mayfly on the River Individual and Collective Destiny in the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • JANE GILBERT, Repetition and the Death Drive in Gilgamesh and Medieval French Literature
  • JOHANNES HAUBOLD, Visualisation in Homer and Gilgamesh
  • RICHARD NORTH - MARTIN WORTHINGTON, Gilgameš and Beowulf: Foundations of a Comparison
  • CHRISTIAN ZGOLL, From Wild Being to Human to Friend. Reflections on Anthropology in the Gilgamesh Epic and in Homer’s Odyssey
  • 1 - THOMAS E. BALKE, Die Religiösen ‘Titel’ PA4-PA4 und NI-A-A im Präsargonischen Onomastikon
  • 11 - KLAUS WAGENSONNER, New Light on ‘Sîn-iddinam and Iškur’
  • 43 - NICLA DE ZORZI, The omen series Shumma izbu: internal structure and hermeneutic strategies
  • 77 - MAYNARD P. MAIDMAN, Nuzi, the Club of the Great Powers, and the Chronology of the Fourteenth Century
  • 141 - VIOLETTA CORDANI, Dating The Ascension To The Throne Of Šuppiluliuma I
  • 161 - ITAMAR SINGER, The Historical Context of two Tell Nebi Mend/Qadeš Letters 
  • 177 - JOHANNES HACKL, Bojana Janković, Michael Jursa, Das Briefdossier des Šumu-ukīn
  • 1 - MONICA ARRIVABENI, Early Bronze Age Settlement in the Tell Leilan Region: A Report on the Ceramic Material of the 1995 Survey
  • 51 - LICIA ROMANO, Who was Worshipped in the Abu Temple at Tell Asmar?
  • 67 - ITZHAQ SHAI - Joe Uziel, The Whys and Why Nots of Writing: Literacy and Illiteracy in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Ages
  • 85 - MARCO MARIZZA, La papponimia nel mondo ittita. Casi accertati e casi presunti
  • 99 - Papers Presented at the VIU 2008-2009 Seminar on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East”
  • 101 - CHRISTIAN W. HESS, Towards the Origins of the Hymnic Epic Dialect
  • 123 - MARTIN WORTHINGTHON, mamma(n) ... ul and Its Alternatives in Babylonian Literature
  • 143 - ALEXA BARTELMUS, Restoring the Past. A Historical Analysis of the Royal Temple Building Inscriptions from the Kassite Period 
  • 173 - LUISA BARBATO, Rethoric of Landscape in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions from Sargon II to Ashurbanipal
  • 197 - ANGELA R. ROSKOP, Deluge, War, and Dios Boulê : Making Sense of Cross-Cultural Affinities in the Biblical Flood Story

Forum

  • 219 - MASSIMILIANO MARAZZI, Scrittura, percezione e cultura: qualche riflessione sull’Anatolia in età ittita
  • 1 - MINNA LÖNNQVIST, Archaeological Surveys of Jebel Bishri. The Preliminary Report of the Finnish Mission to Syria, 2005-2006
  • 43 - WOLFGANG HEIMPEL, Blind Workers in the Ur III Texts
  • 49 - MASSIMO FORLANINI, Upper Mesopotamia in the middle of the 17th Century B.C.  according to the Hittite texts
  • 77 - FRANCESCO FUSCAGNI, An unpublished Hittite Fragment of Evocation Ritual: 894/Z
  • 85 - NICLA DE ZORZI, Bird Divination in Mesopotamia. New Evidence From BM 108874
  • 137 - DAVIDE NADALI, Sieges and similes of Sieges in the Royal Annals: The Conquest of Damascus by Tiglath-Pileser III
  • 151 - RADOSŁAW TARACSEWICZ, Bird Breeding in Babylonian Sippar        
  • 215 - STEFAN ZAWADZKI, A Document concerning Sale of an Ass from Persian Sippar

Forum

  • 223 - FUMI KARAHASHI, Argument Structure of Sumerian Verbs: Causative alternation
  • 237 - FREDERICK MARIO FALES, Art, Performativity, Mimesis, Narrative, Ideology, and Audience: Reflections on Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the light of recent studies    
  • 1 - CLAUDIA E. SUTER, Who are the Women in Mesopotamian Art from ca. 2334-1763 BCE?
  • 57 - MARTIN BOMMAS, Die verstorbenen Könige im kulturellen Gedächtnis des Alten Ägypten
  • 73 - MARIA EMANUELA ALBERTI, Murex shells as Raw Material: the Purple-dye industry and its By-products. Interpreting the Archaeological Record
  • 91 - Papers Presented at the Verona Workshop (2007) on “Administration and Ideology in the Ancient Near East”
  • 93 - WALTHER SALLABERGER, Rechtsbrüche in Handel. Diplomatie und Kult ein memorandum aus Ebla über Verfehlungen Maris (ARET 13,15)
  • 111 - HAGAN BRUNKE, The nakabtum. An Administrative Superstructure for the Storage and Distribution of Agricultural Products
  • 127 - PAOLA PAOLETTI, Elusive Silver? Evidence for the Circulation of Silver in the Ur III State
  • 157 - Papers Presented at the VIU 2006-2007 Seminar on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East”
  • 159 - JEFFREY L. COOLEY, Inana and Sukaletuda: a Sumerian Astral Myth
  • 173 - ALEXANDRA KLEINERMAN, Money, Memory and Miscellany: understanding the presence of historical elites in early second millennium pedagogical composition
  • 187 - GIULIA F. GRASSI, Belshazzar’s Feast and Feats: the Last Prince of Babylon in Ancient Eastern and Western Sources
  • 211 - MARTIN LANG, Floating from Babylon to Rome. Ancient Near Eastern Flood Stories in the Mediterranean World
  • 233 - ERIK VAN DONGEN, The Study of Near Eastern influences on Greece: towards the Point
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