57th RENCONTRE ASSYRIOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONALE

Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient

Sapienza - Università di Roma 4-8 July 2011

PROGRAMME (Last update: 21/06/2011 19:40)

Sunday 3rd July 2011 (p.m.) ARA PACIS (via di Ripetta / Lungotevere in Augusta) 17:00-19:00 Registration and Visit (entrance fort the visit: until 6:00 p.m.) Monday 4rth July 2011 (a.m.) MUSEO DELL'ARTE CLASSICA (building: Lettere e Filosofia) 9:00 Registration Monday 4rth July 2011 (a.m.) AULA MAGNA, RETTORATO Welcoming session 10:00 Prof. Luigi Frati, Rector of Sapienza - Università di Roma Prof. Marta Fattori, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sapienza – Università di Roma Prof. Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) President of the IAA Opening session Chairperson Irene J. Winter (Harvard University) 10.30 Claus Wilcke (Universität Leipzig), Law and literature in the 3rd millennium B.C. and beyond 11:00 Stefan Maul (Universität Heidelberg), Rückwärts schauend in die Zukunft - Utopien des Alten Orients 11:30 John David Hawkins (British Academy) The soul in the stone? (lunch break) Monday 4rth July 2011 (p.m.) BUILDING LETTERE E FILOSOFIA AULA I AULA PARTENONE AULA ODEION Chair: Jerrold S. Cooper Chair: Mario F. Fales Chair: Stefania Mazzoni (The Johns Hopkins University) (Università di Udine) (Università di Firenze) 14:15 Joan Goodnik Westenholz (ISAW), Tradition and Melanie Groß (Universität Wien), Innovation and Chikako Watanabe (Osaka Gakuin University), An innovation in the legendary corpus of the Akkadian tradition within the sphere of Neo-Assyrian innovation approach to tracing environmental changes kings officialdom in ancient Mesopotamia: Echohistory of salinisation and aridification in Iraq 14: 45 Dina Katz (Leiden University), Myth and ritual - from Peter Dubovsky (Pontifical Biblical Institute), Neo- Elizabeth Wheat (University of Birmingham), tradition to innovation and back Assyrian intelligence network: old tradition reshaped Labyrinths in Babylonia and the Ancient Near East by the Sargonic kings 15:15 Jakob Klein (Bar-Ilan University), The stars (of) Raija Mattila (University of Helsinki), Late eponyms - Astrid Verhulst (Ghent University), It's all relative: Heaven and cuneiform writing Signs of change in the ideology and administration of Old Babylonian Sippar seals as markers of family the Neo-Assyrian empire tradition 15:45 (coffee break) Chair: Jerrold S. Cooper Chair: Mario F. Fales Chair: Stefania Mazzoni 16:15 John Wee (Yale University), Lugalbanda in the Frauke Weiershäuser (Universität Heidelberg), Lexical Maria Sologubova (Saint-Petersburg State University), mountain cave: an early Mesopotamian model of tradition and schooltexts in Assur Tradition and innovation in Mesopotamian glyptic of celestial healing Kassite times 16:45 Petr Charvat (University of West Bohemia) A tale of Eleanor Robson (Cambridge University), Scholarly Karen Sonik (New York University), Symmetry, twin cities - archaeology and the Sumerian King List literacies in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia frontality, and small gods: a unique tradition of representation in the Old Babylonian terracotta reliefs? 17:15 Xianhua Wang (Peking University), The ideological Amitai Baruchi-Unna (Hebrew University , innovation of Lugalzagesi Haifa University), Formularies vs. creativity. Traces of administrative documents in Assyrian royal inscriptions

