The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

Melammu
The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium
of the Melammu Project
Held in Sophia, Bulgaria, September 1-3, 2008

Edited by Markham J. Geller
With the cooperation of Sergei Ignatov
and Theodor Lekov

The cover of Melammu Symposia 6: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization

Information - Table of contents - Program

	Symposium Program
	Monday, September 1

09:00	Registration
10:15	Sergei Ignatov & A. Panaino: "Welcome"

10:30	Baruch Levine: "Global Monotheism. The Contribution of the Israelite Prophets"
11:15	Miroslav Salvini: "The Spread of cuneiform culture to the Urartian north"
12:00	Sergei Ignatov: "The sun religion of Akhenaten. Is it a Monotheistic Religion?"

	12:30 Lunch break
	Session Two: Globalisation and Mesopotamia / Egypt (Chair: Simo Parpola)

14:15	Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault: "Globalization, Imperialism, and Back. Political and Ideologic reactions to Assyrian presence in Syria (IXth -VIIIth Century BC)"
15:00	Cynthia Jean: "Globalisation in literature. Re-examining the Gilgamesh affair"
15:30	Adrienn Nagy: "Bes, Hathor, and the Nimrud Bowl"

16:30	Rumen Kolev: "The Babylonian astrolabe. Astronomical analysis and dating"
17:00	Nineb Lamassu: "Gilgamesh's plant of rejuvenation and Qatine's Sisisambar"
17:30	Simo Parpola: "Globalisation of Religion: Jewish Cosmology in its Ancient Near Eastern Context"

	Tuesday, September 2
	Session Three: Globalisation and the Eastern Mediterranean (Chair: Philippe Talon)

10:00	Magda Tatulescu: "Hermeneutics of Suspicion. The Combat Myth in the early First Millennium BC"
10:30	A. Panaino: "Power and Ritual in the Achaemenian Royalty"

11:30	Jorrit M. Kelder: "The role of olives and olive oil in prestige gift exchange between Mycenae and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age"
12:00	Kristoffer Momrak: "Ancient Near Eastern politics and the Greek polis. Secondary states, structural similarities and the problem of diffusion"

	12:30 Lunch break
	Session Four: Globalisation and India (Chair: Jens Braarvig)

14:00	Klaus Karttunen: "India and the world trade. From the beginnings to the Hellenistic Age"
14:30	Tzvi Abusch & Emily Blanchard West: "Ancient Near Eastern borrowings in the Mahabharata"
15:30	Trip to Historical Museum, Sofia
18:00	Reception

	Wednesday, September 3
	Session Five: Globalisation and Iran (Chair: Béatrice André-Salvini

10:00	Andrea Gariboldi: "Elements of globalisation in ancient Iranian Numismatics"
10:30	Velizar Sadovski: "Old Indian and Old Iranian ritual poetry. Problems of language and ritual pragmatics of Vedic and Avestan hymns"

	13:00 Lunch break
	Session Seven: Globalisation and Greece (Chair: Yuri Stoyanov)

14:30	Maya Vassileva: "Phrygian bronzes in the Greek world. Globalisation through cult?"
15:00	Erik van Dongen & Christina Tsouparopoulou: "The Melammu Website. What we have to offer, and how you could contribute"
15:30	Peter Dimitrov: "Greek and Anatolian linguistics"

	Thursday, September 4
	Organised trip to the Rila Monastery