57th RENCONTRE ASSYRIOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONALE

Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East

Sapienza – Università di Roma 4-8 July 2011

PROGRAMME

Sunday 3rd

Ara Pacis (via di Ripetta / Lungotevere in Augusta), 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. REGISTRATION and VISIT (entrance for the visit: until 6 p.m.)

Monday 4th

Museo dell’Arte Classica (building: Lettere e Filosofia)

9:00 a.m.      REGISTRATION (continuation)

Aula Magna, Rettorato WELCOMING SESSION

10:00 a.m. Prof. Luigi Frati, Rector of Sapienza – Università di Roma

Prof. Marta Fattori, Dean, Sapienza – Università di Roma

Prof. Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) President of the IAA

OPENING SESSION

Chairperson Irene J. Winter (Harvard University)

10:30-11:00 a.m. Claus Wilcke (Universität Leipzig) Law and literature in the 3rd millennium B.C. and beyond

11:00-11:30 a.m. Stefan Maul (Universität Heidelberg) Rückwärts schauend in die Zukunft – Utopien des Alten Orients

11:30-12:00 a.m. John David  Hawkins (British Academy) The soul in the stone?

(lunch break)

Building: Lettere e Filosofia

AULA I

PHILOLOGY 1

Chairperson: Jerrold S. Cooper (The Johns Hopkins University)

14:15-14.45 p.m. Joan Goodnik Westenholz (ISAW, New York) Tradition and innovation in the legendary corpus of the Akkadian kings

14:45-15:15 p.m. Dina Katz (Leiden University) Myth and ritual – from tradition to innovation and back

15:15-15:45 p.m. Jakob Klein (Bar-Ilan University) The stars (of) Heaven and cuneiform writing

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

16:15-16:45 p.m. John Wee (Yale University) Lugalbanda in the mountain cave: an early Mesopotamian model of celestial healing

16:45-17:15 p.m. Petr Charvat (University of West Bohemia) A tale of  twin cities – archaeology and the Sumerian King List

17:15-17:45 p.m. Xianhua Wang (Peking University) The ideological innovation of Lugalzagesi

AULA ODEION

PHILOLOGY 2

Chairperson: Mario F. Fales (Università di Udine)

14:15-14.45 p.m.            Melanie Groß (Universität Wien)            Innovation and tradition within the sphere of Neo-Assyrian officialdom

15:45-15:15 p.m.            Peter Dubovsky            (Pontifical Biblical Institute)Neo-Assyrian intelligence network: old tradition reshaped by the Sargonic kings

15:15-15:45 p.m.            Raija Mattila (University of Helsinki)            Late eponyms – Signs of change in the ideology and administration of the Neo-Assyrian empire

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

16:15-16:45 p.m.            Frauke Weiershäuser (Universität Heidelberg)           Lexical Tradition and Schooltexts in Assur

16:45-17:15 p.m.            Eleanor Robson            (Cambridge University)Scholarly literacies in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia

17:15-17:45 p.m.            Amitai Baruchi-Unna (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Haifa University)            Formularies vs. creativity.Traces of administrative documents in Assyrian royal inscriptions

AULA PARTENONE

ARCHAEOLOGY

Chairperson:   Stefania Mazzoni (Università di Firenze)

14:15-14.45 p.m. Gudrun Colbow (University of Queensland)   Water deities in Ancient Mesopotamian art

15:45-15:15 p.m. Elizabeth Wheat (University of Birmingham) Labyrinths in Babylonia and the Ancient Near East

15:15-15:45 p.m. Astrid Verhulst (Ghent University) It’s all relative: Old Babylonian Sippar seals as markers of family tradition

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

16:15-16:45 p.m. Maria Sologubova (Saint-Petersburg State University) Tradition and innovation in Mesopotamian glyptic of Kassite times

16:45-17:15 p.m. Karen Sonik (New York University) Symmetry, frontality, and small gods: a unique tradition of representation in the Old Babylonian terracotta reliefs?

17:15-17:45 p.m. Chikako Watanabe (Osaka Gakuin University) An innovation approach to tracing environmental changes in ancient Mesopotamia: Echohistory of salinisation and aridification in Iraq

19:45 p.m. Caffè delle Arti (via Gramsci 73):  Reception

TUESDAY 5th

AULA I

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: T.J.H. Krispijn (Leiden University)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Salvatore Monaco More on pre-Sargonic Umma

9:45-10:15 a.m. Richard E. Averbeck (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Temple estate and clan region in Gudea’s Lagash

10:15-10:45 a.m. Ludek Vacin  (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Tradition and innovation in Shulgi’s concept of divine kingship

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

Chairperson: Grant Frame (University of Pennsylvania)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Manuel Ceccarelli (Universität Tübingen) Einige Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Beschwörungen des ‘Marduk-Ea-Typs’: die Rolle Ellils

11:45-12:15 a.m. Vladimir Emilianov  (St.-Petersburg State University) Formula of Isin hymns as the source of the dating of Sumerian narrative compositions

12:15-12:45 a.m. Simonetta Ponchia (Università di Verona) Composition and hermeneutics: looking for elaboration strategies in Assyro-Babylonian literary texts

(lunch break)

Chairperson: Brigitte Groneberg (Universität Göttingen)

14:15-14:45 p.m. Gabriel Gösta Ingvar (Universität Göttingen) The rise of Marduk in enuma elish between tradition and innovation

14:45-15:15 p.m. Anastasia Moskaleva (Saint Petersburg State University)Protective formula in Mesopotamian royal inscriptions (III-II mil. BC)

15:15-15:45 p.m. Rosel Pientka-Hinz (Universität Marburg) Dances with snakes

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

16:15-16:45 p.m. Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)  Literary Arrest and Movement in Old Babylonian Schooling

16:45-17:15 p.m. Katrien De Graef  (Ghent University) Cherchez la femme!Brotherhood adoption in Susa and elsewhere reconsidered

17:15-17:45 p.m. Lotte Oers (Ghent University) Pledge of Suseans – Babylonian tradition and Elamite innovation concerning economic security in Old Babylonian Susa

17:45-18:15 Ilya Arkhipov (Russian Academy of Sciences) La notion de šurubtum (mu-DU) dans la comptabilité paléobabylonienne

AULA ODEION

ARCHAEOLOGY

Chairperson: Barbara Nevling Porter (Casco Bay Assyriological Institute)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Aaron Schmitt (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Tradition und Wandel in Assyrien am Beispiel der Ischtar-Tempel in Assur

9:45-10:15 a.m. Maria Gabriella Micale (Sapienza – Università di Roma)  Images of architecture in Neo-Assyrian reliefs: perception and reproduction of architectural space over three centuries

11:15-11:45 a.m. David Kertai (Universität Heidelberg) Sleeping through change. The king’s suite in Late Assyrian royal palaces

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:45-11:45 a.m. Nicolas Gillmann (UMR) Innovation and tradition in Neo-Assyrian iconography

11:45-12:15 a.m. Paola Poli (Università di Ferrara) A group of seals and seal impressions from the Neo-Assyrian colony Tell Masaikh-Kar-Assurnasirpal with ancient motifs

12:15-12:45 Silvana Di Paolo (ICEVO-CNR) Urartu vs. Assyria: reconsidering concepts of imitation, emulation, interpretation in Art

(lunch break)

Chairperson

14:15-14:45 p.m. Jesús Gil Fuensanta (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Where are the Uruk necropolis? Regional innovation or change in tradition?

14:45-15:15 p.m. Giacomo Benati (Università di Torino) Changes through time: the Pit F sequence at Ur revisited

15:15-15:45 p.m. Rick Hauser (IIMAS) Reading figurines: animals representations in terra cotta from Urkesh, the first Hurrian capital (2450 BCE)

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

Chairperson

16:15-16:45 p.m. Enrico Ascalone (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Awan vs Akkad. Origin and formation of an Elamite style and iconography

16:45-17:15 p.m. Ann Shafer (The American University in Cairo) The present in the past: the Nahr el-Kalb reliefs and the continuity of tradition?

17:15-17:45 p.m. Nicolò Marchetti (Università di Bologna) Diachronic changes in the Bronze and Iron Ages occupation patterns at Tasli Geçit Hoyuk (Islahiye,Turkey)

17:45-18:15 p.m. Luigi Turri (Università di Udine) The ponderal system(s) at Qatna

AULA VETRI

OFFICINA: FROM PARENTS TO CHILDREN

9:15-9:30 a.m. Alfonso Archi (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Presentation and Ebla

9:30-10:00 a.m. Steven Garfinkle (Western Washington University) Family firms in the Ur III Period

10:00-10:30 a-m Michel Tanret (Ghent University) Old Babylonian Sippar and the transmission of titles/crafts within families

10:30-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

Chairperson: Michel Tanret (Ghent University)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Jeanette Fincke  (Leiden University) Profession and Family in Nuzi

11:45-12:15 a.m. Wilfred van Soldt (Leiden University) Crafts and craftsmen at Ugarit

12:15-12:45 a.m. Giulia Torri (Università di Firenze)  Hereditary transmission of specialized knowledge in Hittite Anatolia

(lunch break)

Chairperson: Jeanette Fincke (Leiden University)

14:15-14:45 p.m. Heather Baker (Universtität Wien)  In my father’s footsteps?The transmission of offices, professions and crafts within the family in the Neo-Assyrian period

14:45-15:15 p.m. Michael Jursa / Klaus Wagensonner (Universtität Wien)Families, officialdom and families of officials in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: Francis Joannes (Université de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne)

15:15-15:45 p.m. Daniel Bodi (Université de Strasbourg) The traditional claims of an illustrious ancestor in craftmanship and in wisdom

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffe break)

16:15-16:45 p.m. Jonathan Taylor (The British Museum) Neo-Babylonian copies of ancient inscriptions

16:45-17:15  Jürgen Lorenz (Universität Marburg) Spätbabylonische Urkunden: Original, Kopie, Abschrift

17:15-17:45 Claus Ambos (Universität Heidelberg) The foundation legend of the hellenistic temple of Anu in Uruk – invention of tradition or historical fact?

17:45-18:15 p.m. Malgorzata Sandowicz (University of Warsaw) Nebuchadnezzar II the reformer

WEDNESDAY 6th

AULA I

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: Marten Stol (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Christopher Frechette (Boston College School of Theology and Ministry) Textual evidence for shu-íl-lá as signifying a formal gesture communicating submission and loyalty to the deity

9:45-10:15 a.m. Marina Redina (Russian Academy of Science) Kassite administrative documents: traditional and innovative aspects

10:15-10:45 a.m. Susanne Paulus (Universität Münster) Ein außergewöhnlicher Text aus der frühen Kassitenzeit

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Herbert B. Huffmon (Drew University) Prophecy in the Mari texts as an innovative development

11:45-12:15 a.m. Stefan Jakob (Universität Heidelberg) Die Beharrlichkeit des Erinnerns

12:15-12:45 a-m. Christine Proust (CNRS & Université Paris Diderot)Mathematical catalogues and series texts: from archiving to the exploration of new problems

(lunch break)

Chairperson: Herbert Niehr (Universität Tübingen)

14:15-14:45 p.m. Alvise Matessi (Università di Pavia) The territorial administration of the LBA kingdom of Mukish (Alalah IV): state, society and geography, in further comparison with the situation of Alalah VII (MBA)

14:45-15:15 p.m. JoAnn Scurlock  (Elmhurst College) Death and the maidens: continuity in change at Ugarit

15:15-15:45 p.m. Matthew Rutz (Brown University) Tradition, contact, innovation: communities of languages, script and text in Late Bronze Age Syria

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffe break)

16:15-16:45 p.m. Maurizio Viano (Università di Torino) Writing Sumerian in the West

16:45-17:15 p.m. Marie-Françoise Besnier (Cambridge University) The Divination Series šumma alu in Sultantepe and Nimrud, in comparison with the Nineveh and Aššur Manuscripts

17:15-17:45 Greta van Buylaere (Cambridge University) Huzirina revisited: An Assyrian scribal school in Aramaic territory

17:45-18:15 p.m. Pamela Barmash (Washington University in St. Louis) Scribal education and legal terminology

AULA ODEION

EBLA AND SYRIA

Chairperson: Michael Roaf (Universität München)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Paolo Matthiae (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Cult architecture at Ebla between Early Bronze IVA and Middle Bronze I. Continuity and innovation in the formative phase of a great tradition

9:45-10:15 a.m. Frances Pinnock (Sapienza – Università di Roma) From Ebla to Guzana: the image of power in Syria between the Bronze and Iron Age

10:15-10:45 Rita Dolce (Università di Roma Tre) Tradition and innovation  in the wooden carvings of Ebla: an open  question

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Luca Peyronel (IULM Milano) Urban planning and spatial distribution of industrial activities at Ebla. Some reflections on continuity and change between the Early and Old Syrian Period

11:45-12:15 a.m. Marco Ramazzotti (Sapienza – Università di Roma) The aesthetical lexicon of Ebla’s composite art during the age of the archives. An innovative visual representation of words and concepts inside the Early Dynastic technology of the images

12:15-12:45 a.m. Licia Romano (Sapienza – Università di Roma) The queen and the veil. Analysis of the Eblaite votive plaque

(lunch break)

Chairperson: Francesca Baffi (Università del Salento)

14:15-14:45 a.m. Andrea Polcaro (Università di Perugia) The bone talisman and the ideology of ancestors in Old Syrian Ebla: tradition and innovation in the royal funerary ritual iconography

