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 +** Elamite Rock Reliefs ** 
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 +//Title//: Álvarez-Mon, J., //The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands: A Complete Inventory and Analysis (from the Seventeenth to the Sixth Century BC)//, University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2019. 
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 +//Keywords//: Elam - Elamite - highlands - monumental reliefs - ancient Iran - remote locations  cultural heritage - Izeh - Malamir - Xong-e Azdhar - Shah Savar - Shekaft-e Salman - Kul-e Farah - Ghale Tol plain - Qal-e Tul - Mamasani Fahliya river - Kurangun - Marvdasht plain - Naqsh-e Rustam - archaeological context - ritual-religious - aesthetic-ecological phenomena
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 +//Abstract//: The Monumental Reliefs of the Elamite Highlands documents and analyzes for the first time a corpus of eighteen monumental highland reliefs from the Elamite civilization in ancient Iran, which—hitherto preserved by their remote location and anonymous existence—have recently become imperiled by an influx of tourists and the development of the surrounding landscapes. With this book, Javier Álvarez-Mon aims to safeguard this important part of Iran’s cultural heritage.
 +The eighteen reliefs presented in this volume are spread across the valley of Izeh/Malamir (Xong-e Azdhar, Shah Savar, Shekaft-e Salman, and Kul-e Farah), the Ghale Tol plain (Qal-e Tul), the Mamasani Fahliyan river region (Kurangun), and the Marvdasht plain (Naqsh-e Rustam). In his analysis of these reliefs, Álvarez-Mon draws from the complementary disciplines of art history and archaeology, giving equal weight to the archaeological context of these artifacts and traditional methods of artistic analysis in order to determine the nature and significance of each artifact’s form and theme. At the same time, the book’s dual emphases on ritual-religious and aesthetic-ecological phenomena respond to the contemporary challenges of the dissociation of human existence from nature and the commodification of the environment on an unsustainable scale, presenting the preservation of this remarkable corpus of monumental art as a matter of urgency.
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 +
 +** Penn Museum Middle East Galleries ** 
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 +//Title//: Tinney, S., and K. Sonik, //Journey to the city: a companion to the Middle East galleries at the Penn Museum//, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2019. 
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 +//Keywords//: Philadelphia - Penn Museum - research - archaeological excavations - ancient Middle East - Middle East Galleries - planning - galleries - concepts - museology - urbanisation - Mesopotamia - Persia - modern Philadelphia 
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 +//Abstract//: The Penn Museum has a long and storied history of research and archaeological exploration in the ancient Middle East. This book highlights this rich depth of knowledge while also serving as a companion volume to the Museum's signature Middle East Galleries opening in April 2018. This edited volume includes chapters and integrated short, focused pieces from Museum curators and staff actively involved in the detailed planning of the new galleries. In addition to highlighting the most remarkable and interesting objects in the Museum's extraordinary Middle East collections, this volume illuminates the primary themes within these galleries (make, settle, connect, organize, and believe) and provides a larger context within which to understand them.
 +
 +The ancient Middle East is home to the first urban settlements in human history, dating to the fourth millennium BCE; therefore, tracing this move toward city life figures prominently in the book. The topic of urbanization, how it came about and how these early steps still impact our daily lives, is explored from regional and localized perspectives, bringing us from Mesopotamia (Ur, Uruk, and Nippur) to Islamic and Persianate cites (Rayy and Isfahan) and, finally, connecting back to life in modern Philadelphia. Through examination of topics such as landscape, resources, trade, religious belief and burial practices, daily life, and nomads, this very important human journey is investigated both broadly and with specific case studies.
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 +
 +** Fs Freydank** 
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 +//Title//: Neumann, H., and D. Prechel, //Beiträge zur Kenntnis und Deutung altorientalischer Archivalien: Festschrift für Helmut Freydank zum 80. Geburtstag//, Münster: Zaphon, 2019. 
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 +//Keywords//: Assyria - Middle Assyrian - Hittite - Dūr-Katlimmu - inhabutants - rituals - incantations - Assyrian pedestals - divine symbols - Symbolsockel - Tukultī-Ninurta I. - Babylon - legal documents - Adad-bēl-gabbe II - Ḫašip-apu - Šaḫlu-Teššup - assembly - Old Assyrian city state 
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 +//Abstract//: Two dozen articles are devoted to the Assyriologist Helmut Freydank. In accordance with his special field of research several focus on Assyrian, especially Middle Assyrian, and Hittite topics. Almost a monograph by itself, S. Salah offers a complete and annotated inventory of the inhabitants of Dūr-Katlimmu. Hittite and Babylonian rituals and incantations are dealt with by contributions of B. Böck, B. Christiansen and S.M. Maul. A. Schmitt provides the reader with an update on Assyrian pedestals with divine symbols (Symbolsockel). Juridical questions of Hittite, Old, Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods are debated by B. Faist, D. Prechel, D. Shibata and K.R. Veenhof.
