Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we hope that you are all safe and well in these difficult and unprecedented times.
As we all adapt to working from home, here is a list of the most recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology, to keep you company.
As always, these titles have been selected from Jack M. Sasson’s invaluable Agade mailing list, specifically from messages received between January, 1st and March, 31st 2020.
Please do write to us, at stefania.ermidoro@iaassyriology.com, if we have overlooked a publication or if you are aware of any recently-advertised title that did not appear in Agade and should be added to the list.
Stay safe, and enjoy these readings!
Adiego, I.-X., García Trabazo, J.V., Vernet, M., Obrador-Cursach, B., and Martínez Rodríguez, E. (eds), Luwic dialects and Anatolian: Inheritance and Diffusion, Barcino. Monographica Orientalia 12, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Akar, M., Horowitz, M.T., Yener, K.A., Tell Atchana, Alalakh Volume 2: The Late Bronze II City (2006-2010 Excavation Seasons), 2 Vols, Zero Books, 2020.
Anthonioz, S., Premiers récits de la creation, Les édition du Cerf, 2020.
Anthonioz, S., Mouton, A., and Petit, D. (eds), When Gods Speak to Men. Divine Speech according to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 289, Peeters, 2019.
Arkhipov, I., Kogan, L., and Koslova, N. (eds), The Third Millennium. Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in Honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik, Cuneiform Monographs 50, Brill, 2019.
Ascalone, E., and Sajjadi, M. (eds), Scavi e Ricerche a Shahr-i Sokhta, Studies and Publications Institute, Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, University of Salento, 2019.
Becker, J., Beuger, C., and Müller-Neuhof, B. (eds), Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory. Proceedings of the Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, Oriental and European Archaeology 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019.
Bietak, M., and Prell, S. (eds), The Enigma of the Hyksos, Volume I. ASOR Conference Boston 2017 – ICAANE Conference Munich 2018 – Collected Papers, Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 9, Harassowitz Verlag, 2019.
Bonadies, L., Chirpanlieva, I., and Guillon, E. (eds), Les Phéniciens, les Puniques et les autres. Echanges et identités en Méditerranée ancienne, Collection Orient et Méditerranée 31, Éditions de Boccard, 2019.
Bonner, M., The Latest Empire of Iran, Gorgias Press, 2020.
Bowen, A.C., and Rochberg, F., Hellenistic Astronomy. The Science in Its Contexts, Brill, 2020.
Chesson, M.S., Thomas Schaub, R., and Rast, W.E. (eds), Numayra. Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Townsite in Jordan, 1977–1983, Eisenbrauns, 2020.
Colas-Rannou, F., Créatures hybrides de Lycie. Images et identité en Anatolie antique (VIe – IVe siècle avant J.-C.), Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2020.
Curtis, J. (ed), Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period, James Clarke & Co., 2020.
Darles, C., Fouilles de Shabwa V. Les fortifications, Presses de l’Ifpo, 2019.
Démare-Lafont, S. (ed), Debt in Ancient Mediterranean Societies. A Documentary Approach, Hautes Études Orientales 56/8, Droz, 2019.
Donnat, S., Hunziker-Rodewald, R. and Weygand, I. (eds), Figurines féminines nues. Proche-Orient, Égypte, Nubie, Méditerranée orientale, Asie centrale. VIIIe millénaire av. J.C. – IVe siècle ap.J.-C. Actes du colloque international, Strasbourg 25-26 juin 2015, Éditions de Boccard, 2020.
Driediger-Murphy, L.G., and Eidinow, E. (eds), Ancient Divination & Experience, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Düring, B.S., The Imperialisation of Assyria. An Archaeological Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Estes, D. (ed), The Tree of Life, Themes in Biblical Narrative 27, Brill, 2020.
Ferg, E., Geography, Religions, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean, Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East 9, Routledge, 2020.
Fisher, G., Rome, Persia, and Arabia. Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad, 1st Edition, Routledge, 2019.
Ford, J.N., and Morgenstern, M., Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena, Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 8, Brill, 2019.
Frese D.A., The City Gate in Ancient Israel and Her Neighbors. The Form, Function, and Symbolism of the Civic Forum in the Southern Levant, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 108, Brill, 2020.
Gansell, A.R., and Shafer, A., Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hernáiz, R., Studies on Linguistic and Orthographic Variation in Old Babylonian Letters, Alter Orient Und Altes Testament 465, Ugarit-Verlag, 2020.
Herr, L.G., Clark, D.R., and Geraty, L.T. (eds.), The 2004 Season at Tall al ‘Umayri and Subsequent Studies, Eisenbrauns, 2020.
