Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Studies in Ancient Persia Receptions of the and the Achaemenid Period in Popular Culture and Beyond edited by John Curtis edited by Lorenzo Verderame An important collection of eight essays on and Agnès Garcia-Ventura Ancient Persia () in the periods of the This book is an enthusiastic celebration Achaemenid Empire (539–330 BC), when of the ways in which popular culture has the Persians established control over the consumed aspects of the ancient Near East whole of the Ancient Near East, and later the to construct new realities. It reflects on how Sasanian Empire: stone relief carvings from objects, ideas, and interpretations of the Persepolis; the Achaemenid period in Baby- ancient Near East have been remembered, lon; neglected aspects of biblical archaeol- constructed, re-imagined, mythologized, or ogy and the books of Daniel and Isaiah; and the Sasanian period in Iran (AD indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. 250–650) when Zoroastrianism became the state religion. 332p, illus (Lockwood Press, March 2020) paperback, 9781948488242, $32.95. 232p (James Clarke & Co., January 2020) paperback, 9780227177068, $38.00. Special Offer $27.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488259, $27.00 Special Offer $31.00; hardcover, 9780227177051, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 PDF e-book, 9780227907061, $31.00; EPUB e-book, 9780227907078, $30.99 Women at the Dawn of History The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine edited by Agnete W. Lassen Current Issues and Emerging Trends and Klaus Wagensonner edited by Rick Bonnie, Raimo Hakola and Ulla Tervahauta In the patriarchal world of ancient This book brings together leading experts in the field of ancient-synagogue , women were often studies to discuss the current issues and emerging trends in the study of represented in their relation to men. synagogues in ancient Palestine. Divided into four thematic units, the differ- But, as this volume explores, they ent contributions apply archaeological, textual, historical and art historical were also authors and scholars, methodologies to questions related to ancient synagogues. astute businesswomen, sources of 512p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, November 2020, Forschungen expressions of eroticism, priestesses zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 279) hardcover, with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents. 9783525522141, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 112p, col illus (Yale Babylonian Collection, February 2020) paperback, 9781734342000, $19.95. Special Offer $16.00 Photos courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] The Flood: The Akkadian Sources A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion by Nathan Wasserman The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the -written Akkadian sources—from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh—presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discus- sion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources. 197p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 290) hardcover, 9789042941731, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941748, $113.00 Représenter dieux et hommes When Gods Speak to Men dans le Proche-Orient ancien Divine Speech according to Textual Sources et dans la in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz, de France, Paris, les 5 et 6 mai 2015 Alice Mouton and Daniel Petit edited by Thomas Römer, Hervé This volume seeks to respond to a problem Gonzalez and Lionel Marti that has received little consideration: the What was the function of representing articulation of divine speech with the various deities and also humans in the ancient forms of its representation. The aim is to Near-East? Which were the different ways of analyze the nature of divine speech through making gods visible? What was the role of its materiality and the impact of the latter on images in the royal cult? These conference proccedings seek to shed light on the former’s definition and evolution. these questions and many more. French text. 148p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 289) 398p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 287) hardcover, hardcover, 9789042941328, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 9789042939738, $108.00. Special Offer $87.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941335, $113.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939745, $135.00 Des polythéismes aux Vielfältig geprägt monothéismes Das spätperserzeitliche Samaria Mélanges d’assyriologie offerts und seine Münzbilder à Marcel Sigrist by Patrick Wyssmann edited by Uri Gabbay This volume presents coins from the province and Jean Jacques Pérennès of Samaria in the Persian Period and the Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of imagery depicted on them. A comprehensive assyriologists for his major contribution to study of the imagery promises important the knowledge of the Ur III period, owing in insights into the region’s history and culture. particular to the transcription of thousands The monograph provides a detailed icono- of tablets that he published in various books. graphic analysis on the basis of a critical This volume is a token of esteem and gratitude. English and French text. study of the numismatic material with numerous comparisons. German text. 549p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Etudes Bibliques 82) paperback, 380p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 288) 9789042941939, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00 hardcover, 9789042941236, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941946, $144.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941243, $150.00

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Special Offer $116.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937307, $180.00 Une autre façon d’être grec / Phrygia in Antiquity: Another Way of Being Greek From the Bronze Age Interactions et productions des Grecs to the Byzantine Period en milieu colonial / Interactions and edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze Cultural Innovations of the Greeks in a Colonial Milieu The first part of this volume touches on vari- ous aspects of Midas, moving on through the edited by Michela Costanzi Achaemenid to Byzantine periods, linguistics, and Madalina Dana onomastics and epigraphy, borders, pottery, This volume embraces the activities and and architecture. The second part focuses on innovations of the Greeks in the colonial individual regions and sites from the Early milieu—by transformation of their cultural Bronze Age to the Roman Period, including heritage, by exploiting local resources, or by adapting their practices under ethnic composition, the cult of Cybele, and recent results. the influence of other Greeks. 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Weitenberg sively with the construction, significance, and function of the full range of garments edited by Uwe Bläsing, Jasmine Dum- of Aegean women and related attire of Tragut and Theo Maarten van Lint men from the Neolithic to the end of the The twenty-three studies by colleagues and Bronze Age. The study collects, analyzes former students gathered in this volume and compiles a typology of the corpus of reflect some of the depth and breadth of garments represented in sculpture, frescoes and glyptic. Weitenberg’s scholarship. 340p, illus (Peeters Publishers, August 2019, Aegaeum 38) paperback, 558p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Hebrew University Armenian Studies 9789042939554, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 15) paperback, 9789042931657, $113.00. 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Chapter VII deals with burial customs and the conception of the netherworld. 191p (Peeters Publishers, June 2020, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 287) hardcover, 9789042942127, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 PDF e-book, 9789042942134, $107.00 Sasanian Persia and the About Tweini (): Tabarestān Archive Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape edited by Rika Gyselen Research Results of the Belgian Mission Contents: World War in Eurasia at the End edited by Joachim Bretschneider of Antiquity; The Noble Ones of Eran- and Greta Jans shahr: Rank Titles and a Comparison with Tell Tweini, or ancient Gibala, represents the the Imperium Romanum. The Tabarestan southernmost harbor of the Ugaritic King- Archive (8th century) — Pahlavi Legal dom in the Late Bronze Age. As one of the Documents from Tabarestan. Two Claims few sites with a full archaeological sequence and a Re-evaluation of Crop Yields: spanning the Early Bronze Age IV up to the A Philological Study and the Juristic Iron Age III period, Tell Tweini is a key site for Context of Tab. 21, 22 and 24; Les bulles de l’Archive du Tabarestan: quelques the study of the developments in the Northern Levant, especially where the aspects matériels des scellements. English and French text. Bronze to Iron Age transition is concerned. 174p (Peeters Publishers, August 2019, Res Orientales 27) paperback, 663p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281) 9791097059019, $94.00. Special Offer $76.00 hardcover, 9789042936782, $137.00. Special Offer $110.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938809, $172.00 Scribes d’Ougarit et paléographie akkadienne Inscriptions nabatéennes datées Les textes juridiques signés de la fin du IIe siècle avant notre by Françoise Ernst-Pradal ère au milieu du IVe siècle This volume presents the results of research by Marie-Jeanne Roche on the palaeography of signed legal texts The book explores Nabataean history and discovered at Ugarit and written in ideo- society in its evolution through almost 150 syllabic cuneiform. The study focuses on inscriptions and dated papyri. It presents the question of the hands of scribes. The documents from the Nabataean kingdom, vast majority of the written documents are the large funeral inscriptions of Hegra anonymous, but the method used, based (Mada’in Saleh), those found outside the on digital photographs of the original tablets, reveals characteristics specific boundaries of the kingdom, and those dat- to the writing of each of the scribes and shows that the scribes’ hands present ing from Roman times. French text. a complex reality. French text. 465p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 279) 644p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Ras Shamra - Ougarit 27) paperback, hardcover, 9789042936874, $123.00. Special Offer $99.00 9789042941205, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938823, $154.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941212, $149.00

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Alalakh and Its Neighbours Proceedings of the 15th Anniversary Symposium at the New Hatay Museum, 10–12 June 2015 edited by K. Aslıhan Yener and Tara Ingman This volume represents the results of the symposium held in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of renewed excavations at Tell Atchana (Alalakh). It brings together results of ongoing interdisciplinary research projects conducted by the large and diverse Tell Atchana team with reflections on Alalakh’s connections to its wider social and geographical setting as discussed in the contributions of scholars working at nearby sites in Anatolia, Syria, and the Aegean. The papers here look both inward towards resolving lingering questions from Sir Leonard Woolley’s original excavations at the site, as well as new questions that have come up in the renewed excavations concerning life at Alalakh, and outward toward the city’s place in a regional context. 489p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 55) hardcover, 9789042938939, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00; PDF e-book, 9789042938946, $188.00 The Art of Empire Tell Arbid in Achaemenid Persia House and Household Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root in a Changing Town edited by Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, by Anna Smogorzewska Mark B. Garrison and Wouter F. M. Tell Arbid in northeastern Syria was a mid- Henkelman dle-sized town whose rise and expansion This volume gathers seventeen contributions was particularly dynamic in the Ninevite on Achaemenid Persian art, ranging from the V period. The exploration of house and European rediscovery of Persepolis, via Ach- household architecture, domestic features aemenid glyphic art, evidence of polychrome and artifacts from a major site in the Syr- sculpture, and Achaemenid impact in the ian Jezirah at a key period in the develop- satrapies, to possible reflections of Persepolitan art in Classical Greece. ment of the region (2550–2350 BCE) has revealed a vivid picture of the life 662p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Achaemenid History 16) hardcover, of an ancient community, its material culture, social organization, economic 9789042939219, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 resources, and daily activities at the time of its greatest development. PDF e-book, 9789042939226, $148.00 473p, illus, pls (Archeobooks, December 2019) paperback, 9788323540908, $143.00. Special Offer $115.00 Zagros Studies Stories Told Around the Fountain Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Papers Offered to Piotr Bielinski Conference and Other Research on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday on the Zagros Region The papers offered in this volume cover edited by J. Eidem issues of archaeology, iconography and cult, Zagros Studies contains nine articles on ceramics and other objects of material culture the archaeology and history of the Zagros of the Ancient Near East. The chronological Region in . Five of these were deliv- and geographical spectrum of these papers ered at a conference celebrating the 75th reflects the honoree’s core research field of anniversary of The Netherlands Institute Bronze Age Near East, concentrating on one for the Near East. The other articles pres- hand on northern Mesopotamia and on the ent results of the NINO archaeological project on the Rania Plain. other reaching out to the Gulf; his colleagues reach even further beyond, to 201p (Peeters Publishers, September 2020, PIHANS 130) paperback, , Cyprus and the Roman provinces in southeastern Europe. 9789042940550, $93.00. Special Offer $75.00 791p, illus (Archeobooks, December 2019) hardcover, 9788323541639, PDF e-book, 9789042940567, $117.00 $143.00. Special Offer $115.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 5 Building in A Philological Perspective by Johanna Tudeau This volume offers a sketch of the practice and ideology of building in Assyria based on textual evidence. The study focuses on the Assyrian royal inscriptions and state archives, two of the most comprehensive textual corpora available on the topic. The temporal and spatial framework is necessarily broad, from the rise to the fall of Assyria, and from one end of the empire to the other. This stands in contrast with a targeted terminological approach: architectural keywords structure the chapters and these follow the stages of the building process. The findings come together in a chapter devoted to the modern significance of ancient realities, where grounds for the investigation and interpretation of space are proposed. 194p (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 14) hardcover, 9783447113366, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Tell el-Burak 1: Archäologie visualisieren The Middle Bronze Age Entwicklung einer standardisierten edited by Jens Kamlah Zeichenschrift zur Analyse und and Hélène Sader Vermittlung archäologischer Funde A unique monumental building dating to und Befunde the early part of the Middle Bronze Age by Fabienne Kilchör (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) was uncovered at Tangible and intangible cultural assets the southern Lebanese coast by the joint are examined in their context for social Lebanese-German excavation project at and economic aspects of earlier societies. Tell el-Burak. The impressive architecture From this perspective, the description and of the building was exposed in eight presentation of finds and findings play a excavation seasons during the years 2001–2011. Inside the largest room of central role in making contexts visible and in understanding new findings. the Monumental Building at Tell el-Burak the excavations brought to light the This publication presents the specially developed “Diglû” font with more than sensational discovery of Middle Bronze Age mural paintings in situ on lime 400 embedded pictograms, which enables a designer independent applica- plaster covering the inner faces of its completely preserved mud-brick walls. tion and data analysis. German text. 618p, illus (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina- 218p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020, Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Vereins 45.1) hardcover, 9783447109208, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Archäologie 15) hardcover, 9783447113953, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Sirkeli Höyük Siedlungskammer Kilikien Ein urbanes Zentrum am Puruna- Studien zur Kultur und Landschafts- Pyramos im Ebenen Kilikien geschichte des Ebenen Kilikien edited by Mirko Novák, Ekin Kozal by Susanne Rutishauser and Deniz Yasin This volume presents the cultural and Sirkeli Höyük is one of the largest Bronze landscape history of the Cilician plain from and Iron Age settlement hills in Cilicia. an archaeological perspective. For this Since 2006, excavations have revealed an purpose, the available information from extensive urban landscape. The research excavations, surveys, and text archives, as objectives of the project encompass urban- well as the evaluation of remote sensing ism, chronology, and interregional cultural data are combined. German text. contacts revealed in the discoveries at this archeological site. 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6 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Enigma of the Hyksos Volume I edited by Manfred Bietak and Silvia Prell At the end of the Early Bronze Age, people were clearly on the move, settlements were abandoned and the reasons for this phenomenon, either political, economic, ecological or social in nature, are partly still mysterious. Although differentiated regional clusters are in many cases still not easy to pinpoint, it becomes clear that the Greater Levantine Area, was, despite all differences, embedded into networks of interregional connectivity most likely sustained by trade relations. This volume comprises the collected papers of two workshops that specifically aimed to gain a better understanding of the Western Asiatic populations settling in the eastern Delta of Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom to the early New Kingdom. 418p, 215 illus, 3 pls, 30 tbls, 26 maps (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 9) hardcover, 9783447113328, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00