 +([[https://www.zaphon.de/FS-Freydank/en |table of content]])
 +
 +
 +** Elamite Burial Practices ** 
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 +//Title//: Wicks, Y., //Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors//, Leiden: Brill, 2019. 
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 +//Keywords//: Southwest Iran - Neo-Elamite period - 1st millennium BC - Persian Empire - mortuary record - mortuary practices - ritual - belief - social structures - identity - Elam - lowland - highland - inhabitants 
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 +//Abstract//: Recent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors, Yasmina Wicks continues the investigation of this critical epoch from the perspective of the mortuary record, bringing forth fascinating clues as to the ritual practices, beliefs, social structures and individual identities of Elam's lowland and highland inhabitants. Enmeshed with its neighbours, yet in many ways culturally distinct, Elam receives its due treatment here as a core component of the ancient Near East.
 +([[https://www.bookdepository.com/Profiling-Death-Neo-Elamite-Mortuary-Practices-Afterlife-Beliefs-Entanglements-with-Ancestors-Yasmina-Wicks/9789004388109|table of content]])
 +
 +** Divine Hate** 
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 +//Title//: Riley, A. J., //Divine and human hate in the ancient Near East: a lexical and contextual analysis//, Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press LLC, 2019. 
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 +//Keywords//: divine emotions - QAncient Near East - feelings - human - love - anger - joy - divine realm - hate - Hebrew Bible - Yahweh - hateful - ancient deities - Canaanite gods - Ugarit - Akkadian ocuments - deities - gods 
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 +//Abstract//: Divine emotion is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Near Eastern documents. These texts regularly assign the same spectrum of feelings experienced by humans (e.g., love, anger, joy) to the divine realm. Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East: A Lexical and Contextual Analysis is a comprehensive study of divine hate. On seventeen separate occasions, the Hebrew Bible describes Yahweh as hateful. But an ascription of hate extends to more ancient Near Eastern deities than Yahweh. Canaanite texts from Ugarit and Akkadian documents also characterize their gods as hateful. The fundamental question guiding this inquiry is, is Yahweh’s hate comparable to instances of divine hate from the greater ancient Near East or is his hate different?
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 +Methodologically, Divine and Human Hate is a lexical study of Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian lexemes for hate originating in divine figures. But since the ancients expressed divine emotion with terms from their own experiences, human hate receives attention as well. Divine and Human Hate is also a contextual analysis of divine and human hate in biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian. Therefore, the book’s focus is comparing and contrasting instances of divine and human hate in biblical and cognate writings.
 +([[https://www.gorgiaspress.com/divine-and-human-hate-in-the-ancient-near-east#quickTab-TableOfContent|table of content]])
 +
 +**Ancient Near Eastern Diplomacy** 
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 +//Title//: Charpin, D., //"Tu es de mon sang": les alliances dans le Proche-Orient ancien//, Paris: Collège de France: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: Amarna correspondence - discovery - Akhenaton - origins of diplomacy - Ancient Near East - Syria - Turkey - Iraq - alliances - third to first millennium - 3rd to 1st millennium BC - synthesis - diplomatic exchanges - oaths - kings - true treaties - generations - population - sustainability of alliances - personal commitment - writing - binding agreements - - law - religion - birth of the state - Bible 
 +
 +//Abstract//: Il y a 130 ans, des paysans égyptiens découvraient par hasard des lettres adressées au pharaon Akhenaton à la fin du XIVe siècle av. J.-C. Ces tablettes en écriture cunéiforme, envoyées par les rois des régions alentours, ont ouvert une perspective passionnante sur les origines de la diplomatie dans le Proche-Orient ancien. Dans la lignée de cette trouvaille déterminante, de nombreuses fouilles menées depuis la fin du XIXe siècle en Syrie, Turquie ou Irak, ont dévoilé l’incroyable diversité des alliances conclues entre le IIIe et le Ier millénaire.
 +L’ouvrage de Dominique Charpin, issu de son enseignement au Collège de France, dresse une synthèse sans précédent sur la question des échanges diplomatiques au Proche-Orient ancien. D’abord serments prêtés entre les rois, où le geste se joint à la parole sous l’égide des dieux, les alliances deviennent de véritables traités qui courent jusqu’aux générations suivantes et s’étendent à toute la population. L’expansion et la pérennisation des alliances traduisent le passage d’un engagement personnel à un écrit qui lie toute une collectivité. Exemple fascinant de la façon dont droit et religion s’entremêlent dans le Proche-Orient ancien, les alliances sont essentielles pour comprendre la naissance de l’État ou encore la façon dont les auteurs de la Bible concevaient celle entre Dieu et son peuple.
