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d.Nisaba za3-mi2: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Francesco Pomponio
No full textCollected essays in Honor of Francesco Pomponio by students and colleagues
Scritti in onore di Pietro Mander
No full textUna raccolta di studi di amici, colleghi e allievi per onorare il collocamento fuori ruolo di Pietro Mander (Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
dNisaba za3-mi2: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Francesco Pomponio
No full textThe volume collects twenty-three essays in English, Italian, French, and German offered to the Assyriologist Francesco Pomponio (University of Messina) from pupils, friends, and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In accordance with his scholarly interests, the contributions in the present volume cover a wide range of topics in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies and present the edition of new textual sources from third to first millennium BC Mesopotamia
Sui messenger texts e sui testi-še-ur5-ra di Umma e di Girsu
No full textNota sulle datazione dei messenger texts e dei testi-še-ur5-ra di Umma e di Girs
A New Annual Account of Wool from the Neo-Sumerian Province of Umma
No full textIn this article we present the transliteration and photographs of an unpublished Neo-Sumerian annual account of wool from
Umma kept in the Rosen Collection at Cornell University. A discussion of the different sections of this account, as well as a
comparison with other similar annual accounts of silver and wool are also offered
I messenger texts: la più numerosa categoria di testi nella documentazione neosumerica
No full textAnalisi della categoria testuale dei messenger texts dalle città di Umma e Girsu in epoca Neo-sumerica (2112-2004 a.C.
Stealing Barley in Ur III: a Detective Story?
No full textThis contribution is a little token of friendship for the Jubilee. Franco (Francesco Pomponio) is a good friend since many years and, as many of the readers probably know, he is not only one of the best assyriologists of his generation (and beyond), but also a professional expert of thrillers and detective stories. This is the reason why I decided to sort out of the Ur III documentation, one of his main field of expertise, one peculiar story they seem to tell, probably related to a criminal action referring to barley theft, in the hope that Franco will find it intriguing enough for his sophisticated literary taste
“I Want to Break Free”: model contracts recording slave self-emancipation
No full textThis paper presents a study of five cuneiform tablets which belong to the category of Sumerian model contracts. It is a great pleasure for me to dedicate this modest contribution to Prof. Francesco Pomponio, who devoted much of his career to the study of Sumerian texts. I would like to express my gratitude to him who, back in 2002, together with Prof. Franco D’Agostino and Prof. Lorenzo Verderame introduced me (an inexperienced young graduate) to the cuneiform tablets in the glorious “tablet room” (i.e., the British Museum Study Room for the Middle East collections)
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