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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East - complete volume

doi: 10.1553/978OEAW85741

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Preliminaries

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Table of Content

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List of Abbreviations

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Programme

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Preface

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Greetings

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The Beginnings and Progress of the Melammu Project

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Ancient History and the Ancient Near East: Comments of an Ancient Historian

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Assyriological Approaches Towards a History of Religion of Mesopotamia

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L’architecture sacrée, clef des origines de l’élite Hyksôs

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Methodology and Methods of Borrowing in Comparative Greek and Near Eastern Religion: The Case of Incense-Burning

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On a Possible Assyrian Source of the Achaemenid Demand for “Earth and Water”

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A Glance into Walter Andrae’s Designing of the Vorderasiatische Museum, Today’s Museum of the Ancient Near East in the Pergamonmuseum Berlin

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Crossing the Barriers of Cultural Prejudgment about “West & East”: A Dialogic Exercise on Sumerian and Roman Abstract Thought and Semiotics Based on the Rural Cosmos

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Esteem and Irony – The Primeval History’s Use of Ancient Near Eastern Motifs

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The Intellectual Heritage of Babylonian Astronomy: Music of the Spheres

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The Siege of Cities: Transfer of Poliorcetics from Mesopotamia to Greece?

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Hymns in Stone? Palmyrene Dedications to “Blessed-(be)-his-Name-Forever” and their Ancient Origins

309

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Human-Animal Studies in History

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An Ideal City in the Ancient World: Knowledge from Mesopotamia and the Ways of its Transcultural Dissemination

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It’s an Ill Wind! Air, Health and Sickness in Assyro-Babylonian Medicine and Beyond

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The Intellectual Heritage from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Achaemenids in the Western Reception History of the Book of Deuteronomy in the 16th and 17th Century

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From SA.GIG to Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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Memories of Persian Kingship in the Hellenistic World

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Gilgamesh on the Couch: The Mesopotamian Hero and Psychoanalysis

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Culture Transfer in Light of Seth, Baˁal and Their Relationship

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Of Dogs and Medicine in Mesopotamia and Beyond

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The Revelatory Journey Motif in the Iliad and the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Babylonian Seers as Medical Practitioners

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Enūma eliš and the Priestly Narrative: Shared Scribal Practices

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Prosopography of Old Babylonian Documents from Larsa: On Seal Inscriptions, the King’s Name and the So-Called “Double Filiation”

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What do Deities Tell us about the Celestial Positioning System?

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Meat, Mesopotamia, and Modernity: A New Approach to the Study of Meat in Mesopotamia

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Humour in Sumerian Didactic Literature

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Egyptian-Fashioned Use of Logograms in the Canaanite Amarna Letters: A Case of “The Jerusalem Scribe”

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The Professional Practice of the Scribes of Nuzi: A Prosopographical Investigation

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The Collective and Individual Legitimacy of Royal Power

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Complementary Grammars for the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (AANE): Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, Historical Geography and the Modern Geographies of the Past

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Over the Mountains: The Movement of Goods and People between Mesopotamia and Elam in the 21st Century BCE

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Working Hypothesis for the First Writing and Written Transmission of Hittite Rituals

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Evidence to Place the City of Purušhanda at Acemhöyük

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The Role of Emissaries (ṣīrāni) in the Assyrian Administrative Machinery: What should an Emissary Learn about Assyria?

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The Assyrians as Seen by the Phoenicians

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Herrschaft durch Emotion ‒ Fallbeispiele aus dem hethitischen Schrifttum

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Factors Influencing the Neo-Assyrian Provincial System of Anatolia

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The Rise and Fall of the Hymn in Hittite Literature

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The SAHI Tell Jokha Archaeological Project: Campaign 2016–2017

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The Northern Lebanon Project and the Tripoli/Koura Area During the Second and First Millennia BCE: A Preliminary Assessment of the Settlements and Historical Evidence

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The Materiality of the Foundation of the Ur III Ekur at Nippur

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Index

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