CAFFÈ DELLE ARTI (via Gramsci 73) 19:45 Reception Tuesday 5th July 2011 (a.m.) AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: T.J.H. Krispijn Chair: Barbara Nevling Porter OFFICINA: FROM PARENTS TO CHILDREN (Leiden University) (Casco Bay Assyriological Institute) 9:15 Salvatore Monaco, More on pre-Sargonic Umma Aaron Schmitt (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Tradition und Wandel in Assyrien am Alfonso Archi (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Beispiel der Ischtar-Tempel in Assur Presentation - Ebla 9: 45 Richard E. Averbeck (Trinity Evangelical Divinity Maria Gabriella Micale (Sapienza - Università di Steven Garfinkle (Western Washington University), School), Temple estate and clan region in Gudea's Roma), Images of architecture in Neo-Assyrian Family firms in the Ur III Period Lagash reliefs: perception and reproduction of architectural space over three centuries 10:15 Ludek Vacin (Max Planck Institute for the History David Kertai (Universität Heidelberg), Sleeping Michel Tanret (Ghent University), Old Babylonian of Science, Berlin), Tradition and innovation in through change. The king's suite in Late Assyrian Sippar and the transmission of titles/crafts within Shulgi's concept of divine kingship royal palaces families 10:45 (coffee break) Chair: Grant Frame Chair: Barbara Nevling Porter Chair: Michel Tanret (University of Pennsylvania) 11:15 Manuel Ceccarelli (Universität Tübingen), Einige Nicolas Gillmann (UMR), Innovation and tradition Jeanette Fincke (Leiden University), Profession and Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Beschwörungen in Neo-Assyrian iconography Family in Nuzi des 'Marduk-Ea-Typs': die Rolle Ellils 11:45 Vladimir Emelianov (St.-Petersburg State Paola Poli (Università di Ferrara), A group of seals Wilfred van Soldt (Leiden University), Crafts and University), Formula of Isin hymns as the source of and seal impressions from the Neo-Assyrian colony craftsmen at Ugarit the dating of Sumerian narrative compositions Tell Masaikh-Kar-Assurnasirpal with ancient motifs 12:15 Simonetta Ponchia (Università di Verona), Silvana Di Paolo (ICEVO-CNR), Urartu vs. Giulia Torri (Università di Firenze), Hereditary Composition and hermeneutics: looking for Assyria: reconsidering concepts of imitation, transmission of specialized knowledge in Hittite elaboration strategies in Assyro-Babylonian emulation, interpretation in Art Anatolia literary texts (lunch break)

ABI ­ ASSOCIAZIONE BANCARIA ITALIANA Piazza del Gesù, 49 Sala Verde 1° Piano 9:30 ASSIRIOLOGIA ED ECONOMIA: DISCIPLINE A CONFRONTO Chair: Pietro Mander (IUO Napoli) Odoardo Bulgarelli (Economist), Introduction Francesco Pomponio (Università di Messina), Some scraps of information and discussion about the Economy of the Third Millennium Babylonia Cécile Michel (CNRS), Economic and social aspects of the Old Assyrian Loan Contracts Marc van de Mieeroop (Columbia University), The contract and the Old Babylonian Economy Michael Jursa (Universität Wien), Money, Monetization and the Transformation of the Agrarian Economy in Babylonia in the Sixth and Fifth Century BC Discussion Chair: Gianni Toniolo (Duke University) 13:00

Tuesday 5th July 2011 (p.m.)

AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: Annette Zgoll Chair: Lorenzo Nigro Chair: Jeanette Fincke (Universität Göttingen) (Sapienza – Università di Roma) (Leiden University) 14:15 Gabriel Gösta Ingvar (Universität Göttingen), The Jesús Gil Fuensanta (Universidad Autónoma de Heather Baker (Universtität Wien), In my father's rise of Marduk in Enuma elish between tradition Madrid), Where are the Uruk necropolis? Regional footsteps? The transmission of offices, professions and innovation innovation or change in tradition? and crafts within the family in the Neo-Assyrian period 14: 45 Anastasia Moskaleva (Saint Petersburg State Giacomo Benati (Università di Torino), Changes Michael Jursa / Klaus Wagensonner (Universtität University), Protective formula in Mesopotamian through time: the Pit F sequence at Ur revisited Wien), Families, officialdom and families of officials royal inscriptions (III-II mil. BC) in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia 15:15 Rosel Pientka-Hinz (Universität Marburg), Dances Rick Hauser (IIMAS), Reading figurines: animals Chair: Francis Joannes with snakes representations in terra cotta from Urkesh, the first (Université de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne) Hurrian capital (2450 BCE) Daniel Bodi (Université de Strasbourg), The traditional claims of an illustrious ancestor in craftmanship and in wisdom 15:45 (coffee break) Chair: Jesper Eidem Chair: Lorenzo Nigro Chair: Francis Joannes (Leiden University) 16:15 Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan, Ann Enrico Ascalone (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Jonathan Taylor (The British Museum), Neo- Arbor), Literary Arrest and Movement in Old Awan vs Akkad. Origin and formation of an Babylonian copies of ancient inscriptions Babylonian Schooling Elamite style and iconography 16:45 Katrien De Graef (Ghent University), Cherchez la Ann Shafer (The American University in Cairo), Jürgen Lorenz (Universität Marburg), femme! Brotherhood adoption in Susa and The present in the past: the Nahr el-Kalb reliefs Spätbabylonische Urkunden: Original, Kopie, elsewhere reconsidered and the continuity of tradition? Abschrift 17:15 Lotte Oers, Pledge of Suseans - Babylonian Nicolò Marchetti (Università di Bologna), Claus Ambos (Universität Heidelberg), The tradition and Elamite innovation concerning Diachronic changes in the Bronze and Iron Ages foundation legend of the hellenistic temple of Anu in economic security in Old Babylonian Susa occupation patterns at Tasli Geçit Hoyuk (Islahiye, Uruk - invention of tradition or historical fact? Turkey) 17:45 Ilya Arkhipov (Russian Academy of Sciences), La Luigi Turri (Università di Udine), The ponderal Malgorzata Sandowicz (University of Warsaw), notion de šurubtum (mu-DU) dans la comptabilité system(s) at Qatna Nebuchadnezzar II the reformer paléobabylonienne Guided visit of MUSEO DELL'ARTE CLASSICA (GALLERY OF THE PLASTER CASTS) at 15.00 (at the desks) Wednesday 6th July 2011 (a.m.) AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: Marten Stol Chair: Michael Roaf Chair: Paul Delnero (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (Universität München) (The Johns Hopkins University) 9:15 Christopher Frechette (Boston College School of EBLA AND OFFICINA: SUMERIAN AKKADIAN Theology and Ministry), Textual evidence for shu- LINGUISTIC íl-lá as signifying a formal gesture communicating Paolo Matthiae (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Walther Sallaberger (Universitä München), Change submission and loyalty to the deity Cult architecture at Ebla between Early Bronze and innovation in the Sumerian lexicon in the Third IVA and Middle Bronze I. Continuity and Millennium innovation in the formative phase of a great tradition 9: 45 Marina Redina (Russian Academy of Science), Frances Pinnock (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Fumi Karahashi (Chuo University), Change and Kassite administrative documents: traditional and From Ebla to Guzana: the image of power in Syria continuity: the case of the Sumerian enclitic copula - innovative aspects between the Bronze and Iron Age am6/am3 10:15 Susanne Paulus (Universität Münster), Ein Rita Dolce (Università di Roma Tre), Tradition and Paul Delnero (The Johns Hopkins University), The außergewöhnlicher Text aus der frühen innovation in the wooden carvings of Ebla: an Sumerian verbal prefixes mu-ni- and mi-ni- Kassitenzeit open question 10:45 (coffee break) Chair: Marten Stol Chair: Michael Roaf Chair: Christian Hess (Universität Leipzig) 11:15 Herbert B. Huffmon (Drew University), Prophecy Luca Peyronel (IULM Milano), Urban planning Gábor Zólyomi, How to teach a website to Sumerian in the Mari texts as an innovative development and spatial distribution of industrial activities at Ebla. Some reflections on continuity and change between the Early and Old Syrian Period 11:45 Stefan Jakob (Universität Heidelberg), Die Marco Ramazzotti (Sapienza - Università di Szylvia Sovegjarto, Getting on the equative's case Beharrlichkeit des Erinnerns Roma), The aesthetical lexicon of Ebla’s composite art during the age of the archives. An innovative visual representation of words and concepts inside the Early Dynastic technology of the images 12:15 Christine Proust (CNRS & Université Paris Licia Romano (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Kamran Zand (Universität Heidelberg), How a Diderot), Mathematical catalogues and series texts: The queen and the veil. Analysis of the Eblaite scribe learned to read 'Writings from before the from archiving to the exploration of new problems votive plaque Flood' (lunch break) Wednesday 6th July 2011 (p.m.) AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: Herbert Niehr Chair: Francesca Baffi Chair: Walther Sallaberger (Universität Tübingen) (Università del Salento) 14:15 Alvise Matessi (Università di Pavia), The territorial Andrea Polcaro (Università di Perugia), The bone Leonid Kogan (Russian State University Moscow) administration of the LBA kingdom of Mukish talisman and the ideology of ancestors in Old and Manfred Krebernik (Universität Jena), The (Alalah IV): state, society and geography, in further Syrian Ebla: tradition and innovation in the royal Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian: presentation comparison with the situation of Alalah VII (MBA) funerary ritual iconography of a project 14: 45 JoAnn Scurlock (Elmhurst College), Death and the Sara Pizzimenti (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Sergei Loesov (Russian State University Moscow), maidens: continuity in change at Ugarit A hare in the land of lions. Analysis and The Akkadian stative: is it 'young' or 'old'? interpretation of the leporid symbol in Ebla and its relationship with the Old Syrian Culture 15:15 Matthew Rutz (Brown University), Tradition, Maria Giovanna Biga (Sapienza - Università di Christian Hess (Universität Leipzig), Lexical contact, innovation: communities of languages, Roma), Tradition and innovation in the foreign innovations in Middle Babylonian literature script and text in Late Syria politics of Ebla kingdom in the archives period 15:45 (coffee break) Chair: Herbert Niehr Chair: Francesca Baffi Chair: Nils Heeßel (Heidelberg) 16:15 Maurizio Viano, Writing Sumerian in the West Alessandro Roccati (Università di Torino), The Mogens Trolle Larsen (University of Copenhagen), northern borders of Egypt in the 3rd Millennium Innovation and change in Old Assyrian society BC 16:45 Marie-Françoise Besnier (Cambridge University), Marta D'Andrea - Agnese Vacca (Sapienza - Shigeo Yamada (University of Tsukuba), New The Divination Series šumma alu in Sultantepe and Università di Roma), Syria and Palestine at the end adoption contract from Tell Taban and the Hana- Nimrud, in comparison with the Nineveh and Aššur of the Early Bronze Age: confronting regional type scribal tradition Manuscripts narratives 17:15 Greta van Buylaere (Cambridge University), Feyssal Abdallah (Université de Damas), Denis Lacambre (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille Huzirina revisited: An Assyrian scribal school in L'innovation de l'histoire cunéiforme de Damas à 3), Nouvelles découvertes épigraphiques à Chagar Aramaic territory la lumière de deux nouvelles textes récemment Bazar/Ashnakkum (2005-2010) trouvés à Damas 17:45 Pamela Barmash (Washington University in St. Alessio Palmisano (University College London), Massimo Maiocchi (Università Ca' Foscari Louis), Scribal education and legal terminology Geo-political patterns and connectivity in the Upper Venezia), Continuity and change in Third Khabur in the Middle Bronze Age Millennium calendrical systems: the issue of the intercalary month in the Sargonic sources Guided visit of MUSEO DELL'ARTE CLASSICA (GALLERY OF THE PLASTER CASTS) at 15.00 (at the desks) Thursday 7th July 2011 (a.m.) AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: Karlheinz Kessler Chair: Massimo Forlanini Chair: Hartmut Waetzoldt (Universität Würzburg) (Universität Heidelberg) 9:15 Jaume Llop Raduà (Universitat de Barcelona), The ANATOLIA OFFICINA: ARTISANS AND PROFESSIONS IN implantation of the Middle Assyrian provincial THE UR III PERIOD system Vladimir Shelestin (State Academic University Walter Sallaberger (Universität München), The Moscow), Hittite-Kizzuwatnean relations social context of crafts in the Ur III empire and reconsidered: traditions and innovations in the Early Mesopotamian traditions Late Old Hittite geopolitical thought 9: 45 Sabina Franke (Universität Hamburg), Der Craig Melchert (University of California, Los Lorenzo Verderame (Sapienza - Università di Kultsockel des Tukulti-Ninurta Angeles), Reciprocity and commerce in Bronze and Roma), Sculptors and statues in Neo-Sumerian Iron Age Anatolia sources 10:15 Paola Negri Scafa (ENEA), Continuity and Andrey Sideltsev (Russian Academy of Sciences), Paola Paoletti (Universität München), Footwear in discontinuity in a Nuzi scribal family Clitic doubling in Hittite? the 3rd millennium BC: its administration, veriety and tecniques 10:45 (coffee break) Chair: Karlheinz Kessler Chair: Massimo Forlanini Chair: David I. Owen (Cornell University) 11:15 Dave Deuel (The Masters Academy International), Maria Elena Balza - Clelia Mora (Université de Christina Tsouparopoulou (Max Planck Institute for Letters in administrative mission at provincial Limoges - Università di Pavia), Memory and the History of Science, Berlin), Leather workers, Arrapha tradition of the Hittite empire in post-Hittite period carcass disposers, storeroom officials or just more bureaucrats? 11:45 Anne Löhnert (Universität München), Aspects of Fernando Escribano Martín (Universidad Angela Greco (Sapienza - Università di Roma - Freie royal authority and local competence. The case of Autónoma de Madrid), Il Dio della tempesta: Universität Berlin), Professional figures and Nuzi tradizione e innovazione in un dio principale. Un administrative roles in the garden management of Ur esempio di sincretismo III Girsu 12:15 Pierre Bordreuil, Les textes en cunéiforme Erik van Dongen (University of Helsinki), The alphabétique de Ras Shamra-Ougarit 1994-2002: overland route: intra-Anatolian interaction, ca. quelques données nouvelles 1100-540 BCE (lunch break) Thursday 7th July 2011 (p.m.) UNIVERSITÀ PONTIFICIA GREGORIANA (Piazza della Pilotta) 14:30-17:30 General Meeting

