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Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005

edited by Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers, and Martha T. Roth

(Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62, OIP 2008)

Table of Contents

Lexicography, Philology, and Textual Studies:
Archivage et classification: Un récapitulatif de créances à Mari sous Zimri-Lim, Dominique Charpin; Identifying Sumerian Compound Nouns, Graham Cunningham; Babylon as a Name for other Cities Including Nineveh, Stephanie Dalley; Reflections on the Past and the Future of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie (RlA), Gabriella Frantz-Szabó ; Reconsidering SHU.IL2.LA(2) as a Classifier of the ashipu in Light of the Iconography of Reciprocal Hand-Lifting Gestures, Christopher Frechette, S.J.; The Akkadian Word for “Third Gender”: The kalu (gala) Once Again, Uri Gabbay; On the Alphabetic Scribal Curriculum at Ugarit, Robert Hawley; Corpus-Driven Models of Lexicography and Mesopotamian Cultural Heritage Preservation at the CDLI, J. Cale Johnson; Storage and Organization of Hittite Grammatical Knowledge, Carol F. Justus; Sumerian Enclitic -àm and Akkadian Enclitic -ma: From Copula to Focus Marker, Fumi Karahashi; The Classification of Incantations, W. G. Lambert; Texts and Labels: A Case Study from Neo-Sumerian Umma, R. Laurito, A. Mezzasalma, and L. Verderame; The CAD and Biblical Hebrew Lexicography: The Roleof Akkadian Cognates, Baruch A. Levine; The Scribes of Nuzi: The Date Formulae and Their Use in the Nuzi Corpus, Paola Negri Scafa; Classifying Assurbanipal’s Inscriptions: Prisms C, Kh (=CNd), and G, Jamie Novotny; Les listes et les tables métrologiques, entre mathématiques et lexicographie, Christine Proust; Classification de l’utilisation du cunéiforme Mésopotamien dans les textes Ougaritiques, Carole Roche; On some Terms for Leatherworking in Ancient Mesopotamia, JoAnn Scurlock; Computer Algorithm to Detect Similar Administrative Documents from the Ur III Archives, Marek Stepien and Jerzy Tyszkiewicz; KADP 36: Inventory, Plant List, or Lexical Exercise, Jan Tavernier; Lexicographical Study of the Already-Ancient in Antiquity, Jon Taylor; A Classified Past: Classification of Knowledge in the Hittite Empire, Theo van den Hout; The Measure of Man: The Lexical Series UGU-mu, Joan Goodnick Westenholz and Marcel Sigrist.

Iconography and Art History:
King of Sumer and Akkad, King of Ur: Figural Types, Astral Symbols, and Royal Titles in the Neo-Sumerian Period, Mehmet-Ali Atac; The Knowledge of Tradition: A Textual and Iconographic Interpretation, Anna Maria Gloria Capomacchia and Marta Rivaroli; Reconstructing Lexicography in Glyptic Art: Structural Relations between the Akkadian Age and the Ur III Period, Alessandro Di Ludovico and Marco Ramazzotti; Knowing the Foreign: Power, Exotica, and Frescoes in the Middle Bronze Age Levant, Marian H. Feldman; Austin’s Asiatic Antiquities: The First Cuneiform Inscriptions Published in America, Steven W. Holloway; Bovine Stone Vessels of the Late Uruk Period, Trudy S. Kawami; The Akkadian “Bello Stile”, Davide Nadali and Lorenzo Verderame; The Classification of Methods of Pictorial Narrative in Assurbanipal’s Reliefs, Chikako. E. Watanabe; Sennacherib’s Expert Knowledge: Skill and Mastery as Components of Royal Display, Irene J. Winter;

Stratigraphy and Archaeology:
The Occupation Levels of Tell Tweini and Their Historical Implications, H. Hameeuw, M. Al-Maqdissi, M. Badawy, J. Bretschneider, G. Jans, K. Vansteenhuyse, G. Voet, and K. Van Lerberghe; Pottery from the Archaic Ishtar Temples in Assur, Claudia Beuger; Mesopotamian Altar Deposits, Judy Bjorkman; Classification of Knowledge, An Archaeological Approach: The Case of Nuzi, Simona Bracci; The Oriental Institute and Its Role in Mesopotamian Archaeology, McGuire Gibson; Bronze Reliefs from Khorsabad, Eleanor Guralnick; “Layer By Layer…” Of Digging and Drawing: The Genealogy of an Idea, Maria Gabriella Micale and Davide Nadali; Classifying Women: The “Harem” and What It Does and Doesn’t Tell Us about Women, Elna K. Solvang; Persepolis-Pasargadae Field Investigations, Mohammad Hassan Talebian.

Afterword:
De brevitate tupsharruti: Carmen amoebaeum vel zamar mihri, Walter Farber.

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