Heeßel, N.P., and Schwemer, D. (eds.), 100 Jahre Altorientalistik in Würzburg. 1916-2016, Harrassowitz, 2019.
Huber Vulliet, F., Le personnel cultuel à l’époque néo-sumérienne (ca. 2160-2003 av. J-C.), Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 14, CSIC Press, 2020.
Kim, R.I., Mynářová, J., and Pavúk, P. (eds), Hrozný and Hittite. The First Hundred Years, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 107, Brill, 2020.
Klein, J., and Sefati, Y., From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe. Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period, Eisenbrauns, 2020.
Leichty, E., Finkel, I.L., and Walker, C.B.F., with contributions by T.G. Pinches, A.J. Sachs, D.J. Wiseman, W.G. Lambert, M. Jursa, M.J. Geller, J.C. Fincke and J.J. Taylor, Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, Volumes IV–V, dubsar 10, Zaphon, 2019.
Leitmeir, F., Shehata, D., and Wiener, O. (eds), MUS-IC-ON! Klang der Antike Begleitband zur Ausstellung im Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg 10. Dezember 2019 bis 12. Juli 2020, Würzburg University Press, 2019.
de Martino, S., and Devecchi, E. (eds), Anatolia Between the 13th and the 12th Century BCE, EOTHEN 23, Logisma, 2020.
Meyer, J.-W., Vila, E., Mashkour, M., Casanova, M., and Vallet, R. (eds), The Iranian Plateau During the Bronze Age. Development of Urbanisation, Production and Trade, Archéologie(s) 1, MOM Éditions, 2019.
Middeke-Conlin, R., The Making of a Scribe. Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa, Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 4, Springer, 2020.
Millek, J.M., Exchange, Destruction, and a Transitioning Society. Interregional Exchange in the Southern Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron I, RessourcenKulturen 9, Tübingen University Press, 2020.
Orazi, R., The Archaeological Environmental Park of Sennacherib’s Irrigation Network. Recording, Conservation and Management of the Cultural Heritage of the Northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Italian Archaeological Mission to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Monographs 1, Forum, 2019.
Özer, E. (ed), The Burial Customs in Anatolia during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Bilgin Kultur Sanat, 2019.
Palumbi, G., and Caneva, I., The Chalcolithic at Mersin Yumuktepe. Level XVI Reconsidered, Zero Books, 2019.
Peilstöcker, M., and Wolfram, S. (eds), Leben am Toten Meer. Archäologie aus dem Heiligen Land. Das Buch zur Ausstellung / Life at the Dead Sea. Archaeology in the Holy Land. Exhibition Catalogue, Exhibition Catalogues of the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz 3, Archaeological Heritage Office in Saxony, 2019.
Porten, B., and Yardeni, A., Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4, Eisenbrauns, 2020.
Rivlin Katz, D., Hacham, N., Herman, G., Sagiv, L., A Question of Identity. Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts, De Gruiter Oldenbourg, 2019.
Schipper, B.U., translated by M. Lesley, A Concise History of Ancient Israel. From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era, Eisenbrauns, 2019.
Scurlock, J.A., and Beal, R.H. (eds), What Difference Does Time Make? Papers from the Ancient and Islamic Middle East and China in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Midwest Branch of the American Oriental Society, Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 6, Archaeopress, 2019.
Silverman, J.M., Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire. The King’s Acolytes, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 690, T&T Clark, 2019.
Smogorzewska, A., Tell Arbid. House and Household in a Changing Town, PAM Monograph Series 9, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2019
Sparks, R.T., Finlayson, B., Wagemakers, B., and Briffa, J.M. (eds), Digging Up Jericho. Past, Present and Future, Archaeopress, 2019.
Steinberg, A., Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity, Archaeopress, 2019.
Stevens, K., Between Greece and Babylonia. Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Valentini, S. and Guarducci, G. (eds), Between Syria and The Highlands. Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Studies on the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean 4, Arbor Sapientiae Editore, 2019.
Verderame, L., and Garcia-Ventura, A. (eds), Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond, Lockwood Press, 2020.
Wasserman, N., The Flood: The Akkadian Sources. A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion, Peeters, 2020.
Wisnom, S., Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry: A study of Anzû, Enūma Eliš, and Erra and Išum, Brill, 2019.
Wyssmann, P., Vielfältig geprägt. Das spätperserzeitliche Samaria und seine Münzbilder, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 288, Peeters, 2019.
Zgoll, A., and Zgoll, C. (eds), Mythische Sphärenwechsel. Methodisch neue Zugänge zu antiken Mythen in Orient und Okzident, Mythological Studies 2, De Gruyter, 2020.