Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 59: LAW AND (DIS)ORDER IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST PROGRAMME July 2013 / Ghent

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1 Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 59: LAW AND (DIS)ORDER IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST PROGRAMME July 2013 / Ghent

2 Sunday 14 July 2013 Raadzaal Registration Monday 15 July 2013 Raadzaal Registration (continuation)

3 Monday 15 July 2013 Morning Session AULA GHENT UNIVERSITY (Voldersstraat 9, 9000 Ghent) WELCOMING SESSION Luc MOENS, Vice-Rector UGent Johnny DEVREKER, Honorary Dean Humanities Faculty UGent Katrien DE GRAEF, Chair Organizing Committee 59 e RAI Piotr MICHALOWSKI, President International Association for Assyriology (IAA) Sophie DÉMARE-LAFONT, Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality? Marc VAN DE MIEROOP, The Conception of Order in Mesopotamian Culture Piotr MICHALOWSKI, The Pleasures of Contingency and Chaos: Mesopotamian Vistas OPENING SESSION (Keynote Speakers) Lunch break

4 Auditorium NB1 Session 1: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East (General Approaches, Epigraphy) Chair: Antoine CAVIGNEAUX Jacob KLEIN, From Agade to Samaria: The Inflationary Price of Barley in Situations of Famine Daniel BONNETERRE, Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment Quelques remarques sur l usage du serment rituel de loyauté (depuis la documentation d Ur III jusqu à l époque néo-assyrienne) Monday 15 July 2013 Afternoon Session EMILE BRAUN SCHOOL (Voldersstraat 3, 9000 Ghent) Auditorium C Workshop The Study of Ancient Near Eastern History: Methods and Approaches organised by Marc VAN DE MIEROOP Chair: Marc VAN DE MIEROOP Steven GARFINKLE, Introduction Seth RICHARDSON, Mesopotamian Political History: Some Perversities Daniel FLEMING, Chasing Down the Mundane: The Near East with Social Historical Interest Sandra JACOBS, Made to Measure? Proportioning Punishment to Fit the Crime Niek VELDHUIS, Intellectual History and Assyriology Coffee break

5 Auditorium NB1 Session 2: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Chronicles and Astronomical Diaries Chair: Theo J.H. KRISPIJN Auditorium C Session 3: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Iconography Chair: Michael ROAF Yasuyuki MITSUMA, Compilation of the Late Babylonian Standard Astronomical Diaries Agnete Wisti LASSEN, Seal Collecting and Recarving in the Old Assyrian Period Representational Strategies in Glyptic Imagery Geert DE BREUCKER, Order or Just Disorder? The Babylonian Chronicles and the Development of a Historical Canon Astrid VERHULST, Order! Order! On the Standardization of Old Babylonian Seal Scenes from Sippar through the Reconstruction of Two Families and their Seals Noemi COLOMBO, Plaque Kh. VI:81: Transition from Ancient Laws to a New (Dis)Order

6 Tuesday 16 July 2013 Morning Session Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 4a: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Literature Chair: Benjamin FOSTER Nathan WASSERMAN, Je t aime moi non plus : New Perspectives on Akkadian Love Lyrics Michela PICCIN, Strategies of Persuasion in the Hymn to Marduk (Ludlul I, 1 40) Joanna TÖYRÄÄNVUORI, The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation in the Ancient Near East Session 5: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East (General Approaches, Archaeology) Chair: Katrien DE GRAEF Elisabeth WAGNER-DURAND/Julia LINKE, Putting Life in Order: the Architecture of the New Excavations in Kamid el-loz, Lebanon Lauri MÄNTYLÄ, Hilani Buildings in the Neo- Assyrian Provinces: Appropriation or Adoption? Coffee break Workshop Towards an Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Near East organised by KLAAS R. VEENHOF and Gojko BARJAMOVIC Gojko BARJAMOVIC, Welcome Klaas R. VEENHOF, Current Problems in the Study of the Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Near East Felix HÖFLMAYER, Integrating Chronologies: Egypt, the Aegean and the Ancient Near East in the Mid Second Millennium BC Walther SALLABERGER, Third Millennium BC Chronologies of the Near East Jared MILLER, Chronological Synchronisms between Babylon and Assyria, Egypt and Hatti Werner NAHM, The Case for the Lower Middle Chronology Teije DE JONG, Astronomical Fine-tuning of the Chronology of the Hammurabi Age Michael ROAF, Towards the Lower Middle Chronology But Not Yet There Gojko BARJAMOVIC, A New Look at the KEL G

