Proceedings of the 53th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

The second half of the proceedings, City Administration in the Ancient Near East, is available via the “also of interest” link at the bottom of the page.

Language in the Ancient Near East Opening Lectures

C. Wilcke Sumerian: What We Know and What We Want to Know

W. Sommerfeld Prä-Akkadisch Die Vorläufer der “Sprache von Akkade” in der frühdynastischen Zeit Languages of the Ancient Near East

W. Mori Notes on the Plural Bases in Sumerian

S. Parpola Sumerian: A Uralic Language

A. Sideltsev Proleptic Pronouns in Middle Hittite

Zs. Simon Das Problem der phonetischen Interpretation der anlautenden scriptio plena im Keilschriftluwischen

E. Vernet i Pons Die Wurzelstruktur im Semitischen Überlegungen zur Rekonstruktion des Wurzelvokals

K. Wagensonner Early Lexical Lists Revisited. Structures and Classification as a Mnemonic Device

Sumerian and Akkadian Literature and Literary Language

B. R. Foster Similes in the Gilgamesh Epic

A. R. George The Sign of the Flood and the Language of Signs in Babylonian Omen Literature

C. Jean You Recite the Incantation “I am a pure man.” Qabû, manû or dababu?

C. Michel Le langage figuré dans les lettres paléo-assyriens Expressions relatives à l’homme et à la nature

C. Mittermayer Structural Analysis of Enmerkara and the Lord of Arata

R. Oreschko Über Spiegel, Bronze aus Dilmun in altsumerischer Zeit

I. Zsolnay Ištar, “Goddess of War, Pacifier of Kings”: An Analysis of Ištar’s Martial Role in the Maledictory Sections of the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Sumerian and Akkadian Lexicon and Terminology

I. Arkhipov Les véhicules terrestres dans les textes de Mari.

B. Lion, C. Michel Le cochon dans les listes lexicales: quelles logiques de classement?

N. May The Qersu in Neo-Assyrian Cultic Setting Its Origin, Identification, Depiction and Evolution

H. Reculeau Périphérique ou local? Le vocabulaire des paysages de la Valée de l’Euphrate au IIe millénaire av. n. è.

Language in the Ancient Near East: Papers outside the Main Topics

The Correspondence between Verbal and Nominal Morphology in Sumerian

M. Civil Sumerian Compound Verbs: Class II

P. Delnero The Sumerian Verbal Prefixes im-ma- and im-mi-

F. Karahashi Argument Structure of Sumerian Verbs II: The Transitive-Ditransitive Alternation

G. Zólyomi The Case of Sumerian Cases

Akkadian: Diachrony and Contact

V. Golinets Amorite Names Written with the Sign Ú and the Issue of the Suffixed Third Person Masculine Singular Pronoun in Amorite

N. J. C. Kouwenberg The Recycling of the T-infix in Prehistoric Akkadian: A Case of Exaptation

M. P. Streck Innovations in the Neo-Babylonian Lexicon

M. Worthington i-ba-aš-šu-ú vs. i-ba-aš-šu from Old to Neo-Babylonian

Morphosyntax and Text Structure in Akkadian

E. Cohen Conditional Structures in the Old Babylonian Omens

C. W. Hess Oblique Core Arguments in Akkadian

G. H. Kaplan Morphosyntactic Structure of the Premises in the Neo-Babylonian Laws

S. Loesov Akkadian Sentences about the Present Time (II/2)

N. Wasserman The Enclytic Particle -mi within the Framework of Old Babylonian Epistemic Modality—A New Understanding

Peripheral Akkadian

Z. Cochavi-Rainey Akkadian Written by Egyptian Scribes in the 14th and 13th Centuries BCE

Y. Cohen The “Second Glosses” in the Lexical Lists from Emar: West Semitic or Akkadian?

J. Ikeda Was Akkadian Spoken in Emar? Diglossia in Emar

A. F. Rainey The Hybrid Language Written by Canaanite Scribes in the 14th Century BCE

J.-P. Vita Scribes and Dialects in Late Bronze Age Canaan

E. von Dassow Peripheral Akkadian Dialects, or Akkadography of Local Languages?

Limited-corpus Languages of the Ancient Near East

M. Giorgieri Zu den sogenannten Wurzelerweiterungen des Hurritischen Allgemeine Probleme und Einzelfälle

P. M. Goedegebuure The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base

N. V. Harouthyounyan New Observations on Urartian Vocabulary

J. Hazenbos Hurritisch und syntaktische Ergativität

M. Khachikyan On the Genesis of the Category of Aspect/Tense in Hurro-Urartian, Sumerian and Elamite

M. Salvini Les deux stèles de Rusa III, fils d’Erimena, provenant du Kesis Göl

O. Soysal Zum Namen der Göttin Kata

zipuri mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kasussystems des Hattischen

J. Tavernier On the Sounds Rendered by the s-, šand´/z-Series in Elamite

Papers outside the Main Topics Religion and Ideology

V. Bartash Pu

ru: Assembly as a Political Institution in Enuma eliš (Preliminary Study)

V. V. Emelianov On the Early History of melammu

J. Klein The Assumed Human Origin of Divine Dumuzi: A Reconsideration

Mesopotamia and the Bible

M. B. Dick Foreign Languages and Hegemony

B. A. Levine Cognate Patterns in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Tracing the Lineage of Psalm 110

J. M. Sasson Where Angels Fearlessly Tread: Mari Insights on Genesis 19

Presentation of Posters

L. Pecha, F. Rahman The Old Babylonian Text Corpus Project (http://www.klinopis.cz/nobtc)

S. Ticca, S. Viaggio The Project “Duplicazione e Rinascita.” Cataloguing of Objects and Texts in Cuneiform Preserved in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad