17:00 -20:00

Registration

8.30

Registration (continuation)

Prof. Dídac Ramírez (Rector of the UB)
Prof. Piotr Michalowski (President of the IAA)
Prof. Joaquín Sanmartín (Organization of the RAI 2010)

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Regine Pruzsinszky

Chair: Jerrold Cooper

Chair: Alfonso Archi

Jana Mynarova
"Those were the days". Time and History in the Amarna Letters

Salvatore Monaco
Some new light on Pre-Sargonic Umma

Daria Gromova
The Historical Preamble of the Talmi-Sharruma Treaty (CTH 75) and Some Chronological Problems of the History of Halap

Hanadah Tarawneh
Recalling the past in the Amarna Letters

Marcos Such-Gutiérrez
Der Kalender von Adab im 3. Jahrtausend

Alice Mouton
Time and Space in the Hittite Rites of Passage

Fabrizio Giovannetti
The evolution of the side court house in late MBA central and south-western Anatolia

Magnus Widell
Time and History in the Ur III Period

Juergen Lorenz
"Lange Jahre" in hethitischen Texten

Katrien De Graef
Historias difíciles, tiempos complicados! Chronological Implications of the Kûyâ Archive (Šimaškean Dynasty – Early Sukkamahat, Susa)

Jorge Hernández
The role of the sanga in Ur III based on the Drehem texts

Alessandro Di Ludovico
The Heuristic Value of Metahistory and Related Concepts as Theoretical Instruments in the Research on Mesopotamian Cultural History

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Workshop: Middle Assyrian Texts and Studies

Chair: Johannes C. de Moor

Chair: Frederik M. Fales

Chair: Walter Farber

Jaume Llop
Presentation

Mikko Luukko
The Language of Power: Neo-Assyrian Royal Letters under Scrutiny

Stefan M. Maul
Gemeinsam den Gott ernähren. Überlegungen zur politischen Bedeutung des Opfers vor Assur in mittelassyrischer Zeit

Joshua Jeffers
The Palace Reliefs of Sennacherib's Fifth Campaign

Sergey Loesov
Time in Language: The Ways Akkadian Expresses the Present-Time Sense

Sören Minx
Außenansichten - Harran in mittelassyrischen Texten

Mehmet-Ali Ataç
The Changing Approaches to History in the Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs

Anson F. Rainey
Akkadian and the Hebrew Tenses

Cinzia Pappi – Wilfred van Soldt
New Archaeological Research at Tell Satu Qala (Iraqi-Kurdistan)

Selim Ferruh Adali
Tugdamme and the Cimmerians: A Test of Piety in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Jonathan Taylor
New fragments of Babylonian yesteryear

Aline Tenu
Imperial Culture: Some reflections on Middle Assyrian settlements

Dominique Charpin
ARCHIBAB, a new databank on-line

Coffee Break

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Peter Machinist

Chair: Cinzia Pappi

Chair: Piotr Michalowski

Tom Boiy
Late Babylonian time management: counting years or facts and fiction in the Babylon King List

Frederik M. Fales
The Rural Landscape of Middle Assyrian Dur-Katlimmu

Eckart Frahm
Contemporizing tendencies in text commentaries from 7th century Assur

Daniel Bodi
Akkadian and Aramaic Terms for a 'Favorable Time' (hidannu and 'iddan): Semitic Precursors of Greek kairos?

J. Cale Johnson
Comparative agronomies: How do the bookkeeping practices of the Ur III and Middle Assyrian agricultural regimes measure up?

Geert De Breucker
Berossos and Babylonian history

Fabrice De Backer
Notes on the Neo-Assyrian Siege-Shield and Chariot

John Nicholas Postgate
Measuring grain (read by A. Stone)

Kamran Vincent Zand
Observation on the UD.GAL.NUN-orthography

Giovanni Pettinato
Eridu Texts

Hervé Reculeau
Good Times, Bad Times: environmental issues of Middle Assyrian state agriculture

Laurent Colonna D'istria
Les noms de mois durant l'époque des shakkanaku de Mari

13:30-16:00

Lunch Break

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Gregorio del Olmo Lete

Chair: Stefan M. Maul

Chair: Karlheinz Kessler

16:00-16:30

Federico Giusfredi
Further Considerations on the Ankara Silver Bowl

Yigal Bloch
Middle Assyrian Lunar Calendar and Chronology

Natalie Naomi May
'I read the inscriptions from before the flood...' Neo-Sumerian influences in Ashurbanipal's royal self image

16:30-17:00

Baruch Levine
From the 'olam of the Past to the 'olam of the Future: Time in Ancient Israel

Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Middle Assyrian Eponyms of the 13th and 12th cent. and the eponym-list from Ashur (read by C. Johnson)

Violetta Cordani
One-year or five-year War? A Reappraisal of Shuppiluliuma's First Syrian Campaign

17:00-17:30

Herbert Niehr
The Phoenician Inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmunazor (KAI 14): Redaction history and historical implications

Stefan Jakob
Sag mir quando, sag mir wann

Karen Sonik
The Monster's Gaze: Vision as Mediator Between Time and Space in the Art of Mesopotamia

