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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East

Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 924

The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8574-1
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-9294-7
Subject AreaAncient History
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Robert Rollinger ORCID - Irene Madreiter ORCID - Martin Lang - Cinzia Pappi ORCID

The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East - complete volume

doi: 10.1553/978OEAW85741

Preliminaries

Table of Content

List of Abbreviations

page 13

Programme

page 19

Robert Rollinger ORCID - Irene Madreiter ORCID - Martin Lang - Cinzia Pappi ORCID

Preface

page 43

Simonetta Ponchia

Greetings

page 47

Simo Parpola

The Beginnings and Progress of the Melammu Project

page 53

Josef Wiesehöfer

Ancient History and the Ancient Near East: Comments of an Ancient Historian

page 61

Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Assyriological Approaches Towards a History of Religion of Mesopotamia

page 73

Manfred Bietak

L’architecture sacrée, clef des origines de l’élite Hyksôs

page 137

Mary R. Bachvarova

Methodology and Methods of Borrowing in Comparative Greek and Near Eastern Religion: The Case of Incense-Burning

page 175

Daniel Beckman

On a Possible Assyrian Source of the Achaemenid Demand for “Earth and Water”

page 191

Sabine Böhme

A Glance into Walter Andrae’s Designing of the Vorderasiatische Museum, Today’s Museum of the Ancient Near East in the Pergamonmuseum Berlin

page 207

Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira

Crossing the Barriers of Cultural Prejudgment about “West & East”: A Dialogic Exercise on Sumerian and Roman Abstract Thought and Semiotics Based on the Rural Cosmos

page 219

Georg Fischer S.J.

Esteem and Irony – The Primeval History’s Use of Ancient Near Eastern Motifs

page 251

Immanuel Freedman

The Intellectual Heritage of Babylonian Astronomy: Music of the Spheres

page 263

Hilmar Klinkott

The Siege of Cities: Transfer of Poliorcetics from Mesopotamia to Greece?

page 283

Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider

Hymns in Stone? Palmyrene Dedications to “Blessed-(be)-his-Name-Forever” and their Ancient Origins

page 309

Gabriela Kompatscher

Human-Animal Studies in History

page 323

Natalie N. May

An Ideal City in the Ancient World: Knowledge from Mesopotamia and the Ways of its Transcultural Dissemination

page 339

Francesca Minen

It’s an Ill Wind! Air, Health and Sickness in Assyro-Babylonian Medicine and Beyond

page 359

Eckart Otto

The Intellectual Heritage from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Achaemenids in the Western Reception History of the Book of Deuteronomy in the 16th and 17th Century

page 381

JoAnn Scurlock

From SA.GIG to Ovid’s Metamorphoses

page 391

Rolf Strootman

Memories of Persian Kingship in the Hellenistic World

page 407

Luigi Turri

Gilgamesh on the Couch: The Mesopotamian Hero and Psychoanalysis

page 431

František Válek

Culture Transfer in Light of Seth, Baˁal and Their Relationship

page 443

Andréa Vilela

Of Dogs and Medicine in Mesopotamia and Beyond

page 459

Marcus Ziemann

The Revelatory Journey Motif in the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh

page 477

Netanel Anor

Babylonian Seers as Medical Practitioners

page 493

Stéphanie Anthonioz

Enūma eliš and the Priestly Narrative: Shared Scribal Practices

page 501

Zsombor J. Földi

Prosopography of Old Babylonian Documents from Larsa: On Seal Inscriptions, the King’s Name and the So-Called “Double Filiation”

page 517

Susanne M. Hoffmann - Manfred Krebernik

What do Deities Tell us about the Celestial Positioning System?

page 539

Michael Kozuh

Meat, Mesopotamia, and Modernity: A New Approach to the Study of Meat in Mesopotamia

page 579

Jana Matuszak

Humour in Sumerian Didactic Literature

page 597

Adel Nemirovskaya

Egyptian-Fashioned Use of Logograms in the Canaanite Amarna Letters: A Case of “The Jerusalem Scribe”

page 613

Véronique Pataï

The Professional Practice of the Scribes of Nuzi: A Prosopographical Investigation

page 629

Lukáš Pecha

The Collective and Individual Legitimacy of Royal Power

page 649

Marco Ramazzotti

Complementary Grammars for the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (AANE): Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, Historical Geography and the Modern Geographies of the Past

page 661

Tonia M. Sharlach

Over the Mountains: The Movement of Goods and People between Mesopotamia and Elam in the 21st Century BCE

page 679

Ana Arroyo

Working Hypothesis for the First Writing and Written Transmission of Hittite Rituals

page 693

Joost Blasweiler

Evidence to Place the City of Purušhanda at Acemhöyük

page 715

Peter Dubovský

The Role of Emissaries (ṣīrāni) in the Assyrian Administrative Machinery: What should an Emissary Learn about Assyria?

page 751

Josette Elayi

The Assyrians as Seen by the Phoenicians

page 783

Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar

Herrschaft durch Emotion ‒ Fallbeispiele aus dem hethitischen Schrifttum

page 801

Miklós Kerekes

Factors Influencing the Neo-Assyrian Provincial System of Anatolia

page 815

Lidewij E. van de Peut

The Rise and Fall of the Hymn in Hittite Literature

page 831

Drahoslav Hulínek - Eva Hulínková Ťuchová

The SAHI Tell Jokha Archaeological Project: Campaign 2016–2017

page 849

Marco Iamoni - May Haider - Luigi Turri

The Northern Lebanon Project and the Tripoli/Koura Area During the Second and First Millennia BCE: A Preliminary Assessment of the Settlements and Historical Evidence

page 869

Bernhard Schneider

The Materiality of the Foundation of the Ur III Ekur at Nippur

page 881

Index

page 893