Catalogue of Archaeological Functional Differentiation Sites. Navkūr Plain in Hittite Festival Texts This series presents the results of research An Analysis of the Old Manuscripts carried out in the Iraqi Kurdistan from of the KI.LAM Great Assembly 2012 through 2017. During this time, an by James Burgin extremely rich group of heritage monu- Through an examination of the so-called ments was registered on an area of 3058 ‘outline’ festival texts, as well as a new km2 located on both banks of the Greater study of the four Old Hittite manuscripts Zab, at the foot of the Kurdistan moun- of the KI.LAM Great Assembly, it is argued tains. More than 300 archaeological sites, that the Hittite festival texts recorded 4 rock reliefs, nearly 80 cultural heritage the multiple perspectives, based on their monuments and over 100 caves illustrate nearly 10,000 years of the region’s specialized needs, of the cultic actors tasked with correct performance of the history, from the Neolithic period to the mid-20th century AD. rites, leading to a reassessment of the Hittite festival corpus as it is preserved. Kārbk Stream Basin 232p (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 65) by Rafał Koliński hardcover, 9783447112475, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 This volume contains a complete dataset for 34 archaeological sites docu- mented in 2013, 2014, and 2015 on a stretch of land connecting the Navkūr The Glyptic of Tell Chuēra Plain and the Greater Zab river valley along the Kārbk stream. Seals and Sealings of the 3rd 592p, 472 illus, 6 maps, 304 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2020, Settlement Millennium BC History of Iraqi Kurdistan 4) hardcover, 9783447114134, $235.00. by Anne-Birte Binder Special Offer $188.00 This volume publishes the seal impres- sions and seals excavated between 1955 Al-Hāzīr River Basin ˘ and 2011. With a total of 605 items by Rafał Kolinski and 313 different designs, the corpus This volume presents archaeological sites located along the western limit of forms a good basis to analyze the motif the survey area. It also discusses earlier archaeological fieldwork and presents repertoire of Tell Chuera, which is the studies of available historical and modern aerial imagery of the region. The only major site of the 3rd millennium BC catalogue includes information about 38 sites. between the Balikh and Habur that has been excavated on a large scale. 510p, 8 maps, 328 illus, 128 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, 218p, 30 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020, Vorderasiatische Forschungen Settlement History of Iraqi Kurdistan 3) hardcover, 9783447113250, $214.00. der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung 2.9) hardcover, 9783447113502, Special Offer $172.00 $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 7 Das Weltreich der Perser Keilschrifttafeln aus Kayalıpınar 1 Rezeption – Aneignung – Textfunde aus den Jahren 1999–2017 Verargumentierung edited by Elisabeth Rieken edited by Robert Rollinger, Kai Since 1999, the Hittite settlement Ruffing and Louisa Désirée Thomas mound at Kayalıpınar on the banks of The contributions collected in this volume the Kızılırmak in has repeatedly now focus on the history of the Achaeme- produced text finds—including the tablet nid Empire. The contributors use a broad which made it possible to identify the site spectrum of different sources as a basis for with Šamuha, one of the most important ˘ their analysis of the respective reception— cult sites of the Hittite Empire and tempo- classical literature and the Bible, Baroque rary royal residence. This volume for the opera, paintings, movies as well as Persian art in North America. Finally, the first time presents the text finds in their entirety in autograph, accompanied notions of the Achaemenid Empire in the history of culture and ideas are by a presentation of the circumstances of the finds and philological editions considered in detail. German text. with translation and commentary. German text. 456p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2019, Classica et Orientalia 23) 210p, 6 illus, 60 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Documenta antiqua hardcover, 9783447112963, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Asiae minoris 1) hardcover, 9783447112208, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00

Die Stadtmauer Der Alte Orient by Catharine Hof und die Entstehung der This book traces the transformation of a Athenischen Demokratie inviting and open magnificent building edited by Claudia Horst into a sealed-off fortification system. This According to popular opinion, Middle Eastern development of the late antique city wall societies have remained in despotic structures of Resafa is explained and richly illustrated. for thousands of years, whereas in the West The book deals with the effect of prosper- the way was paved in Athens for the emer- ity and technology transfer as well as the gence of European civilization. In academic effects of war, blackmail, and the plague research, this dichotomy between East and on the organization of a major construction West has been repeatedly questioned. This site in late Roman times in the Eastern Empire. German text. volume continues the debate and opens new perspectives. German text. 236p (Harrassowitz Verlag, February 2020, RESAFA 9.1) hardcover, 200p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2020, Classica et Orientalia 21) paperback, 9783447112802, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 9783447112840, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00

Die Zitadelle von Dur-Katlimmu in mittel- und Hethitische Texte in Transkription KUB 49 neuassyrischer Zeit by Johann Tischler, appendix by Detlev Groddek edited by Hartmut Kühne In KUB 49, Alfonso Archi presented a total of 103 oracle texts in 1979. In terms This three-part volume on the Middle and Neo-Assyrian period (c. 1300–550 of content, the volume is thus largely consistent; only a small fragment at a BC) concludes the publication of the excavation at the citadel mound of Tall time could be assigned to the genres of instructions or incantation rituals. In Šēh H. amad. It comprises a thorough documentation of the topography, fol- the present volume the material is, as usual, increasingly supplemented by lowed˘ by the description and interpretation of the stratigraphy, architecture, additional connections and duplicate information according to the current cuneiform archive, graves, and selected object groups. German text. state of research, in transcriptions for further research, whereby all texts could 2 vols, 758p, illus, box with 57 col fold-out pls and plans (Harrassowitz Verlag, be collated additionally on plate photographs. German text. November 2020, Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēh H. amad / Dūr-Katlimmu 12) 191p (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2019, Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie hardcover, 9783447061681, $403.00. Special Offer˘ $323.00 52) paperback, 9783447112901, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00

8 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Sensing the Past Detecting the Use of the Five Senses in Ancient Near Eastern Contexts edited by Davide Nadali and Frances Pinnock The archaeology of senses and the archaeology of emotions are two most interesting recent trends in modern studies about the past. This volume focuses mainly on the use of the five traditional senses, and tries to analyze how each of them might have played a role in specific ancient contexts—the use of sight in the rituals of kingship at Ebla and in the choice of specific places for settlements in the southern Levant; the use of hearing as an important aspect in the rites at one of the main temples of Ebla or in the open air sanctuaries of Anatolia; specific words for the definition of sounds in Sumerian and Akkadian texts; special foods and beverages during ceremonies; smell affecting both private and public spaces. A unique perspective is pro- vided by the analysis of the relation between public and artifacts in museums. 254p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2020) paperback, 9783447114110, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00

