Text and image : proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, 22-26 June 2015 / edited by Pascal Attinger [and ten others] ; editorial layout by Sabine Ecklin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Attinger, Pascal, 1952- editor.

Ecklin, Sabine, contributor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Rencontre assyriologique internationale (61st : 2015 : Geneva, Switzerland; Bern, Switzerland), author.

Series:

Orbis biblicus et orientalis. Series Archaeologica ; 40.

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica ; 40

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Middle Eastern philology.

Assyriology.

Civilization.

Middle East--Civilization--To 622--Congresses.

Middle East.

Assyriology--Congresses.

Middle Eastern philology--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 526 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, maps, plan ; 33 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2018.

Language Note:

36 contributions in English, 8 contributions in French, and 5 contributions in German.

Summary:

This book contains the proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, which was held in Geneva and Bern in Switzerland from 22nd until 26th June 2015. The overarching conference theme "Text and Image" addressed a topic of fundamental importance for historical research on ancient Near Eastern cultures and societies. The aim of the conference was to stimulate an interdisciplinary dialogue between the closely related, but increasingly diverging disciplines of Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology. Fifty-one articles are published in three languages, including contributions to the main topic and to a number of workshops organized in the context of the RAI, as well as reports on an extraordinary session devoted to cultural heritage.

Contents:

Opening sessions. Hommage à Pierre Amiet : Écrit et image dans l'Antiquité orientale/ Ariane Thomas

Bridging the gap : in retrospect and in prospect / Nicholas Postgate. Papers. Quelques contrats de commandes d'étoffes à Nuzi / Philippe Abrahami et Brigitte Lion

Demonization of enemies in Mesopotamian literature : a case study in verbal imagery / Nikita Artemov

Identifying the big bird in the battle reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II / Mehmet-Ali Ataç

Composite creatures on seal impressions of Nuzi / Benedetta Bellucci

Herméneutique de l'action pour l'étude des relations entre les entités animées et leur agency au Proche-Orient ancien: Hypatia et alii / Vanessa Bigot Juloux

The divine "image" and "shadow" in iconography, inscriptions and philology / Daniel Bodi

La cuisse de Baal : analyse d'un rituel d'intégration / Daniel Bonneterre "Of marshes, kings, and rebels" : on the perception and representation of southern Mesopotamian wetlands at the Neo-Assyrian royal court / Sebastian Borkowski

Bemerkungen zur vermittelnden Gottheit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der sumerischen Königshymnen / Manuel Ceccarelli

Beschriftete Hundestatuetten aus Mesopotamien / Nicolas A. Corfù und Joachim Oelsner

An overview on the excavations at Üçtepe Höyük (ancient Tušḫan) : the 1988-1992 excavation seasons / Şevket Dönmez

"I was swollen with hunger and he kept me alive" : the imagery of the legal texts from Emar / Lena Fijałkowska

The Nuzi apprenticeship contracts / Jeanette C. Fincke

Decreeing fate and name-giving in enūma eliš : approaching a fundamental Mesopotamian concept with special consideration of the underlying assumptions and of the condition of possibility of human knowledge / Gösta Gabriel

Dating the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes Gérard Gertoux

Une nouvelle archive privée d'un marchand de l'époque d'Ur III / Ari Kh. Kamil

Text als Bild : Graphic Reading am Beispiel der sumerischen Rangstreitgespräche / Fabienne Kilchör und Catherine Mittermayer

Gilgameš's ghosts : a case for Enkidu's Catalog of the Dead as a manual for apprentice exorcists / John A. Lynch

Le rapport entre texte et image dans les reliefs de Ḫorsābād : tradition et innovation un siècle et demi après Assurnaṣirpal II / Paolo Matthiae

Text and architecture: YBC 5022 and BM 15285 as "manuals of an architect" / Natalie N. May

Construire l'image, dire les rites : essai sur l'iconographie des rituels hittites / Patrick M. Michel

Estimation and observation : a study of two Old Babylonian tabular administrative documents / Robert Middeke-Conlin

The movement of text and image within the layout of an envelope throughout Mesopotamian history / Bonka Nedeltschevaxes 'If the earth quakes...': The Nuzi text SMN 3180 / Paola Negri Scafa

Questions of text and image in ancient Samʼal (Zincirli) / Herbert Niehr

Dolmens in the Amuq Plain: Kızılkaya survey / Aynur Özfırat

Textes et images à Nuzi : le cas du scribe Itḫ-apiḫe fils de Taya / Véronique Pataï

Representations of steles in the palace glyptic of Early Syrian Ebla / Frances Pinnock

Tigridian royal representation : text and image between tradition and innovation / Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Ships bringing timber for the palace of Sargon : alternative presentations of reality / Julian Edgeworth Reade

Identification through image and legend : inscribed seals from Kültepe lower town level II / Melissa Ricetti

Showing off: Old Babylonian "goddess in a structure" plaques revisited / Elisa Rossberger^^^e movement of text and image within the layout of an envelope throughout Mesopotamian history / Bonka Nedeltschevaxes "Dieser Ziegel ist wie Lapislazuli..." : ein bisher übersehenes Bauritual im Kontext der frühen sumerischen Beschwörungen / Nadezda Rudik

Enūma eliš meets the so-called Babylonian Map of the World : an image and its text / JoAnn Scurlock

Step by step : correcting our mental image of the mušlālu / Alexander E. Sollee and Johanna Tudeau

Ninĝirsu, Ninurta und Sirius in sumerischem Kontext / Marie-Louise Thomsen

All the king's adamindugas : textual images of Ur III sovereigns as managers of the universe / Luděk Vacín

Hittites in North-Central Anatolia : a compilation of the current evidence / Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt. Workshop : International Relations theory and Ancient Near Eastern history. Introduction to the workshop International Relations theory and Ancient Near Eastern history / Selim F. Adalı and Lucas G. Freire

Balances of power in the Hatti-Egypt-Mittani system (1400-1300 B.C.) / Serdar Ş. Güner System and society: The Near East in the second millennium BCE / Lucas G. Freire

Reconsidering international relations in Southwest Asia during the Late Bronze Age / Emanuel Pfoh

A Near Eastern states system before the classical period : comparing the Greek poleis system with ancient Near Eastern state formation / Alex Aissaoui

What is policy impact? Questioning narratives of political events in the last century of the Assyrian Empire / Selim F. Adalı. Extraordinary session : Strategies for restoration and reconstruction : museums, heritage sites and archaeological parks in post-war countries / Cynthia Dunning, Mohamad Fakhro, Denis Genequand, Mirko Novák.

Notes:

Errata sheet inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789042937130

9042937130

OCLC:

1046070112