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

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

Friday 8th July 2011 (a.m.) AULA I AULA ODEION AULA VETRI Chair: Jack M. Sasson Chair: Elena Rova Chair: Gregorio Del Olmo Lete (Vanderbilt University) (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) (IPOA, Universitat de Barcelona) 9:15 Michele Maggio (Universität Heidelberg), Fabrice De Backer (Université Catholique de Reinhard Pirngruber (Vrije Universiteit L'ornamentation des dieux à l'époque paléo- Louvain / Université de Strasbourg) An Amsterdam) Impact of empire: An innovative babylonienne: tradition et innovation experimental armour from the Early 1st millennium approach to the commodity price series of the BC Astronomical Diaries, ca.400-60 BC 9: 45 Martin Worthington (SOAS, London), Some Elynn Gorris (Université Catholique de Louvain), Nils Heeßel (Heidelberg), Creating texts. Towards comments on the mechanism of textual change Musical instruments at Tell Tweini (Syria) an understanding of the emergence of standardized scholarly texts in middle-Babylonian times 10:15 Mikko Luukko (University College London), Olivier Rouault - Maria Grazia Masetti- Rouault Pavel Cech (University of Prag), Amurru in der Standardisation and variation in the introductory (Université Lyon 2 - École Pratiques des Hautes königlichen Ideologie und Tradition: von Ebla bis formulas in Neo-Assyrian letters Études), Recent researches in the Erbil region: Izrael 2011 excavations in Qasr Shemamok - Kilizu (Iraqi Kurdistan) 10:45 (coffee break) Chair: Jack M. Sasson Chair: Elena Rova Chair: Gregorio Del Olmo Lete 11:15 Krysztof Ulanowski (University of Gdansk), The Christos G. Karagiannis (University of Athens), The Agnès Garcia Ventura - Jordi Vidal (Universitat ritual of power. The Akkadian tradition in Neo- Assyrian Tree of Life and the Jewish menorah Pompeu Fabra - Universitat Autònoma de Assyrian policy Barcelona), Oriental studies and fascism: past and present in Spanish historiography 11:45 Caroline Waerzegger (University College Tommaso De Vincenzi (Sapienza - Università di Natia Phiphia (Javakhishvili Tbilisi State London), The loss of native kingship in Roma), Fortifications and arming as analytical University), Accademician S. Janashia and his Mesopotamia elements for a social-policy evolution in Anatolia opinion about the connection of the Kartvelians with in early Bronze Age the Hittites and the Hurrians 12:15 Parsa Daneshmand, New phraseology and literary Elisa Girotto (Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia), Anna Meshki (Gori University), The mother tongue: style in the Babylonian version of the Achaemenid Rope and yoke in Ancient Mesopotamia: Variations sources and dechipherment inscriptions on a long-lasting image

AULA PARTENONE OFFICINA: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE TERMINOLOGY FOR POLITICAL FORMATIONS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 9:15 Cristina Di Bennardis (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Philology, Archaeology and Social Theories: a necessary Collaboration to understand the State Processes in the Ancient Near East 9: 45 Xianhua Wang (Peking University), The Relevance of Michael Mann to Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 10:15 Christopher Brinker, Akkad and Augustus: A New Theory of Empire and its Application to the Empire of Akkad 10:45 (coffee break) 11:15 Alessandro Di Ludovico (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Reflections on the Social-Political Relationships in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia 11:45 María Rosa Oliver (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Les formations étatiques anciennes et les relations entre les sexes: une omission délibéré? Mari: le genre et la politique sous le règne de Zimri-Lîm 12:15 Eleonora Ravenna (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Tradition and Innovation in the Studies of Ancient Near Eastern States