Proceedings of the Middle Babylonian Literary 11th International Congress Texts from the Frau Professor on the Archaeology of the Hilprecht Collection, Jena Ancient Near East by Elyze Zomer The two volumes include 96 selected This volume contains editions of literary lectures presented at the “11th Interna- fragments from the Middle Babylonian tional Congress on the Archaeology of period (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) kept in the the Ancient Near East” (ICAANE) at LMU Hilprecht-Collection in Jena. Presented in München in April 2018. This congress takes full are The Epic of Gulkisar (HS 1885+), a place every other year and is the platform Mythological Narrative on Pa(p)nigara (HS for all archaeologists worldwide to present 1886), a Ceremony in the Ekur (HS 1902), the current results of their research in and on the Near East. The timeframe and the Games Text (HS 1893), with introductions, transliterations, transla- comprises the Prehistoric Period, the Bronze and Iron Ages as well as the tions, philological commentaries, hand copies and photographs. Islamic Period; the geographical frame spans the area from Western Turkey 94p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Texte und Materialien der Hilprecht to Afghanistan, and from Georgia to Yemen. The ICAANE proceedings give a Collection 12) hardcover, 9783447112567, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 state-of-the-art insight into current research methods and problems of . Writing and Rewriting History in Ancient and Near Vol. 1: Mobility in the Ancient Near East. Images in Context. Eastern Cultures Archaeology as Cultural Heritage. Engendering Near Eastern edited by Isaac Kalimi Archaeology. Societal Contexts of Religion. Shaping the Living Space Most of the papers collected in this volume edited by Adelheid Otto, Michael Herles and Kai Kaniuth were delivered at a conference held in 540p (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2020) hardcover, 9783447113663, $160.00. June 2018 in Mainz. They discuss recent Special Offer $128.00 developments in the analysis of history and historiography in ancient Israel and its Vol. 2: Field Reports. Islamic Archaeology surrounding cultures. The scholars compare edited by Adelheid Otto, Michael Herles, Kai Kaniuth, Lorenz Korn the compositional and editorial approaches and Anja Heidenreich evident in biblical and post-biblical writings with those shown in other 678p (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2020) hardcover, 9783447113670, $173.00. ancient literature, while concentrating on a specific theme. Special Offer $139.00 250p (Harrassowitz Verlag, February 2020) hardcover, 9783447113632, $73.00. Special Offer $59.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 9 König Salomo Mensch und Mythos: Geschichtsschreibung in der Hebräischen Bibel im Wandel by Isaac Kalimi The concept of as the wise king and founder of the temple in Jerusalem is part of the permanent inventory of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature. But despite his glorious reputation, portraits of Solomon in the Old Testament tell contrasting stories. Isaac Kalimi explores the differing representations, which are the result of diverging historical contexts, theological and didactic concepts, stylistic and literary techniques, and compositional methods. The unique nature of each of these representa- tions is pointed out using precise comparisons of the characteristics of early and late biblical historians. In addition, Kalimi analyzes contrasting presentations of Solomon’s character, birth, naming, early life, ascension, as well as the construction of the temple in the Book of Kings and in historical accounts. German text. 450p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2020) hardcover, 9783447111041, $106.00. Special Offer $85.00 Bannlösung Studia Eblaitica 5 (2019) (nam-érim-búr-ru-da) Studies on the Archaeology, History, Die Therapie eines auf eidliche Falsch- and Philology of Ancient Syria aussage zurückgeführten Leidens edited by Paolo Matthiae by Stefan M. Maul Contents: Wars at the Time of Irkab-damu, This volume presents a hitherto completely King of Ebla; The Subdivision of the Month unknown corpus of texts. The cuneiform tab- at Ebla According to the Liturgical Calendar lets document a therapeutic procedure called TM.75.G.12287+ and the Royal Rituals; “curse-breaking”. The aim of the therapy was The Early Bronze Age Seal Impressions on to free the patient from the symptoms and Jars from H. irbet ez-Zeraqōn. Preliminary causes of a serious illness whose origin was Remarks on Pottery and Images; The believed to be the guilt of a sworn false statement. German text. Middle Bronze Palaces at Ebla: Architectural Spaces and Administrative Func- 2 vols, 550p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2020, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen tions; Isolated Monuments in Highly Urbanised Landscapes: The Farayji Stela Inhalts 10) hardcover, 9783447112093, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 in Central-Western Syria; The Hurrian Song of Release and the Fall of Ebla; Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in Syria: A Reassessment. Die Terrakotten aus Assur im 226p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2019) paperback, 9783447113007, Vorderasiatischen Museum Berlin $92.00. 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A Thousand Judgements Mountains and Trees, Festschrift for Maria Macuch Rivers and Springs edited by Almut Hintze, Animistic Beliefs and Practices in Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Claudius Naumann by Anna Perdibon This volume in honor of Maria Macuch The animated picture of myths and magic, brings together twenty-six articles by prayers and offerings in ancient Mesopo- friends and colleagues to celebrate the tamian Religion is a reflection of a world academic work of the foremost living where gods and humans were part of a expert of Sasanian law. The subjects much more complex and multilayered sys- covered here include Iranian linguistics and tem, where every single part was closely philology, Judeo-Persian, Zoroastrian law and religion, Manichaeism, and the connected with each other in a dense network of symbolic and ritual mean- Babylonian Talmud. English, French, and German text. ings. Anna Perdibon explores the modalities of the human-environmental 394p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2019) hardcover, 9783447110945, relationships by studying how mountains, rivers, and trees were embedded $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 within the ancient Mesopotamian religious framework. 220p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2019, Leipziger Altorientalische Studien Perfekt, Pseudopartizip, Stativ 11) paperback, 9783447113212, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 Die afroasiatische Suffixkonjugation in sprachvergleichender Perspektive The Rod and Measuring Rope by Marc Brose Festschrift for Olof Pedersén The Afro-Asian suffix conjugation is a finite edited by Mattias Karlsson verbal form type, which is used across most Reflecting the broad interests of the language branches of the Afro-Asian lan- honoree, the contributions vary in terms of guages from the earliest testimony of these subject, source type, time period (ranging languages in the form of ancient Egyptian from the Early Dynastic to the Neo-Assyrian and the Semitic languages in the 3rd mil- period), and geography. Not only papers in lennium BC until today. This study offers a Assyriology can be found in the book but detailed documentation of form, functional spectrum, and possible inner- also ones rooted in Near Eastern Archaeol- language developments in the different language branches and individual ogy, Egyptology, and Biblical and Graeco- languages, as well as possible convergent verbal formations. German text. Roman studies. 325p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des 234p (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2019) paperback, 9783447112246, $80.00. Morgenlandes 117) paperback, 9783447112819, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 Special Offer $64.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 11 Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research edited by Matthias Armgardt, Benjamin Kilchör and Markus Zehnder It is by now generally recognized that the old paradigm can no longer command a dominant position in the reconstruction of the genesis and structure of the Pentateuch. While the studies collected in this volume do not suggest that there is only one specific direction for the search of a new paradigm, they make clear that an important element for the furthering of the dis- cussion is the use of empirical methods, in contradistinction to a dominance of subjective criteria and approaches developed in circumstances that are foreign to the cultural world of the ancient Near East. 366p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2019, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 22) hardcover, 9783447111706, $117.00. Special Offer $94.00 Aux commencements – Création et temporalité dans la Bible et Reading as a Disclosure dans son contexte culturel of the Thoughts of the Heart Collected Essays on Creation and Proto-Halakhic Reuse and Temporality in Ancient Near Eastern Appropriation between Torah and Biblical Texts and the Prophets edited by Sophie Ramond by Kenneth Bergland and Reinhard Achenbach This volume goes beyond questions of how This collection presents different approach- the Bible can function as norm for contempo- es and perspectives to the issue: philo- rary ethics, biblical law, reuse and direction logical investigations on forms to describe of dependence within the Bible, and the initiative actions or events; essays on the concept of creation that intends memorization of revered texts in the ANE. to describe beginnings in the classical meaning, on myths on decline and Rather, it combines research within these areas in a quest for forms of life reading recreation and on their historical and sociological function; and studies about the biblical texts as close as possible to how they were intended by their authors. the liturgical and cosmological meaning of calendars. English and French text. 362p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2019, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für 192p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 23) hardcover, 9783447112109, Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 24) hardcover, 9783447112635, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 $79.00. Special Offer $64.00

Persische Reichspolitik Wirtschaftstexte und lokale Heiligtümer Monatliche Buchführung über Beiträge einer Tagung des Exzellenz- Textilien aus Ibriums Amtszeit clusters “Religion und Politik in (Archiv L. 2769) Vormoderne und Moderne” vom by Imad Samir 24.–26. Februar 2016 in Münster This volume presents twenty monthly edited by Reinhard Achenbach cuneiform tablets from the period of This anthology presents the contributions Ibrium’s rule as minister for Isar-damu, of an international conference on the reli- which document the allocation of clothing gious politics of the Achaemenids and the by the central administration of the city of role of their local shrines. German text. Ebla to members of the upper class, palace 294p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2019, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für employees, and representatives of the allied cities. German text. Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 25) hardcover, 9783447113199, 314p (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Archivi Reali di Ebla. Testi 19) hardcover, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 9783447111683, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00

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Babylonian Ceremonial Script in Its Scholarly Context by Carole Roche-Hawley Two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as “cursive,” was used for the ephemeral documents of “daily life” as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency by providing a substantive introduction to Baby- lonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. p (Lockwood Press, March 2021, Critical Editions of Ancient Texts 1) hardcover, 9781948488396, $64.95. Special Offer $52.00 PDF e-book, 9781948488402, $52.00 Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Mediterranean Wines of Place Cuneiform Texts in the Yale A Celebration of Heritage Grapes Babylonian Collection by Al Leonard by Benjamin R. Foster Al Leonard, a Professor of Classical Archaeol- This volume publishes hand copies of ogy and wine aficionado, pairs his love of the 292 cuneiform texts and continues Mediterranean World with wines that are publication of the Pre-Ur III texts begun crafted from the heritage grapes that have by George Hackman and Ferris Stephens been so much a part of its history. This loca- in the series Babylonian lnscriptions in vore’s guide to Mediterranean wines provides the Collection of J. B. Nies, volume 8. The a historical introduction to more than sixty tablet copies presented here include heirloom grapes and the wines they produce. accounts and records from Isin, , Shuruppak, Umma, Zabala, Girsu, 104p, col illus throughout (Lockwood Press, March 2020) paperback, Umma, Lagash, Eshnunna, and Kish, as well as the Mesag archive. 9781948488433, $17.95. Special Offer $15.00; 220p (Lockwood Press, March 2020) hardcover, 9781948488266, $85.00. PDF e-book, 9781948488440, $14.50 Special Offer $68.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488273, $68.00 The Woman in the Pith Helmet A Tribute to Archaeologist Between Syria Norma Franklin and the Highlands edited by Jennie Ebeling Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati and Philippe Guillaume and Marilyn Kelly-Bucellatti This volume celebrates the career of Norma edited by Stefano Valentini Franklin, an archaeologist who has made and Guido Guarducci important contributions to our understand- Contents include: Ruweiha, a Village from ing of the three key cities of Samaria, Megid- Northern Syria During Byzantine Period; do, and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Integrating Conservation, Archaeology, Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays and Community at Tell Mozan; Tales from offered herein by Franklin’s colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies the Desert Nomads; amagan and the are a fitting tribute to the woman in the pith helmet: an indomitable field Mules of Ebla; A Tale of Two Temples of the Ninevite 5 Period; Houses of Nip- archaeologist who describes herself as “happiest with complex stratigraphy” pur; The Ear in the Ebla Texts; English, French, and Italian text. and dedicated to “killing sacred cows.” 394p (Arbor Sapientiae Editore, December 2019, Studies on the Ancient Near 316p (Lockwood Press, November 2020) hardcover, 9781948488334, $44.95. East and the Mediterranean 3) hardcover, 9788831341011, $175.00. Special Offer $36.00; PDF e-book, 9781948488341, $36.00 Special Offer $140.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 13 After the Harvest KIM 3 (Kültepe International Storage Practices and Food Meetings 3) Processing in Bronze Age Integrative Approaches to the Mesopotamia Archaeology and History of edited by Noemi Borrelli Kültepe-Kaneš. Kültepe, 4–7 and Giulia Scazzosi August 2017 The reliance on grain and grain products edited by Fikri Kulakoğlu, Cécile is a key feature of many past societies, Michel and Güzel Öztürk and this is particularly true of the An- The 3rd Kültepe International Meeting cient Near East. The necessity of storing aimed at exploring multidisciplinary and processing foodstuffs encompassed approaches to the archaeology and his- political and social boundaries: food shaped identities and it was not by tory of complex urban sites using Kültepe-Kanesh as a case study. As a result, chance that, for the Mesopotamian mindset, civilization started with the the conference proceedings involve a wide variety of disciplines: archaeology, consumption of bread and beer. At any managerial level, storage practices ceramics, paleobotany, paleoecology, palynology, archaeometallurgy, geo- and food processing reflect the economic organization of a society, its control and archaeomagnetism, art history, philology, history, computer science, mechanisms, and its interdependent social structures. This volume includes and last but not least, video game design. All the contributions presented eight papers by scholars of the Ancient Near East, who draw on a wide here provide a good overview of the ongoing multidisciplinary studies being range of sources and methodologies, from (bio-)archaeological evidence to carried out at Kültepe and Central Anatolia. cuneiform texts, in order to explore what actually happened after the harvest 258p, 12 col & 173 b/w illus, 20 tbls (Brepols Publishers, June 2020, Subartu 45) in the shared horizon of Bronze Age Mesopotamia. paperback, 9782503585598, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 146p, 53 b/w illus, 14 tbls (Brepols Publishers, March 2020, Subartu 43) paperback, 9782503583785, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 Die chalkolithische Siedlung von Giricano am Oberen Tigris Circular Cities of Early Bronze Die Ausgrabungen in Giricano II Age Syria by Andreas Schachner edited by Corinne Castel, Jan- The late Chalcolithic settlement layers Waalke Meyer and Philippe at Giricano provide an uninterrupted Quenet overview of the cultural development This volume corresponds to the acts of a in the Upper Tigris valley from the conference that closes an international Ubaid period to the first half of the 3rd interdisciplinary research project on the millennium BC. The material culture Tell Al-Rawda and Tell Chuera archaeo- of the settlement, which was founded logical missions. Both sites illustrate in the Late Chalcolithic (LC) 1, shows that the culture spread as far as the the importance of the 3rd millennium foothills of the Taurus mountains. Shortly before the turn of the 4th to the 3rd BCE ‘circular cities’ discovered in today’s Syria. These pre-planned cities were millennium BC, the settlement reached the peak of its development in phase fortified and organized following a concentric and radial urban pattern. They LC 5, documented by a monumental building that was probably destroyed in represent a particular form of the endogenous process of urbanization that an earthquake. There was a much diminished re-occupation of the site in the appeared in this region when the first cities and territorial states emerged. Ninevite 5 period before the site was abandoned. This presentation traces the The main results obtained from these two sites are compared to other Syrian development of the architecture, ceramics and small finds at Giricano. It is ‘circular cities’ of the Early Bronze Age. The contributions enable us to reassess supplemented by a discussion of the settlement’s integration into supra- the process of urbanization in the Near East. regional cultural developments. German text. 398p, 36 col & 133 b/w illus, 16 tbls (Brepols Publishers, August 2020, Subartu 206p, 167 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, June 2020, Subartu 44) paperback, 42) paperback, 9782503551838, $130.00. Special Offer $104.00 9782503575360, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00