7 Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 4b: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Literature Chair: Niek VELDHUIS Daniel BODI, Does the Human Noise (ḫubūru, rigmu) in Some Akkadian Myths Stand for Disorder? Cathérine MITTERMAYER, Order and Disorder in the Disputation between Bird and Fish Dahlia SHEHATA, Disorder and its Agents: The Akkadian Anzû-Myth Revisited Session 6: Law and (Dis)Order in Achaemenid Babylonia Chair: Jan TAVERNIER Malgorzata SANDOWICZ, Babylonian Judges, Persian Kings: Court System under Regime Change Reinhard PIRNGRUBER, Creating Economic Disorder: the Case of Late Achaemenid Babylonia Workshop Towards an Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Near East organised by KLAAS R. VEENHOF and Gojko BARJAMOVIC Denis LACAMBRE, The Eponym Ahiyaya in the Chagar Bazar Documentation Yigal BLOCH, The Eponyms Dating the Conquests of Šamši-Adad I in the Assyrian King List and their Apparent Absence from the Kültepe Eponym List Discussion Group Photo (Central Court Emile Braun School) Lunch break

8 Tuesday 16 July 2013 Afternoon Session Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 7a: Law and (Dis)Order in the in the Old Babylonian Period Chair: Brigitte LION Dalila BENDELLAL, Le vol à l époque Paléo-Babylonienn : l application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence Cristina SIMONETTI, When the Trial Does Not Work - Pathological Elements in the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian Period Marie-France SCOUFLAIRE, L institution des nipûtum dans les royaumes paléo-babyloniens Workshop Change in Neo-Assyrian Imperial Administration: Evolution and Revolution organised by Saana SVÄRD and Natalie N. MAY Chair: Saana SVÄRD Rajia MATTILA, Change or Chance? Studying Change in Neo- Assyrian Administration Simonetta PONCHIA, Neo-Assyrian Imperial Offices and Officials: Places, Roles and Actors of a Political Mentality Change Natalie Naomi MAY, Administrative Reforms of Sargon II and Tiglath-Pileser III Coffee break Session 8a: Law and (Dis)Order in Sumer Chair: Steven GARFINKLE Manuel MOLINA, Law and Order in Irisagrig Walther SALLABERGER, Transparency in Ancient Sumer? Discussing the Role of Administrative Documents Sarah CLEGG, Capacity Measures, the Temple and the State: Ordering Metrology at the End of the Third Millennium

9 Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 7b: Law and (Dis)Order in the Old Babylonian Period Chair: Michel TANRET Wiebke MEINHOLD, Erbrechtliche Regelungen und ihre Umsetzung im altbabylonischen Nippur Anne GODDEERIS, A Tangled Framework. A Calendric Innovation by Rim-Sîn Virginie MULLER, Rétablir l'ordre social par la mort dans les textes législatifs du début du IIème millénaire av. J. C. Workshop Change in Neo-Assyrian Imperial Administration: Evolution and Revolution organised by Saana SVÄRD and Natalie N. MAY Chair: Natalie MAY Kazuko WATANABE IWATA, Esarhaddon s Religious Reformation Effected by Means of the Succession Oath Documents Saana SVÄRD, Changes in Neo-Assyrian Queenship Melanie GROSS, Food and Drink for the Palace: the Management of Foodstuffs in Neo-Assyrian Times Session 8b: Law and (Dis)Order in Sumer Chair: Manuel MOLINA Steven GARFINKLE, What the Man of One Mina Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III Period Christina TSOUPAROPOULOU, Ordering the Archival Rooms at Puzrish-Dagan Daniele Umberto LAMPASONA, Putting Some Order in Ur III Letter-orders Raadzaal Board Meeting International Association for Assyriology (IAA)

