# Mario Liverani

Mario Liverani (born 10 January 1939 in Rome), is an Italian historian and Professor of Ancient Near East History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of many institutions, such as the American Oriental Society, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Copenhagen and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

## Awards and honors

* 2014 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the "Arabic Culture in Other Languages" category for his book "Imagining Babylon"

## Selected works

* International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC. Studies in Diplomacy. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
* Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Written in co-operation with Zainab Bahrani. Studies in Egyptology and the Ancient Near East. London: Equinox, 2004.
* Israel's History And the History of Israel. Translated by Chiara Peri and Philip R. Davies. Bible World. London: Equinox, 2005. (original italian edition Oltre la Bibbia: Storia Antica di Israele. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2003).
* Antico Oriente: Storia, Società, Economia. Biblioteca Storica Laterza. Rome: Laterza, 2011.
* Liverani, Mario (2006). Uruk: The First City. Translated by Bahrani, Zainab; Van De Mieroop, Marc. London: Equinox. ISBN 978-1-84553-191-1. (original italian edition Uruk: La Prima Città. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1998).
* Liverani, Mario (2014). The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415679060.
* Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) Book 11), ISBN 978-1614516026 (original italian edition Immaginare Babele: Due secoli di studi sulla città orientale antica. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2013)

## Selected publications and contributions

* "Karkemiš nei testi di Ugarit". Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 35: 135–146. 1960.
* "Bar-Guš e Bar-Rakib". Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 36: 185–187. 1961.
* "Antecedenti dell'onomastica aramaica antica". Rivista degli studi orientali. 32 (1/2): 65–76. 1962.
* ""Antecedenti del diptotismo arabo nei testi accadici di Ugarit". Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 38: 131–160. 1963.
* "Memorandum on the Approach to Historiographic Texts". Orientalia. Nova Series. 42: 178–194. 1973.
* "A Seasonal Pattern for the Amarna Letters". Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran. Leiden: Brill. 1990. pp. 337–348.
* "Recenti ricerche sull'agricoltura sumerica". Studi Storici. 32 (1): 221–226. 1991.
* "The Medes at Esarhaddon's Court". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 47: 57–62. 1995. doi:10.2307/1359815. JSTOR 1359815. S2CID 163290816.
* "L'immagine dei fenici nella storiografia occidentale". Studi Storici. 39 (1): 5–22. 1998.
* "Nuovi sviluppi nello studio della storia dell'Israele biblico". Biblica. 80 (4): 488–505. 1999.
* "I garamanti: Ricerche in corso e nuove prospettive". Studi Storici. 42 (3): 769–783. 2001.
* "Guerra santa e guerra giusta nel Vicino Oriente antico (Circa 1600-600 a.C.)". Studi Storici. 43 (3): 639–659. 2002.
* "Historical Overview". A Companion to the Ancient Near East. Wiley-Blackwell. 2005. pp. 1–19.
* "The King in the Palace". Orientalia. 78 (1): 81–91. 2009.
* ""UNTRUTHFUL STELES": PROPAGANDA AND RELIABILITY IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA". Opening the Tablet Box. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster. Leiden: Brill. 2010. pp. 229–244.
* "The Book Of Kings And Ancient Near Eastern Historiography". The Books of Kings. Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception. Leiden: Brill. 2010. pp. 161–184.
* "Late Mesopotamia". The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. pp. 29–52.
* ""I CONSTRUCTED PALACES THROUGHOUT MY COUNTRY" ESTABLISHING THE ASSYRIAN PROVINCIAL ORDER: THE MOTIF AND ITS VARIANTS". Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale. 106: 181–191. 2012.
* "Literary-Political Motifs in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions". Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature: Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist. Eisenbrauns. 2013. pp. 269–284.