 +([[https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/3840-tu-es-de-mon-sang|table of content]])
  
 **Red Sea & Gulf Trade**  **Red Sea & Gulf Trade** 
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 +** Fs Dittmann ** 
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 +//Title//: //Übergangszeiten: altorientalische Studien für Reinhard Dittmann anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstag//, Münster: Zaphon, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: materiality - suffering - animals - Tepe Sohz - Neolithic - Jordanian arid zones - anthropomorphic figurine fragment - Prastio Mesorotsos - sedentism - Cyprus - society - change - late Neolithic period - early Bronze age - southern Levant - Uruk period - glyptic - violence - interpretation - silence - noise - archaeological understandings  - early dynastic “kudurru“ FMB 27 - palaeography - dating - new Proto-Elamite seal impression - Tappeh Sofalin - Central Iranian Plateau - Akkadian-style seal impression - Ur - intimate relations - Mesopotamian Mistress of the Animals - Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν - Münster - cuneiform texts - Assur - Anatolia - Temenos - Ur - Third Dynasty - Kassite Period - Old Assyrian - Šarra-mātā/ēn - Šarru-mātim - scales - loops - Bronze Age - Kangurttut burial ground - death - dying - Sumerian - poem - Kirtu - love - love song - Ḥurriya - Tešub - bulls - Ḫattuša - glazed Iron Age pottery - Northern Mesopotamia - offerings - shining sun - Šamaš - Shamash - 
 +Teʾumman’s Last Supper - Ashurbanipal’s Garden Party - Assyrian narrative art - Neo-Assyrian scale armour - Ziyaret Tepe - high drawbar - Neoassyrian - chariot - Neo-Babylonian - Achaemenid - Beirut - Phoenician - Roman - history - profile - vines - wine - early Christianity - Assur - Khalifan-district - Kurdistan - Kelišin-stela - Sindh - Swat valley - Pakistan
 +
 +//Abstract//: Dreißig Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache sind dem Archäologen Reinhard Dittmann (Universität Münster) gewidmet. Sie bieten eine breitgefächerte Auswahl an Themen der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie und der Assyriologie, von neolithischen und chalkolithischen Zeiten bis zum frühen Christentum im nördlichen Iraq, von Zypern im Westen bis zum Iran im Osten. ([[https://www.zaphon.de/uebergangszeiten-2|table of content]])
 +
 +
 +** Alphabetic Writing in Babylonia ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Bloch, Y., //Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: Sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods//, Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2018.
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 +//Keywords//: Late Babylonian period - alphabet - scribes - scribalcy - sēpiru - specialists - alphabetic writing - cuneiform - Babylonian temples - state administration - private business - ethnic background - 
 +
 +//Abstract//: This book treats the alphabet scribes in Mesopotamia in the Late Babylonian period (6th-5th centuries BCE). Bloch defends the understanding of the term sēpiru as a designation of alphabet scribes, discusses the functions of sēpiru professionals in Babylonia, and discusses their ethnic origins, with special attention to the participation of Judeans in Babylonia in this profession. The monograph includes translations of over 100 Late Babylonian economic, legal, and administrative documents. ([[https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/534674|table of content]])
 +
 +** Melammu Symposia 9 ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Fink, S. and R. Rollinger, //Conceptualizing past, present and future : proceedings of the ninth symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Helsinki / Tartu May 18-24, 2015//, Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: Narratives - Herodotus - “Liberalizing Persia” - Herodot - Babylon - interpretation - emotions - perceptions - visual images - quoted speech - conceptualisation of history - Neo-Assyrian Eponym Lists - Eponym Chronicles - Babylonian chronicles - historiographical texts - style - historical-ideological background - ideology - authorship - motivation - chronicle - past - present - history - politics - Adad-narari - Sumerian kingship - Sumer - stereotypes - Late Old-Babylonian period - Camillus - Concordia and the libri lintei - Rome - Late Republic - Early Principate - reconstruction - Classical Historography - genre - problem of genres - Achaemenid sources - author - audience - Sitz im Leben - reception - gemstones - Gilgamesh - Gilgameš - authors of king lists - King List - hero - villain - dynasties - narrative traditions - presocratics - Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology - cosmogony - Burkert - Homer - Babylonian cosmogony - Babylonian Creation Myths - Cosmogonic Monism - India - Greece - Mesopotamia - abstraction - Sumerian ontologies - Neo-Assyrian Empire - ethnicity - language - identities - asceticism - autism - Marduk - origins - beginnings - Gyges - Croesus - Lydian history - Lydia - Plato - flood - 
 +
 +//Abstract//: This book contains the proceedings of the 9th Melammu Symposium which took place in Helsinki and Tartu from May 18-24, 2015. The meeting was part of Robert Rollinger's "Finland Distinguished Professorship", a position he held from 2010-2015 at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki where he was Research Director of the project "Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East". One of the major tasks of this position was to revitalize the Melammu Project, thus encouraging international, transdisciplinary research in studies of the Ancient World. The 9th Melammu Symposium was a kind of final event of the "Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East" project which was conceptualized, planned, and organized by the two editors of this volume together with an international committee of renowned scholars who were in charge of the different thematic sessions of the meeting. The dense program of the conference consisted of 42 papers and 15 poster-presentations, which, in particular, enabled young scholars to present their research to an international audience of specialists in different fields. The main aim of this specific Melammu Symposium was to foster collaboration between Classicists and Assyriologists. Accordingly, we conceptualized eight thematic sessions, which were organized by two session organizers, one of them a classicist, the other an Assyriologist (or Hittitologist). In addition, a general session and a young researcher's workshop took place. The session organizers invited the participants for their sessions and discussed the topics with them. All the sessions were framed by a general introduction to the topic and a response to the papers by the session organizers. ([[http://melammu-project.eu/symposia/sypr09cont.pdf|table of content]])
