Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we hope that you have spent a nice and relaxing summer time! While we start a new academic year, we are back with a new list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology.
Please note that this list only includes titles that have been notified by Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list between July, 1st and September, 30th 2021. As always, please do notify to stefania.ermidoro@iaassyriology.com any recent title that has been overlooked or that did not appear in Agade and should be added to this list.
Thanks!
Altmann, P., Angelini, A., and Spiciarich, A. (eds), Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions. Reassessing Archaeological and Literary Perspectives, Archaeology and Bible 2, Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
Ast, R., Choat, M., Cromwell, J., Lougovaya, J., and Yuen-Collingridge, R. (eds), Observing the Scribe at Work: Scribal Practice in the Ancient World, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 301, Peeters, 2021.
Bauks, M., and Olyan, S.M. (eds), Pain in Biblical Texts and Other Materials of the Ancient Mediterranean, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2/130, Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Berlejung, A., Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations. Studies on the History of Religion and Anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 42, Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Brioschi, S.A., and De Pietri, M. (eds), Visioni d’Oriente. Stereotipi, impressioni, rappresentazioni dall’antichità ad oggi, Pavia University Press, 2021.
Buttitta, I.E., and La Barbera, A. (eds), Uomo e cosmo nella storia. Paradigmi, miti, simboli, Acta Diurna 14, Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta, 2021.
del Cerro Linares, C., Domínguez Monedero, A.J., Villalba Ruiz de Toledo, F.J., and Borrego Gallardo F.L. (eds), Nomina in aqua scripta: Homenaje a Joaquín María Córdoba Zoilo, UAM, 2021.
Chen, F., Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, Cuneiform Monographs 51, Brill, 2020.
Ciafardoni, P., Passaggio in Oriente. Viaggiatrici, scrittrici, archeologhe e scienziate tra ‘800 e ‘900, Scienze e Lettere, 2021.
Dalley, S., The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Del Fabbro, R., Fales, F.M., and Galter, H.D. (eds), Headscarf and Veiling. Glimpses from Sumer to Islam, Antichistica 30/Studi orientali 12, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2021.
Dittmann, R., Gaspa, S., and Kämmerer, T. (eds), Memorial volume for Meindert Dijkstra, Studia Mesopotamica 5, Ugarit-Verlag, 2021.
Droß-Krüpe, K., and Fink, S. (eds), Powerful Women in the Ancient World. Perception and (Self)Presentation. Proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January – 1 February 2019, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 4, Zaphon, 2021.
van Ess, M. (ed), Uruk – Altorientalische Metropole und Kulturzentrum. Beiträge zum 8. Internationalen Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 25. und 26. April 2013, Berlin, Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 8, Harrassowitz, 2021.
Gadotti, A., and Kleinerman, A., Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia, Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 42, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
George, A.R., and Taniguchi, J. (eds), Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Günther, S., Horowitz, W., and Widell, M. (eds.), Of Rabid Dogs, Hunchbacked Oxen, and Infertile Goats in Ancient Babylonia: Studies Presented to Wu Yuhong on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Civilizations 7, Changchun: The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, 2021.
Heinsch, S., Rollinger R., and Kuntner, W. (eds), Befund und Historisierung. Dokumentation und ihre Interpretationsspielräume, Araxes 1, Brepols, 2021.
Hezser, C., and Edelman, D.V. (eds), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity, Equinox Publishing, 2021.
Hutter, M., Religionsgeschichte Anatoliens. Vom Ende des dritten bis zum Beginn des ersten Jahrstausends, Kohlhammer Verlag, 2021.
Ismail, F., Die Personennamen der altbabylonischen Texte aus Šubat-Enlil „Tall Leilān“, PeWe-Verlag, 2021.
Jackson, H., Jamieson, A., Robinson, A., and Russell, S. (eds), Heritage in Conflict. Proceedings of Two Meetings: ‘Heritage in Conflict: A Review of the Situation in Syria and Iraq’, Workshop held at the 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg, Germany, 24-25 July 2017, and ‘Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict’, Symposium held at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 August 2017, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement 57, Peeters, 2021.
Jacobs, B., and Rollinger, R. (eds), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Konstantopoulos, G., and Zaia, S. (eds), As Above, So Below: Religion and Geography, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Kulakoğlu, F., Kryszat, G., and Michel, C. (eds), Cultural Exchange and Current Research in Kültepe and its Surroundings (Kültepe, 1-4 August 2019), Subartu 46, Brepols, 2021.
Laneri, N. (ed), The Sacred Body: Materializing the Divine through Human Remains in Antiquity, Materiality and Religion in Antiquity 1, Oxbow Books 2021.
Langin-Hooper, S.M., Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia. Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Lebeau, M. (ed), Identity, Diversity & Contact from the Southern Balkans to Xinjiang, from the Upper Palaeolithic to Alexander, International Congress the East 1, Brepols, 2021.
Lichtenberger, A., and Raja, R., Glass, Lamps, and Jerash Bowls. Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project III, Jerash Papers 8, Brepols, 2021.
Lipschits, O., Age of Empires. The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th–2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions, Mosaics: Studies on Ancient Israel 2, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Lipschits, O., Freud, L., Oeming, M., and Gadot, Y., Ramat Raḥel VI. The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010). The Babylonian-Persian Pit, Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology 40, Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Liverani, M., Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel. Edited by Niels P. Lemche and E. Pfoh, Routledge, 2021.
Lynn Budin, S., Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution, Routledge, 2021.
Macdonald, M.C.A., Taymāʾ II: Catalogue of the Inscriptions Discovered in the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʾ 2004–2015, Taymāʾ: Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project 2, Archaeopress, 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, 2020.
Mazar, A., and Panitz-Cohen, N., Tel Reḥov, A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valley, Volume IV, Pottery Studies, Inscriptions and Figurative Art, Qedem 62, The Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2020.
Milstein, S.J., Making a Case. The Practical Roots of Biblical Law, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Neumann, K., and Thomason, A. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East, Routledge, 2021.
Ossendrijver, M. (ed), Scholars, Priests, and Temples: Babylonian and Egyptian Science in Context, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 8, Special Issue, De Gruyter, 2021.
Panaino A.C.D., A Walk through the Iranian Heavens. Spherical and Non-Spherical Cosmographic Models in the Imagination of Ancient Iran and Its Neighbors, Ancient Iran Series 9, Brill, 2021.
Rahmstorf, L., Barjamovic, G., and Ialongo, N. (eds), Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective, Weight & Value 2, Wachholtz Verlag, 2021.
Raja, R., Yon, J.-B., and Steding, J., Excavating Palmyra. Harald Ingholt’s Excavation Diaries: A Transcript, Translation, and Commentary, Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 4, Brepols, 2021.
Reich, R., and Shukron, E., Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995-2010), Israel Antiquities Authority Publications, 2021.
Susnow, M., The Practice of Canaanite Cult. The Middle and Late Bronze Ages, Ägypten und Altes Testament 106, Zaphon, 2021.
Thomas, A., and Potts, T., Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, Getty Publications, 2021.
Tuplin, C.J., and Ma, J. (eds), Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context, Volumes I-III, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Valk, J., and Soto Marín, I. (eds), Ancient Taxation. The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective, ISAW Monographs, NYU Press, 2021.