10 Wednesday 17 July 2013 Morning Session Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 9a: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Language and Linguistics Chair: Alfonso ARCHI Leonid KOGAN, Waw sargonicum: Creating Syntactic Order in Early Akkadian Hans NEUMANN, Eid und Ordal als Beweismittel im Rahmen des gerichtlichen Beweisverfahrens der Akkade- Zeit Ainsley DICKS, igi du 8 vs. igi bar: Semantics, Subject- Specific Usage, and Theological Implications Workshop Gender, Methodology and Assyriology organised by Saana SVÄRD and Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA Chair: Dina KATZ Saana SVÄRD/Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA, Introductory Remarks Julia M. ASHER-GREVE, Sex and Gender Classification. The Potential of New Methods for Ancient Near Eastern Studies Ann GUINAN, Querying the Sounds of Silence: Mesopotamian Texts and Queer Theory Coffee break Workshop The Religion and Society of Ancient Ugarit organised by Wilfred VAN SOLDT chair: Pierre BORDREUIL Wilfred VAN SOLDT, Introduction Valérie MATOÏAN, The So-Called House of Rashapabu Hedwige ROUILLARD-BONRAISIN, Aspects sociologiques et religieux de la presence hourrite à Ougarit, d après les textes alphabétiques Discussion Françoise ERNST-PRADAL, Paléographie des tablettes musicales hourrites

11 Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 9b: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Language and Linguistics Chair: Bert KOUWENBERG C. Jay CRISOSTOMO, Bilingualism and "Laws" of Translation: Knowledge, Scholarship, and Language in Old Babylonian Lexicography Rodrigo HERNÁIZ, A Variationist Approach to Phonological Peculiarities of the Language in the Code of Hammurabi Workshop Gender, Methodology and Assyriology organised by Saana SVÄRD and Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA Chair: Jack SASSON Kathleen MCCAFFREY, (Mis)Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn't Have Been Competent in Akkadian, They Didn't Go to Yale Eleonora RAVENNA/Maria Rosa OLIVER, Who Imposes and Who Disposes? Ordering the Disorder in the Palace of Mari. Gender Relationships and the Assyriological Prospective Hanadah TARAWNEH, Legal Themes in the Amarna Letters Luciana URBANO, Marriage Policy in Mari as Field of Domination and Resistance. Some Reflections from the Gender Perspective Lunch break Workshop The Religion and Society of Ancient Ugarit organised by Wilfred VAN SOLDT chair: Valérie MATOÏAN Pierre BORDREUIL, Les preoccupations religieuses des diverses composantes de la société ougaritaine à partir des textes et de l iconographie: quelques exemples Wilfred VAN SOLDT, Divinities in Personal Names at Ugarit Meindert DIJKSTRA, El-Kunirsha in Hatti, Ugarit and Elsewhere

12 Wednesday 17 July 2013 Afternoon Session Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 9c: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Language and Linguistics Chair: Leonid KOGAN Mojca CAJNKO, Akkadian Prepositions and the Hittite Writing System Aline DISTEXHE, A Study in Assyrian Lexicography. The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo-Assyrian Letters Workshop Gender, Methodology and Assyriology organised by Saana SVÄRD and Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA Chair: Christina TSOUPAROPOULOU Brigitte LION, Gender and Methodology in the Study of the IInd Millennium BC Private Archives Saana SVÄRD, Female Agency and Authorship in Mesopotamian Texts Anna MESKHI, Sumerian, Kartvelian & Theory of Information Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA, Past and Present or How to Apply Some Proposals from Post-Feminism to Assyriology Coffee break Session 10: Law and (Dis)Order in the Middle Assyrian Period Chair: Heather BAKER Yigal BLOCH, Restoring Law and Order: the Weakening of the Assyrian Power in Hanigalbat in the Reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I and the King's Efforts to Restore Control over the Region Jaume LLOP, The Travelling King in the Middle Assyrian Archival Documentation Jo Ann SCURLOCK, Not Even Her Own Jewelry: A Woman's Property in the Middle Assyrian Laws

