Time and history in the ancient Near East
Subtitle: proceedings of the 56th Rencontre assyriologique internationale at Barcelona 26-30 July 2010
By: edited by L. Feliu, J. Llop, A. Millet Alba, and J. Sanmartin
Contributors: Feliu, Lluís, 1965- editor
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 838
ISBN-13: 9781575062556; 9781575068565
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Beginning; Kosmologie; Cosmology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Conference proceedings in English, French, and German.
Table of contents: title: Opening lectures. Time before time: primeval narrative in Early Mesopotamian literature; title: The extent of literacy in Syria and Palestine during the Second Millennium B.C.E.; title: Time and history in the ancient Near East. Tim "pulled up" in Ashurnasirpal's reliefs; title: Akkadian and Aramaic terms for a 'favorable time'; title: Masters of time: Old Babylonian kings and calendars; title: Notes on the Neo-Assyrian siege-shield and chariot; title: Changing space, time and meaning: the seal of Yaqaru of aqaru from Ugarit; title: a reconversion?; title: Time in Neo-Assyrian letters; title: The historical preamble of the Talmi-Šarruma treaty (CTH 75) and some chronoligcal problems of the History of Halap; title: Magie et historie: les rituels en temps de guerre; title: Time and again: Marduk's travels; title: Time in death and afterlife: the concept of time and the belief in afterlife; title: Concepts and perception of time in Mesopotamian divination; title: Temps, mémoire et évolution des cultures aux époques archaïques: écriture de passé et listes lexicales; title: Time in ancient Israel: Hebrew ʻôlām, past and future; title: "Lange Jahre" und Lebenszeit bei den Hethitern; title: The Heuristic value of E. de Martino's Concept of Metahistory and related topics in research into Meopotamian cultural history; title: "I read the inscriptions from before the Flood ..." Neo-Sumerian influences in Ashurbanipal'sroyal self-image; title: Mesopotamian idea of time through modern eyes (disruption and continuity); title: Temporalité et spatialité dans les rites de passage de l'Anatolie hittite; title: Reconsidering the categories of time in ancient Iraq; title: "Internal" and "external" evidence for a reconstruction of Nuzi chronology; title: The other face of the moon: some hints on the visual representation of the moon on Third-Millenniaum B.C.E. Mesopotamian Glyptic; title: The Tuleilat al-Ghassul star painting: a hypothesis regarding a solar calendar from the Fourth Millennium B.C.; title: The Monster's gaze: vision as mediator between time and space in the art of Mesopotamia; title: A time to rejoice: the Egalkura rituals and the Mirth of Iyyar; title: Der Kalendar von Adab im 3. Jahrtausend; title: Divine or human creation of time? The issue of time as a factor determinging the relationship of man to God; title: Workshops. Architecture and archaeology. Modern architecture and archaeology: the case of the hypothetical reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian palace at Tell Massaikh (Syria), 2007-2009; title: Idea and image: how what we know determines what we want to know; title: Architecture and ancient Near East in dreawings, buildings, and virtual reality: issues in imagining and designing ancient and modern space; title: Invented space: discovering Near Eastern architecture through imaginary representations and constructions; title: Fragments d'arts Mesopotamiens: aux orgines des empires; title: Reception of ancient Near Eastern architecture in Europe and North America in the 20th century Ancient wall paintingsw and modern reconstructions; title: Early Akkadian and its Semitic context. Form und Datierung früher semitischer Lehwörter im Sumerischen; title: Stativatät und Perfektivität in den Ost- und Westsemitischen Sprachen; title: Hurrian Languge. A Hurro-Akkadian Expression for changing one's tesimony attested in Nuzi trial records; title: Hurrian personal names in the kingdom of Ḫatti; title: Gedanken zu den Textstellen I:90 und III:30 in dem Mittanni-brief; title: Law in the ancient Near East. Historical context and Social theories: it's influence on the study of Mesopotamian juridical phenomena; title: The improtance of time in Old Babylonian juridiacal texts; title: Middle Assyrian texts and studies. Sag mir quando, sa mir wann; title: Contractual formalism an Zukunftsbewältigung in mddle Assyrian agricultural accouting; title: The Eponym Bēr-nādin-apli and the documents referring to the expeditions to the City of Tille in the reign of Tukultī-Ninura I (1233-1197 B.C.E.); title: Die Tägliche Speisung des Assur (gināʼu) und deren politische Bedeutung; title: Imperial culture: some reflections on middle Assyrian settlement; title: Varia. Tugdamme and the Cimmerians: a test of piety in Assyrian royal inscriptions; title: The changing approaches to history in the Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs; title: Genres meet: Assurbanipal's prayer in the Inscription L⁴ and the bilingual communal lamentations; title: L'incorruptible et l'éphémère: le miel et la glace, composants sacrés des boissons royales; title: Three kings of the Orient in archaic Ur; title: Ilum-išar et Apil-kīn: deux nouvelles incriptions de Mari; title: A few thoughts about late Chalcolithic architecture and the Uruk Expansion in the middle Euphrates area; title: Further considerations on the Ankara silver bowl; title: The evolution of the side court house in the late MB central and southewestern Anatolia; title: The role of the Saĝĝa in Ur III based on the Puzriš-Dagān texts; title: Life extension: secondary burial and the making and unmaking of self in EB IA; title: The offering for the ritual of King Seleucus III and his offspring; title: Some new light on Pre-Sargonic Umma; title: Settlemnet patterns and interactions in the West Bank Highlands in the Iron Age I period: a new approach; title: Conputational and spatial approaches to the commericial landscapes and political geography of the old Assyrian colony period; title: Eunuchs in Hatti and Assria: a reassessmetn; title: Eridu texts; title: Les particularités d'emploi des signes cunéiformes à différents pérides de la langue hittite; title: Recent researches in the Erbil Region: 2010 excavations in Kilik Mishik (Iraqi Kurdistan); title: Wer war Großkönig I (a)+ra/i-Tonitrus der Karahöyük-Inschrift?; title: Identification of an unfinished statue found in a quarry at Karakiz, Yozgat, Turkey.