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Drawing on finds yielded during excavations by the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project and other archaeological projects, as well as the research undertaken within the Ceramics in Context project, this volume evaluates the pottery from Gerasa produced in the Late Hellenistic and Roman periods. 390p, 21 col & 196 b/w illus, 31 tbls (Brepols Publishers, September 2020, Jerash Papers 5) paperback, 9782503585048, $143.00. Special Offer $115.00 Flesh and Bones Environmental Studies, The Individual and his Body in Remote Sensing, and Modelling the Ancient Mediterranean Basin Final Publications from the Danish- by Alice Mouton German Jerash Northwest Quarter This volume gathers the papers presented Project I during an interdisciplinary research edited by Achim Lichtenberger seminar. Its main aim consisted in and Rubina Raja studying self-perceptions of the body in Covering different themes and categories of the Ancient Near East, with incursions in finds, this volume focuses on the geophysi- other parts of the Mediterranean Basin cal survey and other remote-sensing work in a comparatist perspective. Various undertaken in and around the Northwest themes are examined, such as the relationship between the body and language; Quarter, and also presents an in-depth discussion of the environmental stud- the body, perceptions, and society, including a study of the senses as they are ies performed at the site. This includes the geoscientific analysis carried out described in the texts; the body as a symbol of social belonging; and the body as in various contexts, as well as radiocarbon dating, studies of both human and a medium for religious experience. animal bones, and conclusions drawn from the archaeobotanical research. 240p, 14 b/w illus, 25 tbls (Brepols Publishers, September 2020, Semitica et Classica: 190p, 10 col & 80 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, November 2020, Jerash Papers Supplementa 2) paperback, 9782503590387, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 6) hardcover, 9782503588865, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 ‘The loss of a minute is just Urban Practices so much loss of life’ Repopulating the Ancient City Edward Robinson and Eli Smith edited by Annette Haug in the Holy Land and Stephanie Merten by Haim Goren This volume draws together two often The story of Robinson and Smith’s expedition disparate fields—urban space and and writing of the Biblical Researches that human practice—to explore the actors emerges from their correspondence under- and actions that underpinned ancient scores the difficulties they overcame, and the cities and to offer unique insights into accuracy and magnitude of their scholarship the lives of those who dwelt there, with in an age bereft of modern technology. emphasis on social practice theory. 350p, 8 col & 25 b/w illus, 1 tbl (Brepols Publishers, June 2020, Studia 172p, 40 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, February 2020, Studies in Classical Traditionis Theologiae. 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Lille, 4–5 April 2016 by Rüdiger Schmitt edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz Rüdiger Schmitt offers an overview of the and Sebastian Fink Iron Age religions of Israel / Palestine, The first of the Melammu Workshops asks i.e., Cis- and Transjordan, in their own how female and male representatives of contexts and historical developments. the wise, female and male sages, were The late Canaanite religion, the Israelite- conceptualized in antiquity and whether Judean religion, the religions of the there was a clear difference between Philistines, the Geshurites, Gileadites, and female and male wisdom. The workshop followed a historical chronology, the Aramaic-speaking entities in Palestine, the Ammonites, the Moabites, starting from Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources, continuing West through and the Edomites are each contrasted in their own but identically structured the Levant and ending with Greek and Roman documentation. It permitted chapters, so that differences, similarities and parallel developments emerge. a vast exploration of sages, both divine and human, as they were portrayed The cultures of Israel/Palestine during the Iron Age are linked by a variety in antiquity. The papers brought to light several tensions among which the of historical, cultural and religious aspects. This applies above all to the question of gender was not the least. Indeed, the nature of wisdom itself, structurally and closely related religious-symbol systems and their family, lo- human and divine, empirical, theoretical but also at times abstract and dif- cal, regional and official subsystems as well as the strongly patriarchal social ficult to outline, pointed to the difficulty of a definition. Hence the plurality of and value systems characterized by peasant and pastoralizing economic representations might be interpreted as a sign of this difficulty and variety. practices, particularly evident in the absolute dominance of male deities, in 206p (Zaphon, October 2019, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 1) particular of the respective national god and in the family religion. German hardcover, 9783963270680, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 text. 230p (Zaphon, August 2020, Ägypten und Altes Testament 94) hardcover, Literary Change in Mesopotamia 9783963271182, $105.00. 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Newly discovered texts and linking the East with the West were conduits for people and goods and archaeological finds are presented, and new aspects of well-known literary fostered the spread of ideas and technologies in both directions. A study of compositions and excavation sites of the region are taken into consideration. the itineraries and the conditions of travel is crucial to an understanding of Further studies focus on history and geography of the northwestern part of the ways of cultural exchange. the Ancient Near East. English, German, and Italian text. 292p (Zaphon, October 2019, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2) 500p (Zaphon, May 2020, Kasion 2) hardcover, 9783963271106, $166.00. hardcover, 9783963270666, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 Special Offer $133.00

16 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Explaining Disaster Tradition and Transformation of the ‘Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sin’ in Babylonian Literature by Hanspeter Schaudig The aim of this study is to investigate the philosophy and the reasoning that transformed the plain historical fact of the destruction of the empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur under its king Ibbi-Sîn (ca. 2028–2004 BCE) into a balanced and logical model of crime and divine punishment in the course of Babylonian historiography. The study presents nearly 80 excerpts and new editions of Babylonian texts dealing with the fall of the “great city” under an “ill-starred king” by divine disfavour or wrath, among them full new editions of numerous historical omens, the Esaĝil Chronicle, the Book of Prodigies and the Religious Chronicle. It also contains excerpts from cultic lamentations, the Royal Correspondence of Ur, the Marduk Prophecy, Chronicle P, the Chedorlaomer Texts and various royal inscriptions. 700p (Zaphon, December 2019, dubsar 13) hardcover, 9783963270741, $196.00. Special Offer $157.00

Introduction to Old Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Dispute by N. J. C. Kouwenberg Documents in the This book is meant as an aid to the reading by Małgorzata Sandowicz and interpretation of Old Assyrian texts This study comprises critical editions for students who are already familiar with of 51 hitherto unpublished Babylonian Akkadian, in particular with Old Babylonian. texts written between the mid-seventh Accordingly, it focuses on those aspects in century and the first quarter of the fifth which Old Assyrian grammar and lexicon are century BCE, a period that includes the different from Babylonian and on the spe- final decades of the Assyrian domination cific problems that Old Assyrian texts might over Babylonia, the rule of the Chaldean pose to students of Babylonian. It comprises dynasty, and the reigns of the first three a complete grammar, a glossary, and a selection of sample editions of texts. Persian kings who sat on the Babylonian throne. When grouped and treated 211p (Zaphon, June 2019) hardcover, 9783963270642, $45.00. as a coherent whole, they effectively contribute to an understanding of Neo- Special Offer $36.00 Babylonian dispute settlement mechanisms. 274p, 56 pls (Zaphon, September 2019, dubsar 11) hardcover, 9783963270727, mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 he2-g˜al2 Altorientalistische˘ Studien Catalogue of the Babylonian zu Ehren von Konrad Volk Tablets in the British Museum edited by Jessica Baldwin Volumes IV–V and Jana Matuszak by E. Leichty, I. L. Finkel Contents include: “Skipped Lines” (MU.ME and C. B. F. Walker GU4.UD.ME) in Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers; The present double volume of the “Cata- Two New Larsa Hymns in a Private Collec- logue of the Babylonian Tablets” presents tion; Ein neues Dumuzi-Inanna-Lied aus all tablets from Babylonia excavated, der Hilprecht-Sammlung (HS 2940); Neues purchased or donated between 1821 and zum assyrischen tākultu-Ritual; Zur Beendigung von Adoptionsverhältnissen in 1881. Cataloguing of these collections be- altbabylonischer Zei; Wer setzte den Göttern die Hörner(krone) auf?; Scholars in gan in 1894–5 when T. G. Pinches prepared the Footsteps of Kidin-Anu; On the Mother of Šu-Suen. English and German text. a slip catalogue of the first part of the second Spartali collection. 518p (Zaphon, April 2020, dubsar 17) hardcover, 9783963271021, $166.00. 725p (Zaphon, December 2019, dubsar 10) hardcover, 9783963270567, Special Offer $133.00 $196.00. Special Offer $157.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 17 Zaphon — L'Erma di Bretschneider

Life at the Dead Sea Proceedings of the International Conference held at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), February 21–24, 2018, Chemnitz edited by Martin Peilstöcker and Sabine Wolfram Until the present day the Dead Sea is associated with the many biblical stories that take place around the Salt Sea, as it is called in Hebrew, and the large number of world famous archaeological sites. The region is certainly suited to serve as a micro- cosmic mirror of the different stages of archaeological and historical research in the Near East. Contributions explore the region in Israel, Palestine, and —in particular , Jericho, Machaerus, Kallirrhoe, En-Gedi, Ghor es-Safi. They focus on its archaeology, the history of the exploration, as well as the role of the Dead Sea in the Bible. 367p (Zaphon, July 2020, Ägypten und Altes Testament 96) hardcover, 9783963270826, $157.00. Special Offer $126.00

Dating the Iron Age IIB Sumhuram: Archaeological Horizon The Becoming of the Town in Israel and Judah Khor Rori Report 4 A Reinvestigation of ‘Neo-Assyrian edited by Vittoria Buffa (Period)’ Sigillographic and Ceramic The port of Sumhuram has been under Chronological Markers from the 8th investigation for more than twenty years. and 7th Centuries B.C. This volume presents the results of three different subjects of research, spanning by Pieter Gert van der Veen from the presentation of the excavation of While the manufacture of ‘Assyrian-style’ a residential complex, to the study of the very numerous bronze coins found objects in the Southern Levant reached in the city, to the analysis of the data available, allowing for the reconstruc- its cultural zenith during the heyday of tion of the history of the town in its chronological development from the 2nd the Assyrian empire, this volume lists several items which in the traditional century BC to the 5th century AD, through the study of ceramics and coins. framework largely predate the Assyrian hegemony over the region, some- Special attention is given to the very first period of occupation of the town, of times by several decades. which we had very few attestations until recently. 222p (Zaphon, July 2020, Ägypten und Altes Testament 98) hardcover, 292p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, December 2019, Arabia Antica 16) paperback, 9783963270864, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 9788891318978, $313.00. Special Offer $251.00

