Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East

Proceedings of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Würzburg 20–25 Jul

Gernot Wilhelm

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781575062457
• eBook ISBN: 9781575066752
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Altertum

In July, 2008, the International Association for Assyriology met in Würzburg, Germany, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme "Organization, Representation, and Symbols of Power in the Ancient Near East." This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 70 of the papers read at the 54th annual Rencontre, including most of the papers from two workshop sessions, one on "collective governance" and the other on "the public and the state." As the photo of the participants on the back cover demonstrates, the surroundings and ambience of the host city and university provided a wonderful backdrop for the meetings.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Das Ansehen eines altorientalischen Herrschers bei seinen Untertanen
• Chapter 2: L’exercice du pouvoir par les rois de laI ère Dynastie de Babylone: problèmes de méthode
• Chapter 3: Verwaltungstechnische Aspekteköniglicher Repräsentation: Zwei Urkunden über den Kult der verstorbenen Königeim mit elassyrischen Assur
• Chapter 4: Bild, Macht und Raum imneuassyrischen Reich
• Chapter 5: Die Rolle der Schrift in einer Geschichte der frühen hethitischen Staatsverwaltung
• Chapter 6: Collective Governance and the Role of the Palace in the Bronze Age Middle Euphrates and Beyond
• Chapter 7: Archaeological Evidence for Collective Governance along the Upper Syrian Euphrates during the Late and Middle Bronze Age
• Chapter 8: Textual Evidence for a Palace at Late Bronze Emar
• Chapter 9: Die Rolle der Stadt im spätbronzezeitlichen Emar
• Chapter 10: Les « Frères » en Syrie à l’époque du Bronze récent: Réflexions et hypothèses
• Chapter 11: Organization of Harrâdum, Suhum,18th–17th Centuries b.c., Iraqi Middle Euphrates
• Chapter 12: Ein Konflikt zwischen König und Ältestenversammlung in Ebla
• Chapter 13: The Public and the State in the Ancient Near East
• Chapter 14: From People to Public in the Iron Age Levant
• Chapter 15: Administrators and Administrated in Neo-Assyrian Times
• Chapter 16: The Babylonian Correspondence of the Seleucid and Arsacid Dynasties: New Insights into the Relations between Court and City during the Late Babylonian Period
• Chapter 17; La liste Lú A et la hiérarchie des fonctionnaires sumériens
• Chapter 18: Königslisten als Appellativ-Quellen
• Chapter 19: From King to God: The NAMEŠDA Title in Archaic Ur
• Chapter 20: The Uses of the Cylinder Seal as Clues of Mental Structuring Processes inside Ur III State Machinery
• Chapter 21: EN-Priestess: Pawn or Power Mogul?
• Chapter 22: Die Uruk I-Dynastie—ein Konstrukt der Isin-Zeit?
• Chapter 23: Neue Erkenntnisse zu den königlichen Gemahlinnen der Ur III-Zeit
• Chapter 24: Ĝeštinanna und die Mutter des Šulgi
• Chapter 25: Vom babylonischen Königssiegel und von gesiegelten Steinen
• Chapter 26: Marduk and His Enemies: City Rivalries in Southern Mesopotamia
• Chapter 27: Text im Bild — Bild im Text: Bildmotive als Bedeutungsträger von Machtansprüchen im hellenistischen Mesopotamien
• Chapter 28: The Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš
• Chapter 29: Aššur and Enlil in Neo-Assyrian Documents
• Chapter 30: “The Charms of Tyranny”:Conceptions of Power in the “Garden Scene” of Ashurbanipal Reconsidered
• Chapter 31: King’s Direct Control: Neo-Assyrian Qēpu Officials
• Chapter 32: Triumph as an Aspect of the Neo-Assyrian Decorative Program
• Chapter 33: Local Power in the Middle Assyrian Period: The “Kings of the Land of Māri” in the Middle Habur Region
• Chapter 34: Women, Power, and Heterarchy in the Neo-Assyrian Palaces
• Chapter 35: Organising the Interaction between People: a New Look at the Elite Houses of Nuzi
• Chapter 36: Les femmes comme signe de puissance royale: la maison du roi d’Arrapḫa
• Chapter 37: Power Transition and Law: The Case of Emar
• Chapter 38: The Representatives of Power in the Amarna Letters
• Chapter 39: Herrscherrepräsentation und Kult im Bildprogramm des Aḥirom-Sarkophags
• Religion and Politics at the Divine Table:The Cultic Travels of Zimrī-Līm