Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Program xvii
6. Part 1 Opening Lectures
7. Rückwärts schauend in die Zukunft: Utopien des Alten Orients 3
8. Law and Literature in the Third Millennium b.c. 13
9. The Soul in the Stele? 49
10. Part 2 Papers
11. Myth and Ritual through Tradition and Innovation 59
12. A Tale of Twin Cities: Archaeology and the Sumerian King List 75
13. Where are the Uruk Necropoles? Regional Innovation or Change in Tradition for Northern Mesopotamia 81
14. Changes Through Time: The Pit F Sequence at Ur Revisited 91
15. Reading Figurines from Ancient Urkeš (2450 b.c.e.) A New Way of Measuring Archaeological Artifacts, with Implications for Historical Linguistics 105
16. Wooden Carvings of Ebla: Some Open Questions 121
17. The Aesthetic Lexicon of Ebla’s Composite Art during the Age of the Archives 135
18. DUGURASU = rw-ḥꝪwt 155
19. More on Pre-Sargonic Umma 161
20. Professional Figures and Administrative Roles in the Garden (^ĝeškiri₆) Management of Ur III Ĝirsu 167
21. Tradition and Innovation in Šulgi’s Concept of Divine Kingship 179
22. Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Beschwörungen des Marduk-Ea-Typs: Die Rolle Enlils 193
23. Prophecy in the Mari Texts as an Innovative Development 205
24. Mathematical Lists: From Archiving to Innovation 215
25. Die lexikalische Serie á=idu 225
26. The Rituals of Power: The Akkadian Tradition in Neo-Assyrian Policy 237
27. Innovation and Tradition within the Sphere of Neo-Assyrian Officialdom 251
28. Tradition and Innovation in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs 267
29. Une Armure Expérimentale du Premier Millénaire av. J.-C. 277
30. A Group of Seals and Seal Impressions from the Neo-Assyrian Colony Tell Masaikh- Kar-Assurnasirpal with More Ancient Motifs 289
31. Spätbabylonische Urkunden: Original, Kopie, Abschrift 301
32. Traditional Claims of an Illustrious Ancestor in Craftsmanship and in Wisdom 311
33. New Phraseology and Literary Style in the Babylonian Version of the Achaemenid Inscriptions 321
34. Aspects of Royal Authority and Local Competence: A Perspective from Nuzi 335
35. Continuity and Discontinuity in a Nuzi Scribal Family 345
36. Mission at Arrapḫa 355
37. Geopolitical Patterns and Connectivity in the Upper Khabur Valley in the Middle Bronze Age 369
38. Writing Sumerian in the West 381
39. Territorial Administration in Alalaḫ during Level IV 393
40. Reciprocity and Commerce in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia 409
41. Hittite Clitic Doubling as an Innovative Category: Its Origin 417
42. Memory and Tradition of the Hittite Empire in the post-Hittite Period 427
43. Fortifications and Arming as Analytical Elements for a Social-Policy Evolution in Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age 439
44. Amurru in der königlichen Ideologie und Tradition: von Ebla bis Israel 449
45. The Assyrian Tree of Life and the Jewish Menorah 459
46. The Ponderal Systems of Qatna 471
47. French Excavations in Qasr Shemamok-Kilizu (Iraqi Kurdistan): The First Mission (2011) 481
48. The Present in Our Past: The Assyrian Rock Reliefs at Nahr El-Kalb and the Lessons of Tradition 491
49. Oriental Studies and Fascism in Spain 501
50. Part 2 Workshop: From Parents to Children
51. From Parents to Children: Ebla 511
52. Family Firms in the Ur III Period 517
53. A Chip Off the Old Block: The Transmission of Titles and Offices within the Family in Old Babylonian Sippar 525
54. The Tradition of Professions within Families at Nuzi 555
55. Crafts and Craftsmen at Ugarit 567
56. Hereditary Transmission of Specialized Knowledge in Hittite Anatolia: The Case of the Scribal Families of the Empire Period 577
57. The Transmission of Offices, Professions, and Crafts within the Family in the Neo-Assyrian Period 587
58. Families, Officialdom, and Families of Royal Officials in Chaldean and Achaemenid Babylonia 597