The Site of the Battle of the ARABI. Arabs Recount Arabia Aegates Islands at the End Before Islam of the First Punic War Part III Fieldwork, Analyses and by Daniele Mascitelli Perspectives, 2005–2015 This series aims to investigate the nar- edited by Jeffrey G. Royal ration about pre-Islamic Arabia built in and Sebastiano Tusa the Arab-Muslim Tradition and compare Finds of bronze warship rams, armor, it, whence possible, with the historical amphoras, inscriptions, and evidence of data resumed from direct (epigraphic and shipwreck sites confirm the discovery of this ancient naval battle landscape. archaeological) and external sources. Part These artifacts provide new lines of inquiry into cultural change during the III of this series deals with the shift from 3rd century BC, and the economics of fleet construction. polytheism to monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia. 324p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, January 2020, Bibliotheca Archaeologica 60) 68p (L’Erma di Bretschneider, December 2019, Quaderni di Arabia antica 7) hardcover, 9788891318329, $313.00. Special Offer $251.00 paperback, 9788891318916, $75.00. Special Offer $60.00

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Encoding metalinguistic awareness Ancient Mesopotamia and Beyond edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and J. Cale Johnson The historical processes of transmission within the cuneiform world and the difficulties of translating cuneiform sources into non-cuneiform traditions ensured their continued survival in Mesopotamia and Syria for millennia. One of the most important components of this process was the awareness of practitioners about language, its role for and its impact on the generation of knowledge, and specifically about linguistic patterns. Among the literally innumerable textual artifacts from the ancient Near East, there are some that both explicitly and implicitly encode traces of this distinctively linguistic awareness. It was in pursuit of these traces of (meta)linguistic awareness that the participants in this volume came together. 226p (PeWe-Verlag, December 2019, Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 29) hardcover, 9783935012409, $44.00. Special Offer $36.00 Current Research in The Dinka Settlement Cuneiform Palaeography Complex 2018 Proceedings of the Workshop Continuing the Excavations at organised at the 60th Rencontre Qalat-i Dinka and the Lower Town Assyriologique Internationale, edited by Karen Radner, F. Janoscha Innsbruck 2018 Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri edited by Elena Devecchi, Jana The good state of preservation and the Mynářová and Gerfrid G. W. Müller excellent archaeological accessibility The present volume collects the papers directly below the modern surface make presented at the second workshop devoted the 60 hectare large Dinka Settlement to “Current Research in Cuneiform Palaeog- Complex in the Bora Plain a key site for the raphy” and brings new insights to a field of cuneiform studies that during the investigation of the Iron Age in the Zagros mountains of northeastern Iraq last decade had been witnessing ever growing attention among scholars. The and northwestern Iran. This volume presents the pottery and the small finds contributions provide a wide perspective on the topic by investigating text from the 2018 excavation areas. corpora that date from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE and derive from the 170p (PeWe-Verlag, September 2019, Peshdar Plain Project Publications 4) whole Ancient Near East (from southern Mesopotamia, to Anatolia, Syria and hardcover, 9783935012393, $46.00. Special Offer $37.00 the northern Levant). 220p (PeWe-Verlag, December 2019, Current Research in Cuneiform Der Baudekor des zweiten Palaeography 2) hardcover, 9783935012416, $46.00. Special Offer $37.00 Jahrtausends v. Chr. in Mesopotamien QAZZU warrai Formen – Motive – Perzeption Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida by Martin Gruber edited by Adam Alvah Catt, Ronald I. Kim, and Brent Vine This study deals with the archaeological Kazuhiko Yoshida—”Kazu” to those who know him—has deservedly earned examples of architectural ornamentation this wide-ranging volume as a tribute to his distinguished career in Anatolian in 2nd-millennium Mesopotamia. The and Indo-European linguistics. Stimulating contributions to the linguistic study emphasis is on sacred buildings as they of Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Tocharian, Old Persian, Armenian, Latin, Ice- are shown to be the preferred—and often landic, and some other languages rub shoulders with papers on the Anatolian only—carriers of those forms of architec- languages themselves. This panoply gives a valuable snapshot of cutting-edge tural ornamentation that are focused on here. German text. research across the length and breadth of Indo-European studies. 384p, 339 illus (PeWe-Verlag, July 2019, Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten 445p (Beech Stave Press, July 2019) hardcover, 9780989514262, $100.00. Orient 3) hardcover, 9783935012355, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 Special Offer $80.00

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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989–2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of , Final Reports, Volume 1 edited by Kenneth G. Holum This volume presents the results of the many years of excavation by the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, a joint project organized to explore the city and harbor of ancient Caesarea, built by Herod the Great at the end of the first century BCE. It publishes the discoveries on land, both on the Temple Platform, built by Herod for his magnificent harbor temple to Roma and Augustus, and in the Inner Harbor quays. It presents the original research questions, the overall stratigraphy of the site, and the team’s findings about Caesarea from the Hellenistic period to the end of antiquity in the seventh century CE, mak- ing a significant contribution to our understanding of the transition from paganism to Christianity in Late Antiquity. 472p, 256 b/w illus, 3 fold-out maps, 13 tbls (ASOR, December 2020, Archaeological Reports 27) hardcover, 9780897571159, $89.95. Special Offer $72.00 The Excavations of ‘Iraq Ephesos from Late Antiquity al-Amir, Volume II until the Late Middle Ages edited by Nancy L. Lapp edited by Sabine Ladstätter This is the second volume of reports and Paul Magdalino from Paul Lapp’s excavations at ‘Iraq Contributions deal with the restoration al-Amir in 1961 and 1962. The presenta- project in Ayasoluk, the research in the tion of the stratified corpus of the Cemetery of the Seven Sleepers, the health Hellenistic and Roman pottery in the status of the inhabitants of early Byzan- Village excavations, from approximately tine Ephesus, and roads and routes in the 200 BCE to 200 CE, is a major portion of Ephesian hinterland. Bathing in Ephesos the volume. Along with the smaller pot- from early Byzantine to Islamic times is dis- tery collections of the Iron Age, Early Bronze, and Byzantine periods, a major cussed, as well as the Ephesian ports after the Roman period, and medieval contribution is made to the growing quantity of characteristic pottery of Ephesus as a production and consumption center. Transjordan and its relation to the ceramic assemblages of ancient Palestine 274p (Holzhausen Verlag, December 2019, Sonderschriften des Österreichischen to the west and Syria to the north. The pottery studies are introduced by a Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 58) hardcover, 9783903207424, $135.00. review of the history of the excavations at the site. Special Offer $108.00 308p, 139 b/w illus & pls, 4 tbls (ASOR, December 2019, Annual of ASOR 74) hardcover, 9780897571135, $84.95. Special Offer $68.00 All Things Cypriot Studies on Ancient Environment, Excavations at Tel Jezreel, 1995–1996 Technology, and Society in Honor The Stratigraphy and Neolithic–Iron Age Pottery from Area A of Stuart Swiny by Charlotte Whiting and Gloria London edited by Zuzana Chovanec This volume presents the results of the Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and and Walter Crist Publication Project, directed by Charlotte Whiting on behalf of the Council This volume contains 18 articles grouped for British Research in the Levant (CBRL). The project analysed the Tel Jezreel into six thematic sections: The Life and excavation archive stored at the CBRL’s Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. The cur- Legacy of Stuart Swiny; Human–Envi- rent volume presents the stratigraphic sequence and the Neolithic to Iron Age ronment Interactions in Cyprus; Social pottery excavated during the 1995–1996 seasons. The Tel Jezreel stratigraphy Use and Organization of Space; Material and ceramics have been deemed relevant to determining Iron Age chrono- Culture Studies; Regional Interactions; Future Directions. logical and social issues, two topics that are highly debated in the literature. 292p, 90 b/w illus, 3 tbls (ASOR, December 2020, Archaeological Reports 28) 304p, 85 b/w illus, 1 tbl (ASOR, December 2020, Annual of ASOR 73) hardcover, hardcover, 9780897571166, $79.95. Special Offer $64.00 9780897571111, $74.95. 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The Phoenician trade-nets are presented geographically, with special attention paid to the traceable product networks involving wine, salted fish, or perfumed oils. 224p (Equinox Publishing, January 2021, Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean) hardcover, 9781781798256, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 Josiah Recovering Women’s Rituals From Improbable Stories in the Ancient Near East to Inventive Historiography by Julye Bidmead by Lowell K. Handy Using combined methodologies of feminist This book considers the various ways in ideological criticism, ritual studies, and a which the last major King of Judah has been reexamination of archaeological remains presented in biblical texts and the subse- this book offers reconstructions of women’s quent cultures that have made use of the rituals and rites of passage in ancient Israel, biblical narratives. It is posited that there is , and Mesopotamia during the first no reliable material that can be dated to the millennium BCE. time of Josiah and that the literary construc- 320p, 20 b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, tions of Josiah’s reign in Kings, Chronicles, and First Esdras already provided September 2019, Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean) the inventive memory of a no longer recoverable monarch’s life. hardcover, 9781781790755, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 320p (Equinox Publishing, February 2020, Worlds of the Ancient Near East and New Light on Canaanite- Mediterranean) paperback, 9781781798584, $32.95. Special Offer $27.00 hardcover, 9781781798577, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 Phoenician Pottery by Dalit Regev Historical Consciousness This book follows a continuous line of and the Use of the Past development from Canaanite pottery to in the Ancient World the Phoenician pottery corpus. Phoeni- cian pottery typically is considered to edited by John Baines, Henriette have first emerged in the Iron Age, and van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen most research is limited to the first half and Tim Rood of the first millennium BCE. The current Historical Consciousness and the Use of analysis, however, shows the Canaanite the Past in the Ancient World offers linked predecessors as well as the ongoing continuity of Phoenician forms and essays on uses of the past in prominent techniques during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. There are two areas of and diverse cultures in ancient civiliza- focus: Phoenician container products, especially amphorae and bottles, and tions across the world. The contributors are red-slip pottery, which was a constant feature of the Phoenician assemblage. leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies, 256p, 27 col & b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, December 2019, Worlds of the Classics, and Maya Studies. 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Animal Iconography in The Archaeology of Ancient Cities the Archaeological Record by Glenn R. Storey New Approaches, New Dimensions Urban places are both physical and social edited by Laerke Recht agglomerations, fostering the most intense and Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska interaction of any human settlement. How were animals represented in iconogra- Archaeological evidence illustrates how phy, and how is the craftsperson interpret- ancient cities worldwide were similar in ing animals within his or her own cultural origin, development, and maturation, show- context? What do the representations tell ing considerable isomorphism with modern us about the role and function of both cities. This book explores issues of definition animals and the representations them- and the essential elements of cities, offers a selves? A series of papers explore these questions through images of animals. new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities This is, for example, done by using technologies like 3D models to emphasize (Copán, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) the dimensionality of objects, or through theoretical and interdisciplinary with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Cities have been char- approaches that examine the intersection of the human and the animal. The acterized as “social reactors” working much like a star in creating an explosive papers challenge the notion of animals purely as objects, instead focusing increase in human connectivity. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, on the many ways in which humans and animals interact, starting in the helps us understand the essence of this—the most exciting and vibrant Neolithic and ending in the Medieval period, from the Mediterranean and product of the human tendency to nucleate. Northern Europe through Siberia and the Baltic to Australia. 176p, illus (Eliot Werner Publications, March 2020, Principles of Archaeology) 300p, 109 illus (Equinox Publishing, May 2021) hardcover, 9781781799260, paperback, 9781733376907, $32.95. Special Offer $27.00 $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 PDF e-book, 9781734281811, $27.00; EPUB e-book, 9781734281804, $26.99 Profane Landscapes, Transitions, Urbanism, and Sacred Spaces Collapse in the Bronze Age edited by Miroslav Bárta Essays in Honor of and Jiři Janák Suzanne Richard Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed edited by Jesse C. Long, Jr. that Egypt—that is, ancient Egyptian civi- and William G. Dever lization—was a gift of the Nile. However, In recognition of the significant only recently have Egyptologists come to contribution that Suzanne Richard has appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift made to the archaeology of the Early of the desert as a gift of the water, at least Bronze Age in the southern Levant, as regards its very beginnings. To under- this Festschrift represents the best of stand the civilization that originally settled along the Nile Valley and in the scholarship in her areas of interest. Professor Richard is known for her work on Delta, we must study not only the remains of ancient monuments, excavated the Early Bronze Age, especially the EB III–IV. More recently, she is concerned artifacts and reconstructed texts, but take proper account of the landscape, with interconnectivity, social organization in rural periods, and urban-rural conditions and environment that shaped Egypt’s culture, religion and ideol- transitions in the Levant in the fourth and third millennia BCE in particular. ogy. This volume addresses various aspects of how the world was perceived With an international cadre of leading scholars, the volume reflects recent in the minds of Egyptians, and how Egyptians subsequently reshaped scholarship on the nature of Bronze Age urbanism and cultural transitions at their surrounding landscape in harmony with their view of geography and key junctures. The volume is an important contribution to the field of late 4th cosmological ideas. Profane landscape and sacred space thus blend into one through the 2nd millennia BCE. multi-faceted concept. 500p, 122 illus (Equinox Publishing, May 2021) hardcover, 9781781797204, 288p, 100 illus (Equinox Publishing, March 2020, New Directions in Anthropological $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 Archaeology) hardcover, 9781781794098, $105.00. 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Orta ve Doğu Anadolu Geç Bademağacı Höyüğü Kazıları Demir Çağı / Central and Eastern / Excavations at Bademağacı Anatolia Late Iron Age Höyük Post-Urartu, Med ve Akhaimenid Neolitik ve Erken Kalkolitik Çağ İmparatorlukları / Post-Urartu, Yerleşmeleri I / The Neolithic and Median and Achaemenid Empires Early Chalcolithic Settlements I edited by Aynur Özfırat, Şevket by Refik Duru and Gülsün Umurtak Dönmez, Mehmet Işıklı and Mona Saba This volume constitutes the first part of the Contents include: Anatolian Iron Age Per- final report of the Bademağacı Höyük ex- sian History and Oluz Höyük; Zarathushtra’s cavations and covers a long period of time Footprints in Oluz Höyük, North-Central from the early stages of the Neolithic to the Anatolia; Central Anatolia in the 6th Century BC; The Persian King Xerxes end of the Early Chalcolithic. It introduces the stratigraphy of the settlement Route From Anatolia Towards Greece; The Late Iron Age in East Anatolia; Van periods and presents the finds, their evaluation, and analysis. Turkish text Gölü Havzasi - Agrı Dağı; Last Urartians in the Lake Van Basin and the Post- with comprehensive English summary. Urartian Period in the Highland of Eastern Anatolia; Achaemenid Period in the 274p, 134 col & b/w illus (Ege Yayınları, December 2019) hardcover, Lake Van Basin and Mt Agrı. English and Turkish text. 9786057673138, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 484p, col & b/w illus (Ege Yayınları, December 2019) paperback, 9786057673183, $89.00. Special Offer $72.00 Mors Immatura Amanosların Gölgesinde: Hayriye Biblical Turkey Akıl Anısına / In the Shadows of A Guide to the Jewish and Christian Amanus: In Memoriam Hayriye Akıl Sites of Asia Minor (updated & revised) edited by K. Serdar Girginer by Mark Wilson Contents include: A General Overview on Biblical Turkey is an authoritative and com- the Stepped Tunnels in Pontos Region; A prehensive guide to the ancient Jewish and Group of Late Bronze Age Faience Beads Christian sites in Turkey. It includes all the from Tatarlı Höyük; Transport Jars from references to cities, regions, provinces, and Tatarlı Höyük in Cilicia Pedias; Gods on natural features in the Hebrew Bible/Old the Mountain?; Optical Microscopy and Testament, Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals, X-Ray Diffraction) Studies of Ceramic Slag Samples from Tatarlı Höyük; Sirkeli New Testament, and Apostolic Fathers. Höyük; Archaeozoological Remains in Tatarlı Höyük. Turkish and English text. 408p, col illus (Ege Yayınları, April 2020) paperback, 9786057673299, $39.95. 542p (Ege Yayınları, June 2020) hardcover, 9786057673312, $119.00. Special Offer $32.00 Special Offer $96.00