 +
 +
 +** Mémoires de N.A.B.U. 19 ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Chambon, G., //Parution de Florilegium marianum XV.: Les archives d'Ilu-kân : gestion et comptabilité du grain dans le palais de Mari//, Antony (France): Société pour l'étude du Proche-Orient ancien, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: Mari - Mari palace - accounting - accounting texts - 1850–1600 BC - Mari official - Ilu-kân - administration - administrative texts - receipt - deliveries - grain - administrative terms - terminology - transactions - accounting practices - measuring - recording - material culture - scribal culture - social context
 +
 +** Ancient Sealing Practices ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Marta Ameri, M., Kielt Costello, S., Jamison, G., and S. Jarmer Scott, //Seals and sealing in the ancient world: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia//, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 
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 +//Keywords//: Ancient Near East - Egypt - Ancient South Asia - Aegean - 4th-2nd millennium BC - seals - sealing practices - social systems - political systems - economy - ideology - ancient world - ancient societies - description - documentation - chronology - dynasty - history - administration - administrative function - iconography - style - context - production - use - identity - gender - social life - artisans -producers - seal cutters - cross-culturalism - interdisciplinary approach - material culture 
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 +//Abstract//: Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE. 
 +([[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/seals-and-sealing-in-the-ancient-world/14D43FC6B71F285C96A1A0F60A3A405C#contents|table of content]])
 +
 +** Bronze Age Maritime Trade (in the Eastern Mediterranean) ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Knapp, B., //Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean//, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: seafaring - seafarer - seascapes - merchants - mariners - pirates - material aspects - mobility - connectivity - risk - journeys - knowledge - experience - navigation - travel - distance - access - exotic - identities - ideologies - shipwrecks - ports - harbours - maritime transport containers - ships’ representations - boat models - stone anchors - fishing - fishing equipment - travel - communication - Levant - Egypt - Cyprus - Anatolia - 3rd millennium BC - Aegean - Late Bronze Age - after 1700/1600 BC - eastern Mediterranean - economic epicentre - monopolies - thalassocracies - networks - economic exchange - social exchange - maritime trade 
 +
 +//Abstract//: Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600 BC), seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean made the region an economic epicentre, one in which there was no place for Aegean, Canaanite or Egyptian trading monopolies, or ‘thalassocracies’. At that time, the world of eastern Mediterranean seafaring and seafarers became much more complex, involving a number of different peoples in multiple networks of economic and social exchange.
 +
 +This much is known, or in many cases widely presumed. Is it possible to trace the origins and emergence of these early trade networks? Can we discuss at any reasonable level who was involved in these maritime ventures? Who built the early ships in which maritime trade was conducted, and who captained them? Who sailed them? Which ports and harbours were the most propitious for maritime trade? What other evidence exists for seafaring, fishing, the exploitation of marine resources and related maritime matters?
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 +This study seeks to address such questions by examining a wide range of material, documentary and iconographic evidence, and re-examining a multiplicity of varying interpretations on Bronze Age seafaring and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west to Cyprus. The Aegean world operated on the western boundaries of this region, but is referred to more in passing than in engagement. Because the social aspects of seafaring and transport, the relationship different peoples had with the sea, and the whole notion of ‘seascapes’ are seldom discussed in the literature of the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, this volume devotes significant attention to such factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies, and much more.
 +([[https://www.sidestone.com/books/seafaring-and-seafarers-in-the-bronze-age-eastern-mediterranean#contents|table of content]])
 +
 +** Mesopotamian Medicine ** 
 +
 +//Title//:  Fales, F. M., and F. Minen, //La medicina assiro-babilonese//, Roma: Scienze e Lettere, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: introduction - introductory manual - medicine - Mesopotamia - medical texts - ancient medicine - Assyrian-Babylonian - late 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - Italy - popular - history - technologies - living conditions - antiquity - West - East  traditional medicine 
 +
 +//Abstract//: Questo libro rappresenta un manuale introduttivo a più voci sulla medicina dell’antica Mesopotamia, basato sulla lettura e interpretazione di testi in grafia cuneiforme e in lingua assiro-babilonese del tardo II e soprattutto del I millennnio a.C. Il volume, che non ha alcun precedente o parallelo in Italia, è concepito ad uso di un pubblico di lettori abituali e a vasto raggio, soprattutto interessato alla storia, tecnologie e condizioni di vita nell’Antichità.