17:30-18:00

Pierre Bordreuil
Autour du 80e anniversaire du déchiffrement de l'alphabet cunéiforme d'Ougarit (1930-2010)

Jaume Llop
The Eponym Bēr-nādin-apli

Steven Lundström
Some Thoughts on Assyrian Stone Palaeography

Sara Tricoli
Ritual Time: the ceremony of Nam-Tar in Mesopotamia and the renewal of the cosmic and social order

BOARDROOM - FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY

19:00

IAA Board Meeting

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Fumi Karahashi

Chair: Wilfred G.E. Watson

Chair: Guy Bunnens

Laura Battini 
Time in Assurnasirpal's reliefs

Marie-Françoise Besnier
The Series Shumma izbu, between "stream of tradition" and local particularities

Jesús Gil Fuensanta
Juan Manuel González Salazar
Some thoughts about the Late Chalcolithic Architecture and Uruk Expansion in the Middle Euphrates Area

Yi Chen
The Primeval Time of Origins in Sumerian and Babylonian Traditions

JoAnn Scurlock
Ancient Roots for the Sefirothic Tree?

Javier Álvarez-Mon
Metal Wares and Pottery Assemblages of the Late Neo-Elamite Period

Elizabeth Stone
Mesopotamian Settlement Structure: The View from Space

Matthew Rutz
A thread for Esagil-kin-apli: on the early history of the medical diagnostic handbook

Sara Pizzimenti
The Other Face of the Moon. Some Hints on the Visual Representation of the Moon as Temporal Element in the III Millenium BC Mesopotamian Glyptic

Dominique Charpin
Nele Ziegler
Masters of Time: Old Babylonian Kings and Calendars

Daniel Bonneterre
L'incorruptible et l'éphémère: le miel et la glace, composants sacrés des boissons royales

Olivier Rouault
Recent Researches in the Erbil region: 2010 excavations in Kilik Mishik (Iraqi Kurdistan)

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Joan Westenholz
The Once and Future King, The Paradigmatic Nature of History

Eleanor Robson
The stream of tradition 50 years on

Amitai Baruchi-Unna
Genres Meet: Assurbanipal's Prayer in the Inscription L4 and the Bilingual Communal Lamentations

Rick Hauser
Life Extension. Secondary Burial and the Making and Unmaking of Self in EB IA

Ilan Peled
Eunuchs throughout the History of the Ancient Near East: A Reassessment

Heather D. Baker
The real meaning of tuppi

Marc Lebeau
Recent Discoveries at Tell Beydar (Syria)

Reinhard Pirngruber
History and divination. The ominous references in the Astronomical Diaries

Cynthia Jean
Magie et Histoire: les rituels en temps de guerre

Marc Lebeau
Walther Sallaberger
The ARCANE Project on the chronology of the third millennium

Aaron Tugendhaft
Politics and Time in the Baal Cycle

Alessio Palmisano
Computational and Spatial Approaches to the Commercial Landscapes and Political Geography of the Old Assyrian Colony Period

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Workshop: Hurrian Language

Chair: Karen Nemet-Nejat

Chair: Robert Biggs

Chair: David Owen

Pawel Kociszewski
Time as antivalue. Mesopotamian historiosophy and everyday life

Petr Charvat
Three kings of the Orient (in archaic Ur)

Jeanette C. Fincke
The value of the Nuzi-texts for the Hurrian dictionary

Eran Cohen
On the Nature of the Conditional Structures in the OB Law Collections

Giuseppe Visicato
The weavers in Middle Sargonic Adab

Mauro Giorgieri
Die hurritische Grammatik heute: ein Überblick

Paul Zimansky
Who lived in an Urartian city?

Cristina Di Bennardis
Jorge Silva Castillo
La conduite des gouvernants et le sort des états mésopotamiens, à la lumière d’un document des Archives Royales de Mari (ARM 1,3)

Juan Oliva
Gedanken zu den Textstellen I:90 und III:30 in dem Mittani-Brief

Ilona Zsolnay
Unjustly Condemned: A Re-investigation of Sennacherib’s Sacrilege

Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
Laurent Colonna d’Istria
Ilum-ishar et Apil-kin, deux nouvelles inscriptions de Mari-Tell Hariri

Stefano De Martino
The Use of Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Hatti

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Workshop: Early Akkadian
and its Semitic Context

Workshop: Architecture
and Archaeology

Chair: Konrad Volk

Chair: Marco Bonechi

Chair: Maria Gabriella Micale

Caroline Waerzeggers
The Babylonian chronicles reconsidered

Leonid Kogan
On some orthographic oppositions on the Old Babylonian copies of Sargonic royal inscriptions

Pedro Azara
Jordi Abadal et al.
Virtual Reconstruction of a Neo-Assyrian Palace at Tell Massaïkh

Bonnie Nilhamn
The ring a symbol for eternity? (aka 'The Beaded ring part II')

Walter Sommerfeld
Continuity and discontinuity in early Akkadian

Davide Nadali
The invented space. Building Near Eastern architecture with imagery representations and constructions