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Pioneer to the Past The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist by Charles Breasted Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet produced. Breasted’s greatest achievement was the founding of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919, through the generous support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Oriental Institute embodies Breasted’s vision of an interdisciplinary research center that unites archaeology, textual studies, and art history as three complementary methodologies to provide a holistic understanding of ancient Near Eastern civilizations, and the ways that they laid the foundations for what we think of today as “Western civilization.” Breasted’s legacy continues to flourish today. Reprint of the Scribner’s Sons 1943 edition, with new foreword and photographs. 436p, illus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, August 2020) paperback, 9781614910534, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00

Metallurgica Anatolica The Damascus Psalm Fragment Festschrift für Ünsal Yalçın anlässlich Middle Arabic and the Legacy seines 65. Geburtstags / Ünsal Yalçın of Old H. igāzī 65. Yaşgünü Armağan Kitabı by Ahmad Al-Jallad edited by H. Gönül Yalçın This volume investigates Arabic’s trans- and Oliver Stegemeier formative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, Contents include: A Red Floor At Neolithic through a new approach. It asks, “What Barcın Höyük; Notes on the 5th Millen- would Arabic’s early history look like if nium BC of the Western Black Sea Region: we wrote it based on the documentary Idols from İnönü Cave; Tülintepe Revisited; evidence?” The book frames this question A Pithos Grave from Devret Höyük; The through the linguistic investigation of the Damascus Psalm Fragment, the Alişar 7M-11M - Ahlatlıbel - Çayyolu III-Horizon in Central Anatolia; Middle longest Arabic text composed in Greek letters from the early Islamic period. Bronze Age Metals in the Upper Euphrates; A Bronze ‘Horseman’ from Salat 160p, 31 illus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, May 2020, Late Tepe Dating to the 17th Century BC. English, Turkish, and German text. Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East 2) paperback, 9781614910527, 372p (Ege Yayınları, April 2020) hardcover, 9786057673329, $89.00. $39.95. Special Offer $32.00 Special Offer $72.00 KARIA ARKHAIA Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, La Carie, des origines à la période Turkey 11 pré-hékatomnide The Çetin Erdem Collection – edited by Olivier Henry and Phrygia and Koray Konuk by Oğuz Tekin and Arif Yacı This volume brings together 27 papers This catalog is the eleventh volume of devoted to the ‘early’ periods of Caria in the SNG Turkey Project and is part of the southwest Asia Minor. This publication Çetin Erdem Collection. All the coins were presents periods prior to the Hekatomnids bought between the years of 1995-2016 by offering hitherto unpublished archaeo- by himself, in Sarıgöl, where he lives. There logical material, resulting from recent are three historical sites which are nearby, (often rescue) excavations, and historical reassessments in the light of new these are Sardis, and Thyateira. discoveries. English, French, Turkish, and German text. 90p, 41 pls (Ege Yayınları, December 2019) hardcover, 9786057673060, 604p, col & b/w illus (Ege Yayınları, October 2019) paperback, 9782362450785, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 $74.00. Special Offer $60.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 25 Institut Français du Proche-Orient — Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner

Ras Ibn Hani II Les textes en écritures cunéiformes de l’âge du Bronze récent (fouilles 1977 à 2002) by Pierre Bordreuil, Dennis Pardee and Carole Roche-Hawley This book presents all the texts written in cuneiform script, alphabetic and logo-syllabic, in Ugaritic and in the Sumero- Akkadian languages, found during the excavations in the “northern palace” at Ras Ibn Hani (Syria). The Ugaritic texts are made available by way of facsimiles and photographs. It was not possible to do the same for the syllabic texts, due to the current conditions in Syria. However, the study of photographs has permitted them to be included in this collection. The texts and their analysis give us information on various aspects of Ugaritic culture in the middle of the 13th century BCE: foreign relations, trade and accounting practices, onomastics, scribal hands—in particular that of -Tab’ilu, Ugaritic language, cult, poetry. French text. 372p (Institut Francais du Proche Orient, December 2019, Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 214) paperback, 9782351597569, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00

La Guerre en Arabie Antique Sacralisé, Diabolisé Actes des 22e Rencontres sabéennes Le Paon dans les Religions Paris, 21–23 juin 2018 de l’Asie à la Méditerranée edited by Jean-François Breton by Christine Tortel and François Villeneuve The peacock has been at the top of the The 22nd Sabaean Rencontre brought scale of religious symbols from Asia to together historians, epigraphists and archae- the Mediterranean. Guardian of the Gates ologists working in the Arabian Peninsula, of the Beyond in archaic China, mount Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea islands and Oman. of the god of war in India, avatar of Gau- War was evoked in all its forms: its vocabu- tama Buddha, substitute of Dionysus in lary, its iconographic representations, its mystery cults after , ravages, its poliorcetics, and its means. The researchers, regretting that they the bird retained its value as a scout on the Ways of Salvation until Byzantine can no longer work in Yemen, presented their previous work and highlighted and post-Byzantine Christianity in the lands of Greco-Roman culture. But sud- the humanitarian tragedy that this country is experiencing. French text. denly, in the medieval West, it becomes an incarnation of the Devil, consid- 260p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, December 2019) paperback, ered too proud of its own beauty. The process of demonization proves all the 9782705340315, $49.50. Special Offer $40.00 more enigmatic in its causes as the clerics make him display some—and only some—of the vices that belong only to humans. French text. Les auteurs syriaques 494p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, May 2019, Varia) hardcover, 9782705339876, $99.50. Special Offer $80.00 et leur langue edited by Margherita Farina Nuit de Pleine Lune sur Amurru Despite the importance of the subject for Mélanges offerts à Leila Badre the understanding of Syriac culture, studies devoted to the history of language sciences edited by Françoise Briquel are relatively few. This volume presents itself Chatonnet, Emmanuelle Capet, Eric as a first invitation to an interdisciplinary Gubel and Carole Roche-Hawley approach to this major theme, bringing Studies of archaeology, epigraphy and Near together contributions from specialists in Eastern and Mediterranean history in honor grammatical theory, rhetoric, logic, but also of Leila Badre. French text. from literature, comparative linguistics, and more. French text. 446p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 264p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, March 2019, Études syriaques 15) December 2019) paperback, 9782705340278, paperback, 9782705340094, $67.50. Special Offer $54.00 $56.00. Special Offer $45.00

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Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls Banned Birds Periods of the Formation of the Bible The Birds of Leviticus 11 edited by Federico Giuntoli and Deuteronomy 14 and Peter Dubovsk by Peter Altmann A constant reevaluation of new archaeo- The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and logical and textual material unearthed and Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch of scholars. Since the overwhelming amount between the Priestly material and Deuter- of available data and the complexity of new onomy, yet study of them is often stymied methodologies can be competently handled by the rare terminology. This is especially only by specialized scholars, such a reevalu- the case for the birds: their identities are ation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this reason, archaeolo- shrouded in mystery and the reasons for their prohibition debated. Peter gists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists joined forces at an Altmann attempts to break this impasse by setting these flyers within the international conference in May 2017 to share their accumulated knowledge. broader context of birds and flying creatures in the Ancient Near East. 592p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Archaeology and Bible 3) paperback, 196p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Archaeology and Bible 1) paperback, 9783161582998, $223.00. Special Offer $179.00 9783161581632, $76.00. Special Offer $61.00