14:45-15:15 p.m.  Sara Pizzimenti (Sapienza – Università di Roma) A hare in the land of lions. Analysis and interpretation of the leporid symbol in Ebla and its relationship with the Old Syrian Culture

15:15-15:45 p.m. Maria Giovanna Biga (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Tradition and innovation in the foreign politics of Ebla kingdom in the archives period

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffe break)

16:15:16:45 p.m. Alessandro Roccati (Università di Torino) The northern borders of Egypt in the 3rd Millennium BC

16:45-17:15 p.m. Marta D’Andrea – Agnese Vacca (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Syria and Palestine at the end of the Early Bronze Age: confronting regional narratives

17:15-17:45 p.m. Feyssal Abdallah (Université de Damas) L’innovation de l’histoire cunéiforme de Damas à la lumière de deux nouvelles textes récemment trouvés à Damas

17:45-18:15 Alessio Palmisano (University College London) Geo-political patterns and connectivity in the Upper Khabur in the Middle Bronze Age

AULA VETRI

OFFICINA: SUMERIAN AKKADIAN LINGUISTIC

Chairperson: Paul Delnero  (The Johns Hopkins University)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Walther Sallaberger  (Universitä München) Change and innovation in the Sumerian lexicon in the Third Millennium

9:45-10:15  Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University)  Change and continuity: the case of the Sumerian enclitic copula -am₆/am₃

10:15-10:45 a.m.  Paul Delnero (The Johns Hopkins University) The Sumerian verbal prefixes mu-ni- and mi-ni-

10:45-11:15  (coffee break)

Chairperson: Christian Hess (Universität Leipzig)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Gábor Zólyomi (Eötvös L. University) How to teach a website to Sumerian

11:45-12:15 a.m. Szylvia Sovegjarto (Eötvös L. University)  Getting on the equative’s case

12:15-12:45 a.m. Kamran Zand (Universität Heidelberg) How a scribe learned to read ‘Writings from before the Flood’

(lunch break)

Chairperson: Walther Sallaberger (Universitä München)

14:15-14:45 p.m.  Leonid Kogan (Russian State University Moscow) and Manfred Krebernik (Universität Jena) The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian: presentation of a project

14:45-15:15 p.m.  Sergey Loesov (Russian State University Moscow) The Akkadian stative: is it ‘young’ or ‘old’?

15:15-15:45 p.m.  Christian Hess (Universität Leipzig) Lexical innovations in Middle Babylonian literature

15:45-16:15 p.m. (coffee break)

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: Niels Heeßel (Universität Heidelberg)

16:15-16:45 p.m. Mogens Trolle Larsen (University of Copenhagen) Innovation and change in Old Assyrian society

16:45-17:15 p.m. Shigeo Yamada (University of Tsukuba) New adoption contract from Tell Taban and the Hana-type scribal tradition

17:15-17:45 p.m. Denis Lacambre (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3) After the death of Samsî-Addu: the eponym Ennam-Assur (KEL G 84) in Chagar Bazar(Ashnakkum)

17:45-18:15 a.m. Massimo Maiocchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Continuity and change in Third Millennium calendrical systems: the issue of the intercalary month in the Sargonic sources

THURSDAY 7th

AULA I

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: Karlheinz Kessler (Universität Würzburg)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Jaume Llop Raduà (Universitat de Barcelona) The implantation of the Middle Assyrian provincial system

9:45-10:15 a.m. Sabina Franke (Universität Hamburg) Der Kultsockel des Tukulti-Ninurta

10:15-10:45 a.m. Paola Negri Scafa (ENEA) Continuity and discontinuity in a Nuzi scribal family

10:45-11:15 (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Dave Deuel (The Masters Academy International) Letters in administrative mission at provincial Arrapha

11:45-12:15 a.m. Anne Löhnert (Universität München) Aspects of royal authority and local competence. The case of Nuzi

12:15-12:45 a.m.  Pierre Bordreuil  Les textes en cunéiforme alphabétique de Ras Shamra-Ougarit 1994-2002: quelques données nouvelles

AULA ODEION

ANATOLIA

Chairperson: Massimo Forlanini

9:15-9:45 a.m. Vladimir Shelestin (State Academic University Moscow) Hittite-Kizzuwatnean relations reconsidered: traditions and innovations in the Late Old Hittite geopolitical thought

9:45-10:15 a.m. Craig Melchert (University of California, Los Angeles) Reciprocity and commerce in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia

10:15-10:45 Andrey Sideltsev (Russian Academy of Sciences) Clitic doubling in Hittite?

