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Format: 1 online resource (632 p.)

ISBN: 9781575063584

Series Statement: Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Content: In July, 2011, the International Association for Assyriology met in Rome, Italy, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East”. This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains more than 40 of the papers read at the 57th annual Rencontre, including 3 plenary lectures/papers, many papers directly connected with the theme, as well as a workshop on parents and children. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The attendees were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Foreword -- , Abbreviations -- , Program -- , Part 1 Opening Lectures -- , Rückwärts schauend in die Zukunft: Utopien des Alten Orients -- , Law and Literature in the Third Millennium b.c. -- , The Soul in the Stele? -- , Part 2 Papers -- , Myth and Ritual through Tradition and Innovation -- , A Tale of Twin Cities: Archaeology and the Sumerian King List -- , Where are the Uruk Necropoles? Regional Innovation or Change in Tradition for Northern Mesopotamia -- , Changes Through Time: The Pit F Sequence at Ur Revisited -- , Reading Figurines from Ancient Urkeš (2450 b.c.e.) A New Way of Measuring Archaeological Artifacts, with Implications for Historical Linguistics -- , Wooden Carvings of Ebla: Some Open Questions -- , The Aesthetic Lexicon of Ebla’s Composite Art during the Age of the Archives -- , DUGURASU = rw-ḥꝪwt -- , More on Pre-Sargonic Umma -- , Professional Figures and Administrative Roles in the Garden (ĝeškiri6) Management of Ur III Ĝirsu -- , Tradition and Innovation in Šulgi’s Concept of Divine Kingship -- , Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Beschwörungen des Marduk-Ea-Typs: Die Rolle Enlils -- , Prophecy in the Mari Texts as an Innovative Development -- , Mathematical Lists: From Archiving to Innovation -- , Die lexikalische Serie á=idu -- , The Rituals of Power: The Akkadian Tradition in Neo-Assyrian Policy -- , Innovation and Tradition within the Sphere of Neo-Assyrian Officialdom -- , Tradition and Innovation in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs -- , Une Armure Expérimentale du Premier Millénaire av. J.-C. -- , A Group of Seals and Seal Impressions from the Neo-Assyrian Colony Tell Masaikh- Kar-Assurnasirpal with More Ancient Motifs -- , Spätbabylonische Urkunden: Original, Kopie, Abschrift -- , Traditional Claims of an Illustrious Ancestor in Craftsmanship and in Wisdom -- , New Phraseology and Literary Style in the Babylonian Version of the Achaemenid Inscriptions -- , Aspects of Royal Authority and Local Competence: A Perspective from Nuzi -- , Continuity and Discontinuity in a Nuzi Scribal Family -- , Mission at Arrapḫa -- , Geopolitical Patterns and Connectivity in the Upper Khabur Valley in the Middle Bronze Age -- , Writing Sumerian in the West -- , Territorial Administration in Alalaḫ during Level IV -- , Reciprocity and Commerce in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia -- , Hittite Clitic Doubling as an Innovative Category: Its Origin -- , Memory and Tradition of the Hittite Empire in the post-Hittite Period -- , Fortifications and Arming as Analytical Elements for a Social-Policy Evolution in Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age -- , Amurru in der königlichen Ideologie und Tradition: von Ebla bis Israel -- , The Assyrian Tree of Life and the Jewish Menorah -- , The Ponderal Systems of Qatna -- , French Excavations in Qasr Shemamok-Kilizu (Iraqi Kurdistan): The First Mission (2011) -- , The Present in Our Past: The Assyrian Rock Reliefs at Nahr El-Kalb and the Lessons of Tradition -- , Oriental Studies and Fascism in Spain -- , Part 2 Workshop: From Parents to Children -- , From Parents to Children: Ebla -- , Family Firms in the Ur III Period -- , A Chip Off the Old Block: The Transmission of Titles and Offices within the Family in Old Babylonian Sippar -- , The Tradition of Professions within Families at Nuzi -- , Crafts and Craftsmen at Ugarit -- , Hereditary Transmission of Specialized Knowledge in Hittite Anatolia: The Case of the Scribal Families of the Empire Period -- , The Transmission of Offices, Professions, and Crafts within the Family in the Neo-Assyrian Period -- , Families, Officialdom, and Families of Royal Officials in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781575063584

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575063584