From Roman to Early Ephesos as a Religious Center Christian Cyprus under the Principate Studies in Religion and Archaeology edited by Allen Black, Christine M. edited by Laura Nasrallah, Thomas and Trevor W. Thompson Charalambos Bakirtzis Devotion to Artemis dominated the religious and Anne-Marie Luijendijk culture of ancient Ephesos. But she was not Cyprus was a crossroads in the ancient east- alone. The city of Ephesos and its environs ern Mediterranean, a key location in which offered a rich panoply of religious op- Judaism, Greco-Roman religions, and Chris- tions, domestic and public. Greek, Roman, tianity intersected. By drawing on literary, Egyptian, and Jewish religious traditions archaeological, and art historical evidence found loyal adherents among residents and from the first century CE to the medieval period, the volume elucidates the visitors. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that ancient Ephesos diversity of Christianity in late antique Cyprus. was a vibrant and competitive religious environment. 337p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen 280p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Testament 437) hardcover, 9783161568732, $202.00. Special Offer $162.00 Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161525155, $195.00. Special Offer $156.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 27 The Pillars of the First Temple Translating Empire (1 Kgs 7,15–22) Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, A Study from Ancient Near Eastern, and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition Biblical, Archaeological, and by C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton Iconographic Perspectives In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy by Daniel Prokop M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to The columns referred to as Jachin and Boaz translation practice in the Iron Age. The au- are certainly one of the most controversial thors build on and reinforce Crouch’s conclu- features of the First Temple of Jerusalem. sions in her former work about Deuteronomy In this volume, Daniel Prokop examines the and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employ- appearance and the meaning of the twin ing Hutton’s “Optimal Translation” theory to pillars by approaching them from different perspectives, including epigraphic analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. evidence from Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine. 357p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 135) 271p (Mohr Siebeck, April 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe hardcover, 9783161590269, $181.00. Special Offer $145.00 116) paperback, 9783161593222, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 Death Warning in the Tradition(en) im alten Israel Garden of Eden Konstruktion, Transmission The Early Reception History und Transformation of Genesis 2:17 edited by Ruth Ebach by Chris W. Lee and Martin Leuenberger In this book, Chris W. Lee examines the early The Old Testament is a work shaped by tradi- Jewish reception of the divine death warning tions, which at the same time lives through (Gen 2:16-17) in relation to its interpretative a multifarious use of traditions. These were association with the introduction of physical not imparted in unaltered form, but were death to humanity. He begins by examin- rather re-formed, corrected and refashioned ing the meaning in its original context, to provide a theological interpretation fitting then tracing its interpretation in subsequent literature. He continues with an to each period. Just how this was done is shown in the present volume, based exegetical analysis of allusions and references to the death warning. on the great Old Testament traditions, especially the Psalms and books of the 227p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe prophets. German text. 115) paperback, 9783161588587, $104.00. Special Offer $84.00 415p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 127) hardcover, 9783161548048, $191.00. Special Offer $153.00 Der Richter und seine Ankläger Eine narratologische Untersuchung der Rechtsstreit- Studien zum Dodekapropheton II und Prozessmotivik im Johannesevangelium Gesammelte Aufsätze zu Joel, Obadja, Jona, Micha und Nahum by Benjamin Lange by Jörg Jeremias, edited by Judith Gärtner and Friedhelm Hartenstein The Gospel according to John is replete with legal terminology and motifs The essays compiled in this volume supplement and deepen Jeremias’ com- detailing the run-up to Jesus’ crucifixion – yet a formal process in front of mentaries on Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, and Nahum. By combining exegeti- the Jewish Sanhedrin is not part of the narrative. Benjamin Lange shows cal perspectives on the individual books with insights gained into the genesis that reading the first half of the book as a metaphorical trial reveals a new of the Dodecapropheton as a whole, the collection is an excellent source of perspective on the Gospel and its message. German text. methodological impulses for research on the Book of the Twelve. German text. 416p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 380p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 133) Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 501) paperback, 9783161581694, $139.00. Special hardcover, 9783161582684, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 Offer $112.00

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Landscape History of Hadramawt The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998–2008 by Joy McCorriston and Michael J. Harrower The rugged highlands of southern Yemen are one of the less archaeologically explored regions of the Near East. This final report of survey and excavations by the RASA Project addresses the development of food production and human land- scapes. Along with data from Manayzah, site of the earliest dated remains of clearly domesticated animals in Arabia, the volume also documents some of the earliest water management technologies in Arabia, thereby anchoring regional dates for the beginnings of pastoralism and of potential farming. The authors argue that the initial Holocene inhabitants of Wadi Sana were Arabian hunters who adopted limited pastoral stock in small social groups. 554p (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, April 2020, Monumenta Archaeologica 43) hardcover, 9781950446124, $89.00. Special Offer $72.00; PDF e-book, 9781950446186, $72.00

Foreign Women – From Ordinary to Luxury Women in Foreign Lands Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Studies on Foreignness and Gender Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient by Pierre Siméon Near East in the First Millennium BCE This volume is based on the glazed and edited by Angelika Berlejung unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Col- and Marianne Grohmann lection, assembled from 1928–2018. The Scholars from different disciplines and work is a profound study of Central Asian methodological approaches explore ceramics and the author’s expertise and gender-specific constructions of foreignness/ hands-on experience as an archaeologist strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and are invaluable assets for the knowledge of Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They show that when com- Iranian and Central Asian pottery. This is a handbook for anyone interested in bined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Islamic ceramics from the Zagros to the borders of China. 299p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 35) 192p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, February 2020, Studies on The Bumiller hardcover, 9783161575907, $160.00. Special Offer $128.00 Collection 1) hardcover, 9783954903870, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00

The Storm-God and the Sea The Ancient South Arabian Royal The Origin, Versions, and Diffusion of a Edicts from the Southern Gate of Myth throughout the Ancient Near East Timna and the Gabal Labah by Noga Ayali-Darshan A New Edition with Philological This book examines works such as the and Historical Commentary Astarte Papyrus, the Pisaisa Myth, the Songs by Giovanni Mazzini of Hedammu and Ullikummi, the Baal Cycle, The kingdom of Qataban flourished in Enuma eliš, and pertinent biblical texts and South Arabia during the second half of the interprets these and other related writings first millennium BC. The present book is a philologically and comparatively. The exami- new edition with philological and historical nation of this story appearing in all ancient commentary of some of the most important Near Eastern cultures also calls for a discussion of the theology, literature, and royal edicts belonging to the Qatabanic corpus. These edicts give us a unique history of these societies. insight into the functioning and the institutions of the Qatabanian legal system. 303p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 37) 504p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, July 2020, Epigraphische Forschungen auf der hardcover, 9783161559549, $153.00. Special Offer $123.00 Arabischen Halbinsel 8) hardcover, 9783954904662, $165.00. Special Offer $132.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 29 Kohlhammer Verlag — Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum

Sasanidische Spuren in der byzantinischen, kaukasischen und islamischen Kunst und Kultur Sasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and Islamic Art and Culture edited by Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger and Falko Daim The empire of the Persian Sasanids (224–651 AD) extended over areas of present-day Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Af- ghanistan. The regions were also under its political influence. Many elements of Sasanid art and culture can be found in neighbouing countries like Byzantium and the Christian Caucasus. In order to examine the continued role of the Sasanid Persians and their culture, an international conference was held in September 2017 at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmu- seum in Mainz. The papers presented by scholars from various disciplines are published in this volume. German text. 198p (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, October 2019, Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum / Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 15) hardcover, 9783795434823, $54.00. Special Offer $44.00 About Death Penalty Reflections Die Loblieder (Hodayot) on Legal History aus Qumran From the Code of Hammurabi and Hebräisch mit masoretischer Punkta- Sumerian Precursors up to Germanic tion und deutscher Übersetzung, Law, the Roman Empire and the Einführung und Anmerkungen Middle Ages by Ulrich Dahmen by Volker Krey The so-called “Thanksgiving Scroll” texts This brief monograph deals with the death are similar to the biblical psalms, and are penalty from a legal history standpoint. After quite approachable to the modern reader some introductory remarks on pre-state soci- in terms of content. This German-Hebrew eties, the following historic eras are studied: study edition offers a close translation The Code of Hammurabi and Sumerian precursors, Germanic Law, the Roman of the texts and an extensive introduction, review of the literature, and Empire and the Middle Ages. endnotes with annotations to parallel points. German text. 45p (Kohlhammer Verlag, March 2019, Studienbücher Rechtswissenschaft) 136p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2019) paperback, 9783170354739, $32.00. paperback, 9783170367838, $25.00. Special Offer $20.00 Special Offer $26.00 Historiographie und Erzählkunst Schlaf und Schlaflosigkeit im in den Samuelbüchern Alten Testament und seinen Studien zu den Geschichtsüber- Nachbarkulturen lieferungen des Alten Testaments III by Ulrich Dällenbach by Walter Dietrich Sleep and with it waking are subject to social The Books of Samuel describe a specific time and situational values—sleep is meaning- in Israel’s history, and are thus histori- ful. The Old Testament also knows of this, ography—admittedly of a very special where sleep is reported, sleep is evaluated, kind—and they do so in an aesthetically tamed, avoided, suffered, longed for, dis- highly sophisticated manner, making them turbed, and used as a cipher for attitude to a literary work of art—also of a very special life or fate. When the texts of the Bible and kind. The studies presented here explore both aspects: first in a decidedly its environment speak of sleep, they don’t offer definitions but experiences, exegesis-oriented, historical-scientific approach, then in thematic longitudi- observations, and interpretations. German text. nal sections and in portraits of individual narrative figures. German text. 398p (Kohlhammer Verlag, April 2019, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und 354p (Kohlhammer Verlag, August 2019, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament 216) paperback, 9783170349827, $93.00. Special Offer $75.00 Neuen Testament 21) paperback, 9783170374362, $93.00. Special Offer $75.00

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A Manual of Sumerian IV – The Iron Age I Grammar and Texts Settlement Third, Revised and Expanded The Avraham Biran Excavations Edition (1966–1999) by John Hayes by Ilan This is an introductory pedagogical In this comprehensive final report grammar, designed for readers with no David Ilan and 12 other contributing previous knowledge of Sumerian or its authors present the rich finds from the writing system, to be used either with or Iron Age I (circa 1200-950 BCE) levels without a teacher. It includes a general at Tel Dan, gleaned in the course of description of the language and its Avraham Biran’s 1966-1999 excava- writing system, and a series of 22 lessons. Each lesson includes: sign-list and tions at the site. The architecture, ceramics, metal, flint, bone and ground vocabulary; cuneiform text(s); transliteration, transcription, and translation. stone objects and ecofacts, all contribute to the portrayal of a cosmopolitan 575p (Undena Publications, December 2019, Aids and Research Tools in Ancient society that thrived, initially, under Egyptian imperial rule, subsequently Near Eastern Studies 5) paperback, 9780979893742, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 forging its own way with the departure of Egyptian hegemony. The early hardcover, 9780979893735, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00 Iron Age levels at Tel Dan show material evidence for the presence of local peoples, Egyptians, Cypriots, Aegeans, and Syrians, who together, negotiated The Millennia for Today a new identity, as Danites. Archaeology Against War: 654p (Hebrew Union College Press, April 2020) hardcover, 9780878201822, Yesterday’s in Today’s $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Syria PDF e-book, 9780878201839, $100.00 by Giorgio Buccellati, Stefania Also available: Ermidoro and Yasmine Mahmoud Dan III This book, just like the exhibit that it illustrates, presents the very particular The Late Bronze Age story of an archaeological site in Syria by R. Ben-Dov during the recent eight years of war. 393p (Hebrew Union College Press, December 2011) hardcover, The ancient city of Urkesh, today Tell 9780878203093, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00 Mozan, in Northeastern Syria, became a center of activities that developed around the archaeological site, a strong and unexpected synergy between a Dan II variety of communities and social groups. In strong contrast with the destruc- A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age tive violence of war and the intentional and perverted iconoclastic fury of ‘Mycenaean Tomb’ ISIS, Urkesh has emerged as a source of hope and a reason of pride for the by A. Biran and R. Ben-Dov people who live in the area. In this perspective, the project became a model 249p (Hebrew Union College Press, December 2002, Annual of the Nelson of this new sensitivity that archaeology as a discipline is developing—a Glueck School of ) hardcover, 9780878203086, $48.00. sensitivity towards the value of the land as a shared element between the Special Offer $39.00 ancients and the people who live there today. 112p (Undena Publications, December 2019) paperback, 9780979893759, Dan I $10.00. Special Offer $8.00 A Chronicle of the Excavations, the Pottery Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age, and the Middle Bronze Age Tombs by A. Biran, D. Ilan, and R. Greenberg 320p (Hebrew Union College Press, December 1996) hardcover, 9780878203079, $52.00. Special Offer $42.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1695–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 31 Aarhus University Press — Dietrich Reimer Verlag

