Kultur – Kontakt – Kultur
Beiträge anlässlich der 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Frankfurt/Main und Mainz, 25.–29. Juli 2022- Editors:
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- Series:
- dubsar / Altorientalistische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East, Volume 35
- Publisher:
- 2025
Summary
Originally scheduled for 2020 at the Universities of Frankfurt and Mainz, the 66th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale—following a hiatus caused by the pandemic—took place in Mainz in July 2022 under the title "Culture | Contact | Culture." The present volume collects 34 articles derived from the papers presented at the conference. As is well known, the Ancient Near East has at all times been an "open space" where the paths of numerous groups have intersected throughout the ages. Natural routes of communication channeled movement, while geographically favorable zones characterized the regions where different population groups encountered one another. Cultural contact is multifaceted and can leave diverse traces in material culture, social practices, societal structures, and—naturally—in language. Until now, topics such as trade, migration, nomadism, and many others have generally been discussed in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies as separate phenomena. Conversely, the underlying mechanisms of cultural contact and "contact culture" have rarely been examined and their full scope remains far from being fully explored—despite the clear fact that a culture acquires its distinct contours only through contact with "the Other" and with other cultures. The conference focused not only on interregional encounters; intracultural contacts—such as those between marginalized social groups and established communities—were also addressed in the presentations, as reflected in the written and material records.
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- Edition
- 1/2025
- Copyright Year
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-96327-288-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-96327-289-9
- Publisher
- Zaphon, Münster
- Series
- dubsar / Altorientalistische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East
- Volume
- 35
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 610
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Inhaltsverzeichnis No access
- Vorwort No access
- A Pre-Islamic Cultural Trade Center in the South-East Arabian Peninsula No access Pages 1 - 16Authors: |
- Enter the Crown Prince: Revisiting the Seventh Century BCE Encounter Between Assyria and Egypt No access Pages 17 - 32Authors:
- La « globalisation » cananéenne ou une communauté technique illusoire: Analyse comparée des traditions laminaires « post-Uruk » de Mésopotamie de nord (cultures de Ninive V et de la Plain Simple Ware, EJZ 1–2, c. 2950–2600 BC) No access Pages 33 - 58Authors:
- The Influence of the Assyrian Culture in the Iron Age Northern Levant No access Pages 59 - 82Authors:
- Walk About the City and See its Walls: An Allusion to the Epic of Gilgameš in Psalm 48? No access Pages 83 - 96Authors:
- “Great Festivals” and “Regular Festivals" in the Hittite Cult Calendar No access Pages 97 - 116Authors: |
- Us Against the Others? How the Figure of the Enemy was Built up in the Middle-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions No access Pages 117 - 132Authors:
- The King of Kussara Made “the Sons of the City Nesa Mothers and Fathers” An Example of how Clans merged in Central Anatolia during the MBA Period No access Pages 133 - 140Authors:
- Wagen, Waffen und Varia: Lexikalische Beobachtungen zu den Texten aus Haft Tappeh, Areal I No access Pages 141 - 156Authors:
- Craftsmen in the Ebla Texts: Professional Contacts during the 24th Century BC No access Pages 157 - 176Authors:
- Ashurbanipal’s Library of Alexandria No access Pages 177 - 190Authors:
- From Iconography to Icon: The Image of the Hittite Great King and Hittite Soldiers in the Egyptian Reliefs and Texts of the New Kingdom No access Pages 191 - 210Authors:
- Making Sense of Compositions: A Computational Approach to Old Babylonian Presentation Scenes No access Pages 211 - 226Authors: |
- The Oman Peninsula and the Gulf Trade of the Early Third Millennium BCE No access Pages 227 - 240Authors:
- Old Babylonian Seal Prayers No access Pages 241 - 254Authors:
- Adoption and Adaptation of Writing Systems in Ancient Societies: The Cases of Urartian and Mycenaean No access Pages 255 - 278Authors: |
- The Touch in Gilgamesh No access Pages 279 - 296Authors:
- Culture Contact in Ancient Southwest Asia: Concepts and Case Studies No access Pages 297 - 318Authors:
- Observations on the Distribution of 2MSG Stative Variants in Old Babylonian Text Genres No access Pages 319 - 332Authors:
- Šavoška and Anzili: A Comparison of Two Hittite IŠTAR-Goddesses No access Pages 333 - 346Authors:
- Šiluhlu and Assyrians No access Pages 347 - 354Authors:
- The Use of ZÀ.HI.LI in the Context of Destruction and Curse: A Possible Case of Contact Between Assyrian and Hittite Literary Traditions No access Pages 355 - 370Authors:
- Linguistics and Lexicography in Contact: Cut, Break, and Hit Verbs in Sumerian No access Pages 371 - 386Authors:
- An Analysis of the “Dahamunzu/Zannanza Affair” According to the Cognitive Narratology, the Text World Theory and the Possible Worlds Theory No access Pages 387 - 398Authors:
- Cultures in Contact – the Inhabitants of Tell el-Dab‘a/Avaris No access Pages 399 - 434Authors:
- A Story of Goods and Services: Some Clues for Understanding the Relationship Between Mari and Hazor During the Old Babylonian Period No access Pages 435 - 454Authors: |
- A New Nabû: The Disruption and Renewal of the Assyrian Cuneiform Network No access Pages 455 - 468Authors:
- Cuneiform in Contact: Or, How the Hittites Learned to Pray No access Pages 469 - 496Authors:
- Assyria and Babylonia: Clash of Civilizations or Cultural Koiné? No access Pages 497 - 514Authors:
- “Ahnenkult” and the AN.DAḪ.ŠUM Festival, Day 18, for the Storm-god of Lightning No access Pages 515 - 528Authors:
- Neo-Assyrian Kings’ Perceptions of Assyrian and Non-Assyrian (Royal) Authority No access Pages 529 - 544Authors:
- Cišpiš / Šišpiš / Teispes / Zišpiš: Old Iranian or Elamite? No access Pages 545 - 564Authors:
- Borrowing, Translation, and Syncretism of Deities in Ancient Anatolia No access Pages 565 - 578Authors: |
- How to Treat Verbs in a Sumerian Dictionary No access Pages 579 - 594Authors:
