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Nergal and Ereškigal. By Simonetta Ponchia and Mikko Luukko
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Nergal and Ereškigal. By Simonetta Ponchia and Mikko Luukko. State Archives of Assyria Cune- iform Texts, vol. 8. Helsinki: The Neo-AssyiIan Texy Corpus Project, 2013. Pp. cviii + 82. $44 (paper). [Distributed by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Ind.]


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The Neo-Assyrian Adê Protocol and the Administration of the Empire
No full textthe article analyses administrative and juridical instruments and dynamics of political control implemented by the Neo- Assyrian empire in provincial areas. It considers in particular the meaning and function of the loyalty treaties in relation to the recent discovery of a document of this type in the site of Tell Taynat, capital of the Assyrian province of Kinalia
Immagini di religiosità italiota: le sirene dei pinakes di Locri Epizefiri
No full textLa figura ibrida della c.d. ‘Regina della Notte’, discusso rilievo in terracotta di età paleobabilonese, è lo spunto per un’analisi dell’iconografia delle sirene nell’arte e nell’artigianato greco e magnogreco e del rapporto fra le principali divinità femminili greche e le donne-uccello. La presenza delle sirene nelle scene che decoravano i pinakes del Persephoneion di Locri Epizefirii contribuisce a chiarire la personalità delle due dee principali di Locri, Kore-Persephone e Afrodite, a cui le sirene sembrano particolarmente legate, almeno in età arcaica e protoclassica. The hybrid figure of s.c. 'Queen of the Night', discussed Early-Babylonian terracotta relief, is the starting point for analysing the iconography of the Sirens in Greek art and craft and the relationship between the most important Greek goddesses and women-bird . The presence of the sirens in the scenes that decorated the pinakes of Persephoneion of Locri Epizefirii help to explain the personalities of the two main goddesses of Locri, Kore-Persephone and Aphrodite, to whom the sirens seem particularly related, at least in the Archaic and Early Classic age
The Sabaean Presence in Jawf in the Eighth-Seventh Centuries BC Notes on the Oldest Phase of Ancient South Arabian Culture and Its Relationship with Mesopotamia
No full textThe history of Jawf is of fundamental importance in studying both the beginning of overland trade between the Sabaeans and the Near East, and also the genesis of ancient south Arabian (ASA) culture. The region of Jawf is located in the westernmost part of the area of ASA culture in southern Arabia. The main kingdoms of Jawf in the eighth century BC were Nashshan, Kamna, and Haram; their respective territories did not extend much beyond the boundaries of the cities themselves. One important factor to be remembered is that similarly to the Syro-Palestinian area, the name of a kingdom in South Arabia was normally that of the tribe (king of Israel, king of Aram, parallel to king of Saba, king of Qataban, etc.) and not that of the capital city. In the kingdoms of Jawf the name of the tribe coincided with that of the capital city (king of Nashshan, king of Haram, king of Kamna). This might be the mark of a transition from an
urban-based organisation of the state, to be set in an as yet hypothetical Bronze Age in Jawf, towards a “national” type of organisation
Reflections about City Administration, Record-keeping and the Management of Primary Resources at Tell Beydar/Nabada
No full textLooking for threads of transmission and change in II millennium heroic narrative
No full textThe article examines the heroic narrative of the Old Babylonian period, and especially the tradition of the kings of Akkad. These texts are compared with recently edited literary texts from Mari and from Assur. Similarities and changes are analyzed and the formation of a literary tradition in the scribal milieu, as well as its possible appreciation by military elites, evaluated
Essere senza un padre: una nota su Gilgamesh
No full textGilgamesh, che è caratterizzato da una natura per due terzi divina, non appare chiaramente identificato nel poema con un padre. Ciò lo accomuna almeno in parte a altri personaggi chiave del poema e lo differenzia dai suoi sudditi di Uruk. Questo aspetto viene discusso in riferimento al tema centrale del poema: la ricerca vana dell'immortalità
Foreigners, Deportees and Slaves as Agents of Change and Cultural Transfer. Some Reflections on the Neo-Assyrian Period
No full textSlavery has often been connected with foreign provenance, as a result of wars or through trade. Slaves were often forcefully displaced people who, like deportees, had various relations with the communities they lived in and differing possibilities of expressing and transmitting their own culture. The focus of this paper is to look for traces of these dynamics in everyday life, i.e. to identify patterns of social relations and administrative organization which determined how deportees and slaves acted and were managed in the scenario of the Neo-Assyrian empire
Arbail(-)lāmur! (1) On the people of Arbela
No full textPeoples and personal names connected with the city of Arbela in Neo-Assyrian documents provide glimpses of various aspects of the city life and its role within the administrative machinery of the empire and insights into the role of urban elites in military, political, economic, and cultic sectors
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