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Introduction: Obergurgl 2013, or A New Dawn for the Melammu Project |
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| Robert Rollinger |
Old Battles, New Horizons: The Ancient Near East and the Homeric Epics |
5 |
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Talking to God(s): Prayers and Incantations |
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| Tzvi Abusch (Chair) |
Introduction |
35 |
| Cynthia Jean |
Performing Rituals in Secluded Places: A Comparison of the Akkadian and Hittite Corpus |
41 |
| Patrick M. Michel |
Worshipping Gods and Stones in Late Bronze Age Syria and Anatolia |
53 |
| Alan Lenzi |
The Language of Akkadian Prayers in Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and Its Significance within and beyond Mesopotamia |
67 |
| David P. Wright |
Ritual Speech in the Priestly-Holiness Prescriptions of the Pentateuch and Its Near Eastern Context |
107 |
| Alberto Bernabé |
To Swear to Heaven and Earth, from Mesopotamia to Greece |
125 |
| Martin Lang (Respondent) |
Response |
135 |
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Et Dona Ferentes: Foreign Reception of Mesopotamian Objects |
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| D.T. Potts (Chair) |
Introduction |
143 |
| Giacomo Bardelli |
Eastern Influences in Etruria and Central Italy between the Orientalizing and the Archaic Period: The Case of Tripod-Stands and Rod Tripods |
145 |
| Winfried Held and Deniz Kaplan |
The Residence of a Persian Satrap in Meydancıkkale, Cilicia |
175 |
| Joachim Ganzert |
On the Archetype of Sacral Rulership Legitimization and the Lower Court in the Lüneburg Town Hall |
193 |
| Ann Gunter (Respondent) |
Response |
221 |
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'Fighting like a Lion': The Use of Literary Figures of Speech |
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| Simone Paganini (Chair) |
Introduction |
227 |
| Sebastian Fink |
Metaphors for the Unrecognizability of God in Balaĝs and Xenophanes |
231 |
| Johannes Haubold |
'Shepherds of the People': Greek and Mesopotamian Perspectives |
245 |
| Krzysztof Ulanowski |
The Metaphor of the Lion in Mesopotamian and Greek Civilization |
255 |
| Amar Annus and Mari Sarv |
The Ball Game Motif in the Gilgamesh Tradition and International Folklore |
285 |
| Thomas R. Kämmerer (Respondent) |
Response |
297 |
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Mesopotamia and the World: Interregional Interaction |
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| Giovanni B. Lanfranchi (Chair) |
Introduction |
307 |
| Reinhard Pirngruber |
šulmu jâši libbaka lu ṭābka : The Interaction between the Neo-Assyrian King and the Outside World |
317 |
| André Heller |
Why the Greeks Know so Little about Assyrian and Babylonian History |
331 |
| Julien Monerie |
Writing Greek with Weapons Singularly Ill-designed for the Purpose: The Transcription of Greek in Cuneiform |
349 |
| Krzysztof Nawotka |
Alexander the Great in Babylon: Reality and Myth |
365 |
| Birgit Gufler and Irene Madreiter |
The Ancient Near East and the Genre of Greek historiography |
381 |
| Simonetta Ponchia (Respondent) |
Response |
397 |
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The World of Politics: 'Democracy', Citizens, and 'Polis' |
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| Kurt Raaflaub (Chair) |
Introduction |
413 |
| Kristoffer Momrak |
Identifying Popular Power: Who Were the People of Ancient Near Eastern City-States? |
417 |
| Kurt Raaflaub |
Lion’s Roar and Muses' Song: Social and Political Thinking in Early Greek Poets and Early Israelite Prophets |
433 |
| Sabine Müller |
A History of Misunderstandings? Macedonian Politics and Persian Prototypes in Greek Polis-Centered Perspective |
459 |
| Raija Mattila (Respondent) |
Response |
481 |
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Iran and Early Islam |
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| Lucian Reinfandt (Chair) |
Introduction |
487 |
| Aleksandra Szalc |
Semiramis and Alexander in the Diodorus Siculus' Account (II 4-20) |
495 |
| Tim Greenwood |
Oversight, Influence and Mesopotamian Connections to Armenia Across the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods |
509 |
| Lutz Berger |
Empire-building and State-building between Late Antiquity and Early Islam |
523 |
| Josef Wiesehöfer (Respondent) |
Response |
533 |
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Representations of Power: Shaping the Past and the Present |
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| Sabina Franke (Chair) |
Introduction |
539 |
| Mario Fales |
Looking the God in the Eye: Sennacherib's Bond with Destiny, from Rock Reliefs to Cylinder Seals |
543 |
| Dirk Wicke |
Assyrian or Assyrianized: Reflections on the Impact of Assyrian Art in Southern Anatolia |
561 |
| Rocío Da Riva |
Enduring Images of an Ephemeral Empire:Neo-Babylonian Inscriptions and Representations on the Western Periphery |
603 |
| Christoph Schäfer |
Inspiration and Impact of Seleucid Royal Representation |
631 |
| Jonathan Valk and Beate Pongratz-Leisten (Respondent) |
Response |
643 |
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List of Contributors |
653 |
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Index |
657 |