 +Per la sua tematica vasta e articolata e per la molteplicità degli spunti storico-culturali, il presente volume è fruibile e di stimolo anche per cultori di fasi più recenti della storia della medicina, in Occidente come in Oriente, per esperti di quelle medicine tradizionali ed etniche tuttora praticate in molte aree del mondo e, infine, per specialisti di area medico-scientifica odierna. 
 +([[http://www.scienzeelettere.it/book/49958.html|table of content]])
 +
 +** Urkesh in the Syrian War** 
 +
 +//Title//: Buccellati, G., Ermidoro, S., and Y. Mahmoud, //I millenni per l'oggi. L'archeologia contro la guerra: Urkesh di ieri nella Siria di oggi//, Firenze : Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2018. 
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 +//Keywords//: archaeological site - Syria - war - Urkesh - Tell Mozan - prode - protection - preservation - activities - dynamics - communities - social groups - destruction - violence - intentional iconoclasm - iconoclastic movements - source of hope - populations vicinity - project - model - sensitivity - archeology - discipline - value of territory - tradition
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 +//Abstract//: Il libro, come la mostra a cui si accompagna, presenta la sorte del tutto particolare di un sito archeologico in Siria durante i recenti sette anni di guerra. L'antica città di Urkesh, oggi Tell Mozan, nella Siria nord orientale, è diventata un focolaio di attività che sviluppano, attorno al sito archeologico, una forte e inaspettata sinergia fra una varietà di comunità e gruppi sociali. In forte contrasto con la violenza distruttrice della guerra e di intenzionali e perversi movimenti iconoclastici, Urkesh è emerso come una fonte di speranza e un motivo di orgoglio per le popolazioni che vi gravitano attorno. In questa prospettiva, il progetto è anche diventato un modello di quella nuova sensibilità che l'archeologia come disciplina sta sviluppando - la sensibilità, cioè, per il valore del territorio come elemento portante in comune fra gli antichi e chi oggi vi abita. 
 +([[https://www.academia.edu/37269004/I_millenni_per_loggi._Larcheologia_contro_la_guerra_Urkesh_di_ieri_nella_Siria_di_oggi|table of content]])
 +
 +** The Archaeology of the Old-Assyrian Trade ** 
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 +//Title//: Palmisano, A., //The Geography of Trade: Landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period//, Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. 
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 +//Keywords//: Old Assyrian period - 1970 – 1700 BC - trading - colony - Kaneš - Kaniš - Kültepe - Upper Mesopotamia - Central Anatolia - social - economic - political dynamics - Bronze Age - pre-modern trade - networking - network - settlement - archaeology - material culture - comparison - spatial perspective - exchange - strategies - economy - economic - trade routes - circuits - political landscape 
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 +//Abstract//: From the mid-20th century onwards, consolidated study of the merchant archives from the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kaneš (Kültepe) has not only transformed our understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of the Bronze Age Near East, but also overturned many preconceived notions of what constitutes pre-modern trade. Despite this disciplinary impact and archaeological investigations at Kültepe and elsewhere, our understanding of this phenomenon has remained largely text-based and therefore of limited analytical scope, both spatially and contextually. This book re-assesses the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1970 – 1700 BC) by combining in some analytical detail the archaeology (e.g. material culture, settlement data, etc.) of the region both on its own terms and via a range of spatial approaches. The author offers a comparative and spatial perspective on exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East in the Middle Bronze Age.
 +([[https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/DMS/4C94721B0AA14C8A927AA5A277115F45/9781784919252-GeographyofTrade-Palmisano-Contents.pdf|table of content]])
 +
 +** Nebuchadnezzar I in the Collective Memory ** 
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 +//Title//: Nielsen, J. P., //The reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in history and historical memory//, London: Routledge, 2018. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: Nebuchadnezzar I - Isin II period - Babylonia - independence - cult sanctuaries - priesthood - military campaigns - Assyria - Elam - return of the statue of Marduk - stories - utilisation - scholarly tradition - historiography - tradition - collective memory - memory creation - Babylonian scholars - historical memory - collective identity - Marduk’s rise - primacy - pantheon - 1st millennium BC - urban elite - power - symbolism - symbol - effect 
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 +//Abstract//: Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and the emergence of a new, independent Babylonian monarchy in the last quarter of the 7th century. His dynamic reign saw Nebuchadnezzar active on both domestic and foreign fronts. He tended to the needs of the traditional cult sanctuaries and their associated priesthoods in the major cities throughout Babylonia and embarked on military campaigns against both Assyria in the north and Elam to the east. Yet later Babylonian tradition celebrated him for one achievement that was little noted in his own royal inscriptions: the return of the statue of Marduk, Babylon’s patron deity, from captivity in Elam.