Nicator – Seleucus I and his Empire by Lise Hannestad When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion’s share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander’s successors. His tactical skills and military innovations—including his use of war elephants on a scale never seen before in the West—earned him the epithet Nicator, “victorious”. When he died at the hands of an assassin in 281 BC, Seleucus ruled over a larger territory than any other Hellenistic monarch, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Graeco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on the rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence. 182p (Aarhus University Press, June 2020) hardcover, 9788772191737, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00

Zeitschrift für Orient- Archäologie 12 (2019) Der Kaukasus zwischen edited by Ricardo Eichmann Osteuropa und Vorderem Orient and Margarete van Ess in der Bronze- und Eisenzeit: Contents: A New Mittani Centre on the Dialog der Kulturen, Middle Tigris: 2018 Excavations at Ke- Kultur des Dialoges mune; The Paintings at the Bilêcan Rock- Internationale Fachtagung für Shelter (Iraq); Literarische Bruchstücke die Archäologie des Kaukasus und aus Uruk, Teil 3; Rekonstruktion und Humboldt-Kolleg (5.—8. Oktober Interpretation der chaîne opératoire des 2015, Sankt Petersburg) Riemchengebäudes; Middle Islamic Pot- tery from Jerash; Rejoining a Palmyrene Funerary Relief; Early Iron Age Cop- edited by Maya T. Kašuba, Sabine per Trail Between Wadi Arabah and Egypt During the 21st Dynasty; Tell Halaf Reinhold und Jurij Ju. Piotrovskij (Northeast Syria) in the Achaemenid Period; A Glass Room in Abbasid Palaces, Contents include: Die Stratigrafie des Mešoko-Abris und das Problem der Reference to Solomon, and a ‘Unique’ Bottle in Tehra; Neolithic Settlement Wechselbeziehungen der Kulturen der Äneolithikum und der Bronzezeit im and Land Use Strategies in the Asaila Area. English and German text. Nordwestkaukasus; Die Leilatepe-Kultur und der Kaukasus; Der Majkop- 304p (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, February 2020) hardcover, 9783786128526, Kurgan (Ošad); Ikonographische Innovationen im Kaukasus; Technology $112.00. Special Offer $90.00 of pottery making in the Early Bronze Age of the Northwestern Caucasus; Cultural transmissions and the formation of the Silk Road directions in Central Zeitschrift für Orient- Asia in the second half of the 4th – the beginning of the 2nd mill. BC; Cau- Archäologie 11 (2018) casus and distant northwest connections in the 4th and 3rd mill. BC; The role of the related cultural milieu in the fate of the Caucasian center of culturo- edited by Ricardo Eichmann genesis; A Unified Terminology for the South-Caucasian “Early Bronze Age”; and Margarete van Ess Hügelgräber der frühen Bronzezeit in Ostgeorgien; The roots and chronology Contents include: Gudea Statue M; Excava- of the Early Catacomb ritual in the Northern Caucasus; The Late Bronze Age tions at Bassetki in 2017; The 2017 Season in the North Caucasus high mountain zone and beyond; To the question of of Excavations at Muqable III; Parthian relative chronology of the Late Bronze Age metalworking in the southern half Rock-Reliefs from Amādiya in Iraqi- of East Europe; Einige Bemerkungen zur Herstellung, zur Typologie und zur Kurdistan; The Ishtar Gate Area in Babylon; Verbreitung der spätbronze- und früheisenzeitlichen Metallgefäße; Seasonal Cooking Techniques and the Role of Cooks pastoral practices of Early Iron Age pastoralists of the southern part of the in an Early Urban Society; Bit Ištar and Russian Plain. English, German, and Russian text. Niššaya/Irnisa; Charax Spasinou. English, French, and German text. 616p, 18 col & 256 b/w illus (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, June 2020, Archäologie in 496p (Dietrich Reimer Verlag, March 2019) hardcover, 9783786128298, Iran und Turan 19) hardcover, 9783496016427, $162.00. Special Offer $130.00 $123.00. Special Offer $99.00

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A Study in the Syntax Demon Things of the Luwian Language Ancient Egyptian Manifestations by Federico Giusfredi of Liminal Entities The Ancient Anatolian corpora represent the edited by Kasia Szpakowska earliest documented examples of the Indo-Eu- In March 2016, scholars from around the ropean languages. In this book, an analysis of world gathered at Swansea University the syntactic structure of the Luwian phrases, for a conference dedicated to explor- clauses, and sentences is attempted, basing ing the range and variation of liminal on a phrase-structural approach that entails a entities that the ancient Egyptians mild application of the theoretical framework believed were capable of harm and help. of generative grammar. While obvious limits This inspired the papers in this volume, exist as regards the use of theory-driven models to the study and description which present a broad array of manifestations given to demons through of ancient corpus-languages, this books aims at demonstrating and illustrat- iconography, objects, or textual descriptions—all part of the vast numinous ing the main configurational features of the Luwian syntax. landscape of . 227p (Universitätsverlag Winter, August 2020, Texte der Hethiter 30) Contents: Underworld demons in the decoration of the large late Period Shaft paperback, 9783825347253, $60.00. Special Offer $48.00 Tombs at Abusir; Disease demons in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Sāmānu as a Case Study; The Anatomy of a Coffin Text demon; Liminal deities in the Bor- Guida di Palmyra derlands: Bes and Pataikos in Ancient Nubia; The B3w of Taweret: Vindictive- Omaggio a Khaled al-As’ad ness (and Forgiveness) of the Hippopotamus Goddess; Mnh., “The Butcher” martire del patrimonio culturale and lord of the Butcher demons; The Guardians of Menekhibnekau: Chapter 144 of the Book of the dead in the Shaft tomb of Menekhibnekau at Abusir; edited by Marco Di Branco Liminal Sources of dangerous Powers: A Case of the Black Ram; Baba and the and Maria Teresa Grassi Baboon demons; The Impact of the Manifestation of demoniacal Winds on This volume was born from the desire to Terrestrial life: The role of demon Gangs in dispersing the I3dt-rnpt; Symbolae celebrate Khaled Muhammad al-As’ad, a Sacrae: Symbolic Formulae for Protection and Adoration within the Quar- great archaeologist barbarously murdered ries of Gebel el-Silsila; A Particular depiction of Anubis from the Tomb of the in Palmyra in 2015 while defending Sculptor Nakhtamun (TT 335): Is Anubis a demon?; The Maned Hippopotamus the world heritage site from the violent at Lahun: Identifying homes and names; The Slaughterers: A Study of the and brutal destruction of terrorists who H3.tyw as liminal Beings in Ancient Egyptian Thought; Ghosts and Ancestors referred to themselves as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. His archaeologi- ˘in a Gender Pespective; Fear and loathing at Amarna: A Case Study of the cal guide to Palmyra, the “pearl” of the Syrian desert, to which he dedicated development of Sacred objects in response to Communal Anxiety. his entire existence as a scholar, is published here in Italian. The translation of 236p, col illus (Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, April 202, Journal As’ad’s book, accompanied by a rich iconographic apparatus, is preceded by of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 25) paperback, 9798636145790, $67.50. an essay that provides the reader with the historical-archaeological context to Special Offer $54.00 better understand the importance of the city in its ancient, late antique and medieval setting. The book concludes with a contribution that tries to histori- cally frame the problem of the Islamic attitude towards figurative art and the question of the destruction of “cultural goods” in Middle Eastern contexts. Italian text. 112p (Viella - libreria editrice, December 2019, I libri di Viella. Arte) paperback, 9788833132273, $32.00. Special Offer $26.00

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Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen edited by Roland Färber and Rita Gautschy This volume sheds light on the understanding and handling of time in ancient cultures. If time is viewed as a social con- struct and not just as a physical fact, chronological concepts, systems, and practices can provide important insights into the self-understanding and functioning of societies. The focus is on sources from ancient Egypt, the Near East, and the Greek and Roman worlds, dating from the 3rd millennium BC to Christian Late Antiquity. The spectrum ranges from paintings and reliefs, literary texts and documents, to instruments and buildings. In all contributions, related sources are recorded, technical aspects explained and the testimonies evaluated from a socio-cultural perspective. German text. 688p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, March 2020) hardcover, 9783412518158, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Berge als Widersacher Inter duo Imperia Studien zu einem Bergmotiv Palmyra between East and West in der jüdischen Apokalyptik edited by Michael Sommer by Peter Juhás In the Roman imperial period, Palmyra was In Jewish apocalypticism, a rare but clear situated at the crossroads of the intercon- motif can be traced: the mountain or tinental long-distance trade, in a political mountains as opponents to be defeated. and cultural twilight between the East and Such a motif can already be observed in the the West. How accurate is Pliny’s descrip- ancient sources, according to which it was tion of the oasis of Tadmur? How strongly associated with deities and kings. The motif was Roman influence felt in the city of mentioned is used in three works—1 Enoch Bel – and how did it develop over the cen- (Book of Parables), 2 Baruch and 4 Esra—in the context of the description turies? What was the significance of trade? And how did the close interaction of a messianic figure with the intention of presenting it as extraordinary. between sedentary and nomadic populations shape society in the oasis? The All three contexts have political connotations. In 2 Baruch and 1 Enoch the authors revisit the textual and material evidence on and from Palmyra in the mountains represent a political power (in 2 Baruch together with the forest) light of recent research, spanning five centuries of Near Eastern history. or its economic-military basis. The precursor of this motif can be found in the 167p (Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2020, Oriens et Occidens 31) paperback, oracle saying Zechariah 4,7, which also has political connotations. The later 9783515127745, $53.00. Special Offer $43.00 Apocalypses enriched the initially simple motif with elements of a description Zur intellektuellen Infrastruktur of theophany or elements of the divine warrior motif. German text. 190p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, March 2020, Mundus Orientis 2) des Rechts im Alten Orient hardcover, 9783525522080, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 by Guido Pfeifer Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit The highly differentiated legal system of the advanced civilizations of Mesopotamia has Teil 3: Babylonien, Urartu und die östlichen Gebiete been handed down in an enormous number by Ariel M. Bagg of cuneiform texts. By contrast, the intellec- The third and final part of the Neo-Assyrian toponyms in the series Répertoire tual infrastructure of law itself remains largely Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes is a two-volume set which comprises ap- hidden, since the surviving texts document proximately 1400 toponyms and further 500 fragmentary place names from the results, but not the processes of law- Babylonia, Urartu, and the eastern regions of the Assyrian Empire, as well as making and norm production. German text. corrections and additions to the previous parts. German text. 23p (Franz Steiner Verlag, July 2019, Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft an der 2 vols, 1104p, 1 map (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, May 2020, Tübinger Atlas Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main – Sitzungsberichte des Vorderen Orients – Beihefte 7.7.3) paperback, 9783954904303, $222.00. 56.1) paperback, 9783515124355, $11.00. Special Offer $9.00 Special Offer $178.00

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