57th RENCONTRE ASSYRIOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONALE Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East 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 Jerusalem, 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)