Res Antiquae XVIII (2021) Table of contents | Buy 55,00 € Problemi di epistemologia etrusca Massimiliano CANUTI. — This paper tries to analyse the question of Etruscan interpretability by a epistemological and theoretical point of view… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Recent archaeological discoveries in the land of Bia/Urartu Roberto DAN. — The purpose of this article is to present and discuss a series of recent archaeological discoveries made in the territory that was controlled by the state of Bia/Urartu between the second half of the 9th and the second half of the 7th century BC… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / L’atelier d’un batteur d’armures à Tell Ahmar Fabrice DE BACKER. — The artefacts discovered in excavations, with the textual and visual evidence, provide the support for a series of deductions on the manufacture of a scale-armour… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / « Shamshi-Ilu Went to Camp along with Captain Bassing ...». La formation militaire des recrues néo-assyriennes Fabrice DE BACKER. — This paper deals with the recruitment and training of the Neo-Assyrian troops between the 8th and the 7th century B.C. for a short military campaign. The basics of the military planning for the operations and of the warfare intruction provided to the troops at their « Boot Camp » will be reviewed according to the sources available at hand… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Un « nouvel » idiome sémitique ? Les inscriptions ibères revisitées Arnaud DELANOY. — This article proposes a Semitic-based interpretation for Iberian texts, that remain still obscure to this day. Some older results obtained by the combinatorial method are also reused… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Ressemblances et dissemblances dans les conflits entre les dieux et déesses des mythologies égyptienne et grecque Mayoro DIA, Benjamin DIOUF. — The stories of Egyptian and Greek mythologies are very enticing and very instructive… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Le culte d’Hercule de Vicus Stramentarius à l’église de Sainte-Marie à Vico de Saint-Omero. Le contexte géographique Stefania DI CARLO. — Outside the edifice, dating back to the year 1000, one can see traces of the ancient city of Palma and its “ager”… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Representations of Asia(tics) in Kushite Royal Inscriptions 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… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Archaeological fakes and forgeries in Turkey Ergün LAFLI, Maurizio BUORA. — In this paper we present discussions on archaeological authenticity in Turkey, advanced both from scholarly as well as popular scientific point of views… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Aristote et le divin Gérard LAMBIN. — What is a god, what is the divine for Aristotle? But above all, is it allowed to speak of an Aristotelian theology and a first divine Motor?… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Asbotos. Proposition d’étymologie d’un toponyme thessalien Marcel MEULDER. — The Hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalkis evokes the horses from Asbotos, which allow the soothsayer Amphiaraos to withdraw the disaster of the Seven Chiefs in front of Thebes… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Phrygians in Disguise: Onomastic Evidence for Phrygian-Anatolian Ethnocultural Contact in Hieroglyphic-Luwian inscription PORSUK and elsewhere Rostislav ORESHKO. — The present paper explores the evidence of the Hieroglyphic-Luwian inscription PORSUK from ethnolinguistic, epigraphic and historical perspectives… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / “L´État, c’est moi!” The Hittite king as embodiment of the State Marta PALLAVIDINI. — In the field of Hittitology, the interconnection between the figure of the king and the institution that he represents has not been studied adequately… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / La déesse Déméter Eric RAIMOND. — The Goddess Demeter has become an allegory of Nature, whom its complex nature and functions are not sought… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / The new transliteration of Sidetic and the etymology of some Sidetic names Zsolt SIMON. — The present paper critically discusses the new transcription system of Sidetic proposed by S. Pérez Orozco… Abstract | Volume | Other papers / Antica iscrizione di Castegnero (Vicenza) in scrittura simile alla ligure con invocazione a divinità del fuoco e del calore Adolfo ZAVARONI. — The inscription of Castegnero (Vicenza province, territory of ancient Veneto) was written with letters and ligatures similar to those of the Ligurian script… Abstract | Volume | Other papers /