by Jan M.F. Van Reeth. — In French. Everywhere one could see a Lady appearing in Minoan times, traditionally interpreted, from the times of her discovery at the beginning of the 20th Century, as a Mother Goddess, Mistress of the Animals, graciously protecting crops, harvests, offspring and seasons. This book presents her in a very different way (details).
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Lena Pleuger (ed.) — Different perceptions of the Nile and the sea are proposed in this work. The first one concerns mobility and travel (pilgrimage, commercial, or military) whether within Egypt itself or beyond its borders. The second axis of reflection focuses on philological and linguistic elements related to the register of water. Finally, the last axis refers to the Nile and the sea perceived as mythical elements.… (Details)
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Marie Claude TRÉMOUILLE. — Parmi les nombreux textes qui décrivent des cérémonies cultuelles, ceux qui illustrent des transports de divinités hors de leur lieu de résidence habituel appartiennent aux «cultes locaux»…
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Valentina BELFIORE et al. — The article will present two bronze statuettes from the surroundings of the modern town of Cascia (Perugia, Italy), which can instead be dated to the pre-Roman phase and may represent the goddess Vacuna…
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Fabrice DE BACKER. — This paper deals with the exodus of the enemy deities after an Assyrian victory between Ashurnazirpal II and Ashurbanipal…
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Éric RAIMOND. — Through a philological study and a new translation of the Hiero’s mythological chronicle (TAM II.174), I focuss on the epiphany of stone images of Artemis in Pinara and Apollo in Lopta…
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Adolfo ZAVARONI. — In the valley of Ospitale (Modena province), in two sites where there is the greatest concentration of Ligurian inscriptions, the divine name Istios is associated with birds and the god himself is depicted as a bird-headed anthropomorphic…
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Marco CAVALIERI. — The paper provides a brief overview of the Greek ‘colonisation’ of Sicily (mid-eighth to mid-sixth century BC) and of the presence of ceramics attesting to the migration towards the West…
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Alessio AGOSTINI, Davide D’IMPERIO. — Les abécédaires, soit des documents épigraphiques qui présentent une succession ordonnée de lettres, constituent dans le monde sémitique une catégorie textuelle plutôt composite susceptible de donner lieu à plusieurs interprétations…
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Federico GIUSFREDI. — In this paper, I will reassess the merit of the metaphor of the ‘club’ of the Great Kings as a descriptive model of the political and diplomatic dynamics of the Ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age…
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Mattias KARLSSON. — The Amarna letters, dated to the 14th century BCE, are widely seen as the earliest written evidence for contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Fourteen of the Amarna letters (EA 1-14) tell of contacts between the rulers of Egypt and Babylonia…
Mattias KARLSSON. — Relations between Egypt and Mesopotamia were particularly close in the seventh century BCE, when the Neo-Assyrian empire controlled Egypt for about a decade. This period of close relations is partly illuminated by onomastic evidence…
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Mattias KARLSSON. — This paper focuses on how Asia and Asiatics are portrayed in historically oriented Kushite royal inscription, thus taking into account the great impact Asia in general and Assyria specifically had on the Kushite state…
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Fabrice DE BACKER. — This paper proposes a hypothetic reconstruction of the funeral rituals employed to bury the King during the Neo-Assyrian period…
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Mattias KARLSSON. — This paper focuses on how Egypt and Kush are portrayed in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions. The philological analysis showed that Egypt and Kush are described partly as targets of coercion, in their being subjects and enemies…
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Marcel MEULDER. — The name of Bias, Melampus’ brother, is originally Luwian. It means ‘ the man to whom a wife is given’. He woos Pero, the daughter of the Pylian king Neleus, as a reward of Melampus’achievement…
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D. A. MILLER. — This paper looks at human attempts to understand and then to “order” the natural world, with special attention to “the road through the wood.”…
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M.-G. MASETTI-ROUAULT, S. SALMON. — During their expansion toward West, the kings of early Neo-Assyrian period met, in Northern Mesopotamia and in Southern Anatolia, Luwian and Aramean populations, who had then established prosperous States along the main caravan roads developing trade and commercial exchanges all over the Middle East…
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C. MORA. — In the14th and 13th centuries BC, after Šuppiluliuma I conquered the North Syrian region, the Hittite state ruled over the small kingdoms of North-Syria ; diplomatic and commercial relations, as well as cultural exchanges, became frequent, with effects on the social organization, on the legal institutions, on the scribal and artistic traditions and on the local Syrian customs…
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M. ZORMAN. — In 13th century BCE Hittite texts some words are marked with special signs called 'gloss-wedges'. It is generally assumed that they were used to mark words of foreign, mostly Luwian origin…
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J. KLINGER. — Based on the idea that the concept of "ethnic identity" is a social construct and not a given, we will question whether its is relevant to talk about "Hittite identity"…
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F. SERVAJEAN. — An investigation into the location of the Outénet region, which documentation places at the edge of the world, where the sun rises, not far from an "Eastern Ocean" (w3d-wr j3bty). This region adjoins another southern region: the land of Pount…
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D. VANHULLE. — The Nile, as a navigable waterway, has long dominated discussions about Egypt’s internal trade and communication networks, on the one hand, and those linking it to the Mediterranean and southern countries, on the other…
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C. FLAMENT, « "Oikonomia attikè". Un monde agricole tourné vers les échanges », Res Antiquae 10, Brussels, 2013.