10:45-11:15 (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 Maria Elena Balza – Clelia Mora (Université de Limoges – Università di Pavia)   Memory and tradition of the Hittite empire in post-Hittite period

11:45-12:15 Fernando Escribano Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)   Il Dio della tempesta: tradizione e innovazione in un dio principale. Un esempio di sincretismo

12:15-12:45 Erik van Dongen (University of Helsinki) The overland route: intra-Anatolian interaction, ca. 1100-540 BCE

AULA VETRI

OFFICINA: ARTISANS AND PROFESSIONS IN THE UR III PERIOD

Chairperson: Hartmut Waetzoldt (Universität Heidelberg)

9:15-9:45 a.m.  Walter Sallaberger (Universität München) The social context of crafts in the Ur III empire and Early Mesopotamian traditions

9:45-10:15 a.m. Lorenzo Verderame (Sapienza – Università di Roma) Sculptors and statues in Neo-Sumerian sources

10:15-10:45 Paola Paoletti  (Universität München) Footwear in the 3rd millennium BC: its administration, veriety and tecniques

10:45-11:15 (coffee break)

Chairperson: David I. Owen (Cornell University)

11:15-11:45 a.m. J. Cale Johnson (Freie Universität Berlin) The legal function of the mashkim and the origins of bilateral documentation in Ur III administrative practice

11:45-12:15 a.m. Christina Tsouparopoulou (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Leather workers, carcass disposers, storeroom officials or just more bureaucrats?

12:15-12:45 a.m. Angela Greco (Sapienza – Università di Roma – Freie Universität Berlin)  Professional figures and administrative roles in the garden management of Ur III Girsu

UNIVERSITÀ PONTIFICIA GREGORIANA (Piazza della Pilotta)

14:30-17:30 p.m. GENERAL MEETING

17:30-19:00 p.m.  MERCATI DI TRAIANO (via 4 Novembre 144): visit in groups (starting from 17:00 p.m.)

19:15-21:30 CONVENTO DI SANTI XII APOSTOLI (piazza Santi XII Apostoli 51):Reception

FRIDAY 8th

AULA I

PHILOLOGY

Chairperson: Jack M. Sasson (Vanderbilt University)

9:15-9:45 a.m. Michele Maggio (Universität Heidelberg) L’ornamentation des dieux à l’époque paléo-babylonienne: tradition et innovation

9:45-10:15 a.m. Martin Worthington (SOAS, London) Some comments on the mechanism of textual change

10:15-10:45 a.m. Mikko Luukko (University College London) Standardisation and variation in the introductory formulas in Neo-Assyrian letters

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:15-11:45  a.m. Krysztof Ulanowski (University of Gdansk) The ritual of power. The Akkadian tradition in Neo-Assyrian policy

11:45-12:15 a.m. Caroline  Waerzegger (University College London) The loss of native kingship in Mesopotamia

12:15-12:45 a.-m. Parsa Daneshmand New phraseology and literary style in the Babylonian version of the Achaemenid inscriptions

AULA ODEION

ARCHAEOLOGY

Chairperson:

9:15-9:45 a.m. Fabrice De Backer (Université Catholique de Louvain / Université de Strasbourg) An experimental armour from the Early 1st millennium BC

9:45-10:15 a.m. Elynn Gorris (Université Catholique de Louvain) Musical instruments at Tell Tweini (Syria)

10:15-10:45 a.m. Olivier Rouault – Maria Grazia Masetti- Rouault (Université Lyon 2 – École Pratiques des Hautes Études) Recent researches in the Erbil region: 2011 excavations in Qasr Shemamok – Kilizu (Iraqi Kurdistan).

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Tommaso De Vincenzi  (Sapienza – Università di Roma)Fortifications and arming as analytical elements for a social-policy evolution in Anatolia in early Bronze Age

AULA VETRI

IDEOLOGY

Chairperson:

9:15-9:45 a.m. Daniel Bonneterre (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) Entre tradition et innovation, le voyage royal sur l’eau

9:45-10:15 a.m. Pavel Cech (Charles University Prague)            Amurru in der königlichen Ideologie und Tradition: von Ebla bis Izrael

10:15-10:45 a.m. Christos G. Karagiannis (University of Athens) The Assyrian Tree of Life and the Jewish menorah

10:45-11:15 a.m. (coffee break)

11:15-11:45 a.m. Agnès Garcia Ventura – Jordi Vidal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Oriental studies and fascism: past and present in Spanish historiography

11:45-12:15 a.m. Natia Phiphia (Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)Accademician S. Janashia and his opinion about the connection of the Kartvelians with the Hittites and the Hurrians

12:15-12:45 a.m. Anna Meshki (Gori University) The mother tongue: sources and dechipherment