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 +The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar reconstructs the history of Nebuchadnezzar I’s rule and, drawing upon theoretical treatments of historical and collective memory, examines how stories of his reign were intentionally utilized by later generations of Babylonian scholars and priests to create an historical memory that projected their collective identity and reflected Marduk’s rise to the place of primacy within the Babylonian pantheon in the 1st millennium BCE. It also explores how this historical memory was employed by the urban elite in discourses of power. Nebuchadnezzar I remained a viable symbol, though with diminishing effect, until at least the 3rd century BCE, by which time his memory had almost entirely faded. This study is a valuable resource to students of the Ancient Near East and Nebuchadnezzar, but is also a fascinating exploration of memory creation and exploitation in the ancient world.
 +([[https://www.routledge.com/The-Reign-of-Nebuchadnezzar-I-in-History-and-Historical-Memory/Nielsen/p/book/9781138120402#toc|table of content]])
 +
 +** Chronology of Late Bronze Age Northern Syria ** 
 +
 +//Title//: Otto, A. (ed.) //From Pottery to Chronology: The Middle Euphrates Region in Late Bronze Age Syria. Proceedings of the International Workshop in Mainz Germany, May 5-7, 2012//, Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 2018. 
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 +//Keywords//: chronology - relative chronology - absolute chronology - chronological anchor points - Late Bronze Age - 15th-13th century BC - Northern Syria - Upper Syrian Euphrates area - Emar - Tall al-Qitar - Tall Munbaqa - Umm el-Marra - Tall Bazi - pottery - ceramics - stratification - stratified ceramic material - dating - methodology - pottery sequence - parallels - settlement - criteria - internal criteria - datable objects - written documents - inscriptions - seals - tools - weapons - imported pottery - radiocarbon analysis - comparison - consistencies - differences - reliability - Tablet Building - Hadidi 
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 +//Abstract//: This volume is the result of an "International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th Century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbaqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi." It took place on May 5-7, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz. The need for the workshop was felt by the excavators of the mentioned sites, because a considerable number of LBA sites has been investigated in the Upper Euphrates area by now, but the relative and absolute chronology of most sites is still a matter of debate. The workshop in Mainz tried to tackle the problem of the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates region with the most simple and obvious method. The excavators and pottery specialists of the relevant sites were for the first time brought together. Each team was asked to present its stratified ceramic material and to explain their methods of dating: had the pottery sequence been dated by parallel with another settlement? If so, with which settlement? Or had the stratified material been dated by internal criteria, by written documents or by other well datable objects such as seals, tools and weapons, imported pottery or others? Or had it been dated by radiocarbon or other scientific analyses? The defined aim, which was circulated among the participants in advance, was "By putting together and by comparing the relevant stratified material, it should be possible to discern the consistencies and differences within the material and the reasons for them." It was hoped that the date of the relevant levels and of the various destructions would become evident, when the reliability of the dating of the 'Tablet Building' at Hadidi to the 15th century was questioned and when each mission laid open its own dating methods, thereby avoiding the circularity of assumptions that had hitherto prevailed. This was not only achieved, but it was also able to establish new chronological anchor points for the Upper Euphrates valley. 
 +([[https://www.pewe-verlag.de/res/liber29-argumentum.pdf|table of content]])
 +
 +** The Combat between the Storm-God and the Sea in the Hebrew Bible ** 
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 +//Title//: Töyräänvuori, J., //Sea and the combat myth: North West Semitic political mythology in the Hebrew Bible//, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2018. 
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 +//Keywords//: North West Semitic - myth - mythology - iterations - transformation - transfer - longevity - historic reality - Sea - Storm God - Sargon - Sargonic Empire - Amorites - Amorite Kingdom period - Hebrew Bible - sources - antecedents - symbolism - symbolic combat - polytheism - polytheistic Pre-Exilic kingship - monarchic institutions - Iron Age - Palestine - Israelite kingship - crisis - monarchy - power - legitimacy - tradition - cultural sphere - democratisation 
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 +//Abstract//: Sea and the Combat Myth examines the political use of the ancient North West Semitic myth of divine combat between the Storm-God and the Sea. The myth originated with the rise of the Sargonic Empire and was disseminated across ancient Near Eastern polities during the Amorite Kingdom period. Vestiges of the myth have also been retained in the Hebrew Bible: a myth of symbolic combat between the Storm-God and the Sea was likely used as a foundational myth by the mostly polytheistic Pre-Exilic kingship in Palestine. The study demonstrates how the myth was used in ancient North West Semitic societies to resolve the crisis of monarchy through appeal to numinous legitimacy, and how reading a selection of Biblical texts in the framework of the tradition confirms the use of the myth in the same context in the emergent Palestinian kingdoms of the Iron Age.  
