Culled from the Agade mailing list for your convenience, and with Jack M. Sasson’s approval, here is a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Please note that this list includes only titles that have been notified between January, 1st and March, 31st 2021: books that were announced before the beginning of the year already appeared in our previous lists of publications – do have a look at our older posts: we publish a new list every three months!
Please write to us, at stefania.ermidoro@iaassyriology.com, if we have overlooked a publication or if you are aware of any title that was not announced in Agade and should be added to the list. Thanks!
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., Landscapes of Survival – The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond, Sidestone Press, 2020.
Ambos, C., and Zisa, G. (eds), Miti, culti, saperi: per un’antropologia religiosa della Mesopotamia antica, Nanaya. Studi e materiali di antropologia e storia delle religioni 1, Museo Pasqualino, 2021.
Ayse Belgin, H., and Olivier, H., The Carians. From Seafarers to City Builders, Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2020.
Baaklini, A.-A., Présence et influence assyriennes dans le royaume de Hamat, Archaeopress, 2021.
Baines, J., van der Blom, H., Chen, Y.S., and Tim Rood (eds), Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World, Equinox Publishing, 2021.
Barmash, P., The Laws of Hammurabi. At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Bawanypeck, D., Imhausen, A., and Pfeifer, G. (eds), The Normativity of Formal Orders and Procedures in Antiquity: A Comparison of Mathematical and Legal Systems, Kārum – Emporion – Forum 4, Ugarit Verlag, 2021.
Bonatz, D., Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria), Tell Fekheriye Excavation Reports 1, De Gruyter, 2021.
Bussmann, R., and Helms, T. (eds), Poverty and Inequality in Early Civilizations. Proceedings of the International Conference November 17–18, 2017, University of Cologne, Studien zur Wirtschaftsarchäologie 4, Habelt, 2020.
Carney, E.D., and Müller, S. (eds), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Routledge, 2020.
Charpin, D., Béranger, M., Fiette, B., and Jacquet, A., ARCHIBAB 4. Nouvelles recherches sur les archives d’Ur d’époque paléo-babylonienne, Mémoires de NABU 22, Sepoa, 2020.
Cholidis, N., Katzy, E. and Kulemann-Ossen, S. (eds), Zwischen Ausgrabung und Ausstellung. Beiträge zur Archäologie Vorderasiens. Festschrift für Lutz Martin, marru 9, Zaphon, 2020.
Civil, M., Esbós de gramàtica sumèria / An outline of Sumerian grammar, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020.
Davis, A.R., Reconstructing the Temple. The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel, Oxford University Press, 2019.
De Graef, K., and Goddeeris, A. (eds), Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 15–19 July 2013, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Doak, B.R., Ancient Israel’s Neighbors, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Droß-Krüpe, K., Semiramis, de qua innumerabilia narrantur. Rezeption und Verargumentierung der Königin von Babylon von der Antike bis in die opera seria des Barock, Classica et Orientalia 25, Harrassowitz, 2021.
Elayi, J., L’Empire assyrien. Histoire d’une grande civilisation de l’Antiquité, Perrin, 2021.
Emre, K., Yanarlar. A Hittite Cemetery Near Afyon, Turk Tarih Kurumu, 2020.
Ermidoro, S., and Riva, C. (eds), in collaboration with L. Milano, Rethinking Layard 1817-2017. Atti del convegno promosso dall’istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti e Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Venezia, 5-6 marzo 2018), IVSLA, 2020.
Faust, A., The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Faust, A., and Katz, H. (eds), Archaeology of the Land of Israel: From the Neolithic to Alexander the Great, Ra’anna: The Open University, 2019.
Fleming, D.E., Yahweh before Israel. Glimpses of History in a Divine Name, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Frame, G., Jeffers, J., and Pittman, H. (eds), Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE. Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Frayne, D.R., and Stuckey, J.H., with illustrations by S.D. Beaulieu, A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East. Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Gorris, E., Power and Politics in the Neo-Elamite Kingdom, Acta Iranica 60, Peeters, 2020.
Höfele, A., Levin, C., Müller, R., and Quiring. B. (eds), Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity. Formations of the Formless, De Gruyter, 2021.
van den Hout, T., A History of Hittite Literacy. Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650-1200 BC), Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Johnson, D.R., Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe 122, Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
Knauf, E.A., and Niemann, H.M., Geschichte Israels und Judas im Altertum, De Gruyter, 2021.
Krebernik, M., and Ponchia, S. (eds), The Ancient Near East and the Foundations of Europe. Proceedings of the Melammu Workshop held in Jena 19th September 2017, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 3, Zaphon, 2020.
Laneri, N., Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project 2003-2013 Final Report: Chronology and Material Culture, BraDypUS Communicating Cultural Heritage, 2016.
Maeir, A.M., Berlejung, A., Eshel, E., and Oshima, T.M. (eds), New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, Egypt and Idumea. Proceedings of the Joint RIAB Minerva Center and the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History Conference. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times II, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 40, Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Maeir, A.M., and Uziel, J. (eds), Tell es-Safi / Gath II: Excavations and Studies, Ägypten und Altes Testament 105, Zaphon, 2020.
Matthiae, P., I volti del potere. Alle origini del ritratto nell’arte dell’Oriente antico, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2020.
Matuszak, J., ››Und du, du bist eine Frau?!‹‹ Editio princeps und Analyse des sumerischen Streitgesprächs ›Zwei Frauen B‹, Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 16, De Gruyter, 2021.
Ramazzotti, M., Eridu, Enki e l’ordine del mondo, Mondadori Education, 2021.
Regev, D., Painting the Mediterranean Phoenician: On Canaanite-Phoenician Trade-nets, Equinox Publishing, 2021.
Saporetti, C., Turan 10: Formule dalla Diyala nel periodo paleobabilonese – Suppl. 2., Informatica Applicata SAS, 2020.
Schmidt, T., and Pahlitzsch, J. (eds), Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish. Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Thought, De Gruyter, 2019.
Smith, J.A., Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East, Routledge, 2021.
Sövegjártó, S., Sumerische Glossenhandschriften als Quellen des altbabylonischen hermeneutischen Denkens, dubsar 18, Zaphon, 2020.
Streck, M. (ed), Sprachen des Alten Orients. 4., überarbeitete Auflage, wbg Academic, 2021.
Streit, K., The Ancient Near East in Transregional Perspective: Material Culture and Exchange between Mesopotamia, the Levant and Lower Egypt from 5800 to 5200 calBC, Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2020.
Streit, K., and Grohmann. M. (eds), Culture of Defeat. Submission in Written Sources and the Archaeological Record. Proceedings of a Joint Seminar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna, October 2017, Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East 16, Gorgias Press, 2021.
Tigay, J.H., and Berlin, A., Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization 1, Yale University Press, 2020.
Tropper, J., and Vita, J.-P., Lehrbuch der ugaritischen Sprache, Zaphon, 2020.
Vita, J.-P., History of the Akkadian Language, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 152, Brill, 2021.
Wagner-Durand, E., and Linke, J. (eds), Tales of Royalty. Notions of Kingship in Visual and Textual Narration in the Ancient Near East, De Gruyter, 2020.
Yener, K.A., Göltepe Excavations: Tin Production at an Early Bronze Age Mining Town in the Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey, Prehistory Monographs 64, INSTAP Academic Press, 2021.
Yoffee, N. (ed.), The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2019.