“I Passed over Difficult Mountains”: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Mario Liverani

Francesco Di Filippo; Lucio Milano; Lucia Mori

doi:10.5771/9783963272417

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-96327-240-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-96327-241-7
Publisher: Zaphon, Münster
Series: dubsar / Altorientalistische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East
Volume: 28
Language: English
Pages: 436
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Prefazione No access
“The Heroic Age of Assyriology: ”An Unpublished Manuscript of Archibald H. Sayce at The Queen’s College, Oxford No access Pages 1 - 18
In Search of Meaning: Ramesses II in his Court of the Luxor Temple No access Pages 19 - 30
Three Amarna Notes: Scribal Training, Scribal Hands and Tablet Provenance No access Pages 31 - 48
City-States, Canton States, Monarchy and Aristocracy: The Political Landscape of the Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia within the Context of the Eastern Mediterranean (11th–9th century BCE) No access Pages 49 - 78
The Materiality of the Cuneiform Tablets and the Puzzle of the Hittite Historical Geography No access Pages 79 - 86
The “Eastern Turkey in Asia”: A Digital Edition of the Map Series IDWO 1522 No access Pages 87 - 100
Archaeology in the Sahara: Before and after the “Arab Spring” No access Pages 101 - 108
Factions, Fictions and Frictions: Assurbanipal’s Letters to the Babylonian Citizens No access Pages 109 - 130
Some Reflections on the Nişantaş Inscription and Related Issues No access Pages 131 - 152
Adapa at Khorsabad: Interpreting the “Grand Royal Emblem” No access Pages 153 - 180
Barley and Sheep in Kululu (Central Anatolia, late 8th century BC) No access Pages 181 - 196
The “Fields of the Town”: On the Shape of Public Land in Late Bronze Age Ekalte No access Pages 197 - 216
Different Degrees of Empathy: On the Mobility of Images in Ancient Mesopotamia No access Pages 217 - 232
Some Thought about the Tell Halaf Reliefs: A Neo-Syrian Cycle of Carvings between Tradition and Innovation No access Pages 233 - 264
Peering through the Door: A Note on the Functions and Relations of the atû in Neo-Assyrian Society No access Pages 265 - 288
Myth and Politics Continued: The Ideological Discourse of Lagash and Ebla on a Cultural Continuum No access Pages 289 - 312
“Canine Instincts and Monkeys’ Features”: Animal and Demonic Traits in the Construction of “Otherness” in Sumerian Literature No access Pages 313 - 328
Glosses in three El-Amarna Letters (EA 107, 108 and 124) No access Pages 329 - 338
Oriental Despotism, the Enlightenment’s Evil Twin No access Pages 339 - 376
Ištēnūtu, tāpalu and ṣimittu: Accounting and Material Culture in the Near East No access Pages 377 - 424