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 +Most of what is known of Israelite kingship and the monarchic institution is largely based on later and ideologically slanted material, making the comparison of Biblical texts to their antecedents necessary. The book discusses references to the myth in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the relevant witnesses from relevant ancient Near Eastern traditions. Different iterations of the combat myth witness to the continuation, longevity, malleability, and the capacity of the myth to transform to suit changing historical realities. In contrast to previous research, the study demonstrates three distinct sources for the Biblical traditions in addition to living local iterations of the myth. In addition to vestiges retained in the Hebrew Bible, based on the analogy of preceding, concurrent, and continuing traditions in the shared cultural sphere, the accumulation of mythic traditions suggests that it was used in the Palestinian kingdoms to resolve the crisis of monarchy and to legitimize sovereign political rule. After the end of the Jerusalem monarchy, the myth was democratized and reforged to legitimize the existence of the people of Israel.
 +([[https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10309326/TOC|table of content]])
  
 ** Fs Stefan Zawadzki **  ** Fs Stefan Zawadzki ** 
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 //Title//: Koliński, R., Prostko-Prostyński, J., and W. Tyborowski, //Awīlum ša la mašê - man who cannot be forgotten : studies in honor of Prof. Stefan Zawadzki Presented on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Alter Orient Und Altes Testament)//, Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2018.  //Title//: Koliński, R., Prostko-Prostyński, J., and W. Tyborowski, //Awīlum ša la mašê - man who cannot be forgotten : studies in honor of Prof. Stefan Zawadzki Presented on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Alter Orient Und Altes Testament)//, Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2018. 
  
-//Keywords//: Festschrift - Stefan Zawadzki - Djämi Nab Yunis - shrine - prophet Jonah - Nineveh - Assyrian diaspora - Israelites as a - challenge - Biblical studies - Assyriology / goddesses - royal inscriptions - kings - Isin - Larsa - epistolography - Late Babylonian trial letters - Stanislaw Staszic - Egyptology - knowledge - attendants - participants - Hittite king - king’s funeral - Post-Assyrian period - Eastern Assyria - NBC 4847 - growth - herd - cattle 4 years - marital questions - marriage - Emar - Abyssinia - Ethiopia - India - tablets - fragments - Kültepe - Athens - Jerusalem - Jewish - Greek - interculturality - interculturalism - C. Iulius Asper - Senator Probus - Syriac chronicle - Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor +//Keywords//: Festschrift - Stefan Zawadzki - - shrine - prophet Jonah - Nineveh - Assyrian diaspora - Israelites - Biblical studies - Assyriology / goddesses - royal inscriptions - kings - Isin - Larsa - epistolography - Late Babylonian trial letters - Stanislaw Staszic - Egyptology - knowledge - attendants - participants - Hittite king - king’s funeral - Post-Assyrian period - Eastern Assyria - NBC 4847 - growth - herd - cattle 4 years - marital questions - marriage - Emar - Abyssinia - Ethiopia - India - tablets - fragments - Kültepe - Athens - Jerusalem - Jewish - Greek - interculturality - interculturalism - C. Iulius Asper - Senator Probus - Syriac chronicle - Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor 
  
 //Abstract//: ([[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Awilum_Sa_la_Mase_Man_who_Cannot_be_Forg.html?id=Nz1WuwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |table of content]]) //Abstract//: ([[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Awilum_Sa_la_Mase_Man_who_Cannot_be_Forg.html?id=Nz1WuwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |table of content]])
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 +
 +** Rituals and Prayers ** 
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 +//Title//: Meinhold, W., //Ritualbeschreibungen und Gebete II//, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2017.
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 +//Keywords//: rituals - prayers - protection - evil - communication - gods - favour - luck - health - Babylonian-assyrian cuneiform texts - descriptions - therapies - eyes -ears - illness - sickness - amulets - magic - ban - rules - visit - palace - rites - enemy - borders - approach - Assyria - Assur - Neo-Assyrian - “Haus des Beschwörungspriesters” -Assur temple 
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 +//Abstract//: Rituale und Gebete dienten im Alten Orient als Mittel zur Abwehr von Unheil verschiedener Art. Mit ihrer Hilfe sollte ein gutes Einvernehmen mit den Göttern hergestellt werden, von denen man Glück, Gesundheit und Schutz vor dem Zugriff unheilvoller Machte erhoffte. Der Band stellt 65 babylonisch-assyrische Keilschrifttexte mit Beschreibungen solcher Rituale und Gebeten vor: Darunter finden sich Beschreibungen von Therapien, welche die Heilung von Augen- und Ohrenleiden sowie anderen Gebrechen in Aussicht stellen, Anweisungen für Liebeszauber, Verfahren zur Abwehr von drohendem Unheil und Schadenzauber, Regeln für einen Besucher des Palastes, um mit Amuletten und Zaubersprüchen den Erfolg seiner Anliegen zu befördern, Handlungsanleitungen für Riten, die dafur sorgen sollten, dass sich der Feind den Grenzen des Landes nicht näherte, die Beschreibung einer Liturgie, in deren sakramentalem Rahmen sich das von Menschen gemachte Götterbild in die Gottheit selbst verwandelte und vieles andere mehr. Alle hier in Bearbeitung und Kopie publizierten Tontafeln wurden wahrend der Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in der assyrischen Hauptstadt Assur gefunden. Die genaue Fundstelle innerhalb der Stadt ist leider oft nicht mehr zu ermitteln. Viele der neuassyrischen Texte durften jedoch aus dem sogenannten "Haus des Beschwörungspriesters" stammen. Fur die Mehrzahl der mittel- und frühneuassyrischen Tafeln kann man eine Herkunft aus den Ruinen des Assur-Tempels vermuten. 
 +
 +
 +** Viticulture in Anatolia ** 
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 +//Title//: Thys-Senocak, L. (ed), //Of Vines and Wines: The Production and Consumption of Wine in Anatolian Civilizations through the Ages//, Leuven: Peeters, 2017. 
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 +//Keywords//: wine - wine production - wine consumption - viticulture - Anatolia - Thrace - Neolithic period - civilisation - archaeological remains - textual evidence - documents - texts -  archival texts - historical texts - works of art - records - chroniclers - chronicles - ethnographic data - ethnography - migration - demography - demographic patterns - advertising - legislation - contemporaneity - legacy - cultural heritage 
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 +//Abstract//: This volume explores the long, rich traditions of viticulture and wine production in Anatolia and Thrace, from the Neolithic era to the present day. Chapters by ten contributing authors illustrate the important and varied roles that viticulture has played in the Anatolian region, and how the vine and wine have shaped the civilizations of Anatolian peoples for millennia. Examining archaeological remains, archival and historical texts, works of art, the records of chroniclers, ethnographic data, migration and demographic patterns, and contemporary legislation and advertising, the ten authors collectively reveal the importance of wine production and consumption in Anatolia's past, and demonstrate why its legacy of tangible and intangible cultural heritage should be valued in the present, and protected in the future. 
 +([[http://www.peeters-leuven.be/toc/9789042934481.pdf|table of content]])
 +
 +**Warfare in the Ancient Near East** 
 +
 +//Title//: Trimm, C., //Fighting for the King and the Gods: A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East//, Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017. 
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 +//Keywords//: history - ideology - warfare - war - Ancient Near East - viewpoints - victors - victory - battles - hardship - suffering - Ramses II - Hittites - Qadesh 
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 +//Abstract//: Fighting for the King and the Gods provides an introduction to the topic of war and the variety of texts concerning many aspects of warfare in the ancient Near East. These texts illustrate various viewpoints of war and show how warfare was an integral part of life. Trimm examines not only the victors and the famous battles, but also the hardship that war brought to many. While several of these texts treated here are well known (i.e., Ramses II's battle against the Hittites at Qadesh), others are known only to specialists. This work will allow a broader audience to access and appreciate these important texts as they relate to the history and ideology of warfare.
 +([[https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/060394P-front.pdf|table of content]])
 +
 **Rituals at Doors and Gates**  **Rituals at Doors and Gates** 
  
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 ===== 2015 ===== ===== 2015 =====
 +
 +** Hurrian Texts from Emar ** 
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 +//Title//: Salvini, M., //Les textes hourrites de Meskéné/Emar//, Roma: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2015. 
 +
 +//Keywords//: cuneiform texts - Hurrian - Emar - divination - divinatory texts 
 +
 +//Abstract//: L'ouvrage, en deux volumes, constitue l'editio princeps des textes cuneiforms en langue hourrite (XIII siecle av. J.C.) provenant des fouilles francaises dirigees par Jean-Claude Margueron a Meskene, l'ancienne Emar, sur l'Euphrate syrien, au cours des campagnes des annees 1972-1975. Les tablettes sont conservees au Musee d'Alep, avec les documents ecrits en akkadien publies par Daniel Arnaud. Leur contenu, essentiellement divinatoire, comporte de nombreuses abreviations cryptees qui en rendent l'interpretation difficile. Le style, le vocabulaire et la grammaire de ces textes appartenant a une langue non semitique et non indoeuropeenne, presentent de grandes differences avec les autres archives hourrites connues, notamment celles provenant de Bogazkoy et la "letter du Mittanni". Un lexique comparatif avec la documentation hourrite attestee et propose. 
  
 **Sea Peoples’ Pottery** **Sea Peoples’ Pottery**
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