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D. MICHAUX-COLOMBOT, « La ruralité méconnue des Medjay immigrés en Égypte au Nouvel Empire », Res Antiquae 10, Bruxelles, 2013.
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Mattias KARLSSON. — This article investigates the image of the Neo-Assyrian empire as multicultural by collecting, classifying, and analysing data derived from the prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian empire which focus on gentilics…
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A. TUGENDHAFT. — This essay explores the dynamic relationship between political events and poltical ideology through a study of Assyria’s place within the family of great powers at the end of the Bronze Age…
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W. LECLERCQ. — Talrijke depots van bronzen voorwerpen, zoals die van de ‘Trou des Nutons’ in Presles (B., Henegouwen), bewijzen dat er in de Bronstijd contacten en uitwisselingen waren (dichtbij maar ook verder weg)…
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M.-Th. RAEPSAET-CHARLIER, G. RAEPSAET. — De romanisering van Gallià« was een langdurig en moeizaam proces, dat nochtans ondersteund werd door een grondig uitgewerkte institutionele structuur en de aanwezigheid van troepen aan de grenzen, alsook door de integratie van de bevolking in de Romeinse beschaving die doorheen het hele Romeinse rijk handelsverkeer genereert…
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J. DEN HEIJER et P. LA SPISA. — This paper addresses the important phenomenon of contacts and influences between the various religious communities of the pre-modern Near East in the field of the written heritage, and more particularly in that of Christian Arabic literature…
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S. SALMON. — The excavations on the site of Tell Masaïkh (Syria) brought to light a ceramic material, dated the Iron Age II. His study allowed the identification of typologies belonging to the Neo-Assyrian tradition and others which are certainly local…
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This article focuses on the transfer of knowledge and wisdom between Mesopotamia and Elam…
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During the New Egyptian Kingdom, numerous foreigners stayed in Egypt. If some of them came with a lot of diplomatic embassies, the others were captured during military campaigns. Children of foreign kings stayed in the kap’s school of the palace, and princesses are given in marriage to Egyptian king. Among these foreigners, Hurrians and their famous maryannou exercised a very important domination.
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The present paper aims at analyzing the description of an Umbrian ritual (TI VI b 52 to VII a 2). During this ritual, the foreigners are expelled from among the citizens of Iguvium. I examine how aggressive urges are unleashed, and on the same time controlled, in the frame of the religious performance.
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J. VANSCHOONWINKEL. — The representations of monkeys are numerous in the Minoan and Theran art although the monkey is not an animal native of the Aegean…
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C. MICHEL. — At the beginning of the IInd millennium BC, inhabitants from the Aššur city-state, on the Tigris river, organized large scale commercial exchange with Anatolia…
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The author studies the famous presentation of sailors and traders represented in the tomb of Kenamon (TT 162), puting it in perspective with divers hieratic texts which allow to understand ceremonies in touch with the window of appearance and the role of the foreigners for Egyptian economy.
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S. SALMON. —The main concepts building the identity of the Assyrian State since the Bronze Age developed around the theology of the Assyrian national god, Ashur, leader of the local pantheon and “true” king of Assyria…
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É. RAIMOND. — Texts of IId millenium B.C. underline the importance of mountains in Luwian minds. A few mounts are connected to Luwians, as Arinnanda, where Mursili fought Arzawian refugees…
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A. PORTNOFF. — The story of Tages is one of the most authentic Etruscan legends. Nevertheless, his name cannot be easily explained by Etruscan…
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N. VISMARA. —L’auteur compare 24 typologies monétaire de Kuprlli avec les émissions des autres « seigneur » et villes de la région de la Lycie…
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O. CASABONNE, J. DEVOS. — Examination of the Aegyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Biblical and Achaemenid texts, indicates that the “Ionians” (Yaw/mnayi, Yawan, Yauna) were not only Greek and Cypriot populations, but also Anatolian populations…
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A. DESTROOPER. — Some Cypriot coins have been found in hoards and isolated in Southern Asia minor…
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