Anne Goddeeris
The history of a family estate. Five generations inheriting

Ekaterina Markina
Economic documents of the Sargonic period as linguistic evidence

Paola Poli
Assyrian Wall Paintings and Modern Reconstructions

Saana Svärd
Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Jan Keetman
Zur Herkunft, Form und Datierung semitischer Lehnworte im Sumerischen

Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault
Fragments d'arts mésopotamiens: aux origines des empires

Coffee Break

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Theo J.H. Krispijn

Chair: Walter Sommerfeld

Chair: Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault

Camille Lecompte
Temps et évolution des cultures aux époques archaïques: le cas des listes lexicales

Bert Kouwenberg
Presentative Particles in Older Akkadian

Brigitte Pedde
Reception of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture in Europe and North America in the 20th Century

Paola Negri Scafa
'Internal' and 'External' Evidence for a Reconstruction of Nuzi Chronologies

Marco Bonechi
The Suffix -an in the Semitic Lexicon of the Ebla Texts

Fernando Escribano
Idea and Image. How what we know determine what we want to know

Frederick M. Fales
Time in Neo-Assyrian Letters

Eulàlia Vernet Pons
Stativität und Perfektivität im Ost- und Westsemitischen Sprachen

Maria Gabriella Micale
Architecture and Ancient Near East in Drawings, Buildings and Virtual Reality: Issues in Imagining and Designing Ancient and Modern Space

Jacob Klein
"In Those Distant Days" - Time Unit Expressions in Mesopotamian Literature

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Workshop: Law in the Ancient Near East

Chair: Antoine Cavigneaux

Chair: Eva Von Dassow

Chair: Karel van Lerberghe

Mark Geller
Time for Babylonian Medicine

Cornelia Wunsch
Legal Narrative in Neo-Babylonian Practice Texts

Munther Abdul Malik
The Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from Namrud (Kalih)

Krzysztof Ulanowski
Divine or Human Creation of Time? The Issue of Time as a Factor Determinig the Role of Man to God

Martha Roth
Acts and Actors in the Laws of Hammurabi: The Bodily Injury Provisions

Alexander Andrason
Old Babylonian Iparras - A cognitively based explanation of its temporal, aspectual and modal meaning

Wilfred G. Lambert
Time as a Cosmological Principle in Sumerian and Babylonian Thought

Rachel Magdalene
Legal Science Then an Now: Theory and Method in the Work of Raymond Westbrook

Natia Phiphia
Historical Memory about Migration of the Kaskians in the Western Georgia

Erika Johnson
Time and Again: Marduk's Travels

Eleonora Ravenna
Cultural Foundations of Law. Contributions of the Anthropological Theory to the Interpretation of the Old Babylonian Juridical Phenomena

Alessio Palmisano
Settlement Patterns and Interactions in the West Bank highlands in the Iron Age I period. A new approach

Coffee Break

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Dominique Charpin

Chair: Martha Roth

Chair: Steven Garfinkle

Peter Dubovsky
Angry Gods Intervene into Human History

Eva Von Dassow
Labor and Liberty in the Late Bronze Age

Takayoshi Oshima
"Do not let me return to clay!"

Dina Katz
Time in death and Afterlife: The concept of time and the belief in Afterlife

Lena Fijalkowska
Private Ownership in Late Bronze Age Syria: the Case of Emar and Ekalte

Henry Stadhouders
A Time to Rejoice

Ulla Koch
Perception of Time in Babylonian Divination

Malgorzata Sandowicz
Time and Place. Circumstances of Swearing Assertory Oaths in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Periods

Susana B. Murphy
Reconsidering the categories of time in Ancient Iraq

Yasuyuki Mitsuma
A Ritual Offering of the Tribute from King Seleucus

Cristina Simonetti
The importance of time in Old Babylonian juridical texts

Olga Popova
Les particularités d'emploi des signes cunéiformes à différentes périodes de la langue hittite

Round Table (Josué J. Justel; Daniele Federico Rosa)

AULA MAGNA

AULA CAPELLA

AULA 0.1

Chair: Joaquín Sanmartín

Chair: Martin Worthington

Àngel Menargues Rajadell
The Mesopotamian idea of time through modern eyes (disruption and continuity)

Ilknur Taş
Unfinished Sculpture from a Quarry Karakiz Yozgat

Silvana Di Paolo
Dislocation in Space, Time and Meaning? The seal of Yaqarum from a Mesopotamian perspective

Zsolt Simon
Wer war Grosskönig I(a)+ra/i-TONITRUS der KARAHÖYÜK-Inschrift?

Kathleen McCaffrey
From Sumerian Vase to Assyrian Tree: The Evolution of the Sacred Marriage Rite

Anna Meshki
Kartvelian and Sumerian Language Similarities: UGULO- UGULA

Artak Movsisyan
The Sumerian Aratta and the Biblical Ararat (From prehistoric times to the historical events of 1st mill. BC)

Andrea Polcaro
The Tuleilat al-Ghassul Star Painting: an Hypothesis of a Solar Calendar in the IV millenium BC