13 Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 11: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Geography Chair: Hartmut WAETZOLDT Workshop Gender, Methodology and Assyriology organised by Saana SVÄRD and Agnès GARCIA-VENTURA Chair: Eva VON DASSOW Session 12: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics and Medicine Chair: Jo Ann SCURLOCK Karlheinz KESSLER, Kar Assur and Artemita Project Presentations Maddalena RUMOR, From Iqīšâ to Pliny the Elder: a Case of Dreckapotheke Olof PEDERSÉN, Digital Ancient Near East and Digital Babylon: Two Projects and Their Integration Round Table Discussion Mathieu OSSENDRIJVER, The Powers of 9 and 12: New Mathematical Discoveries from Babylon Jan TAVERNIER, Disorder in the Head! Alcohol Abuse and Hangovers in the Ancient Near East Mark GELLER, Order and Algorithms in Babylonian Medicine AUGUSTIJNENKLOOSTER (Academiestraat 1, 9000 Ghent) Oriental Walking Dinner

14 Thursday 18 July 2013 Morning Session Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 13a: Law and (Dis)Order in the Neo-Assyrian Period Chair: Mark GELLER Eckart FRAHM/Grant FRAME, Some New Discoveries Related to the Inscriptions of Sargon II Heather D. BAKER, Disordered States? Homeland Security in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Session 14a: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near Eastern Periphery Chair: Hans NEUMANN Amanda PODANY, Royal Involvement in Late Bronze Age Contracts from Syria Eva VON DASSOW, Alalah between Mittani and Hatti, c BCE Jon TAYLOR, The Library of Ashurbanipal Online Lena FIJALKOWSKA, Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte a Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System? Coffee break Session 15a: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Divination and Omina Chair: Wilfred VAN SOLDT Netanel ANOR, Foreseeing the Future, Controlling the Present: Omens as a Tool to Help Conceptualize Social Order Alexandre LOKTIONOV/Christoph SCHMIDHUBER, Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Lecanomancy and its Place in the Mesopotamian Intellectual Milieu Gina KONSTANTOPOULOS, Udug and Lama: the Dual Nature of the āšipu's Protective Spirits

15 Auditorium NB1 Auditorium C Auditorium B Session 13b: Law and (Dis)Order in the Neo-Assyrian Period Chair: Eckart FRAHM Amitai BARUCHI-UNNA, Maintaining the Order: Gestures toward Babylonia in the Imgur-Enlil Inscription of Shalmaneser III of Assyria Krzysztof HIPP, For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace him One Hundred-fold. Fugitives/Runaways in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Andrew KNAPP, Why Did Esarhaddon Commission His Apology? Examining the Role of the Failed Egyptian Campaign Session 14b: Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near Eastern Periphery Chair: Richard BEAL Lucia MORI, The Places of Order: Notes on the Legal Landscape of the Land of Ashtata Paola NEGRI SCAFA, To be Guilty in Nuzi Lunch break Session 15b: Law and (Dis)Order in Ancient Near Eastern Divination and Omina Chair: Grant FRAME Jeanette FINCKE, Problems of Disorder. The Different Numbering Systems of the Omen Series enūma anu enlil Revisited Strahil PANAYOTOV, New Features of Tablets with a Handle ("Amulet-shaped Tablets"): Towards an Understanding of Their Function

16 Thursday 18 July 2013 Afternoon Session Auditorium NB1 Session 13c: Law and (Dis)Order in the Neo-Assyrian Period Chair: Jon TAYLOR Auditorium C Session 16: Archaeology Session Chair: Amanda PODANY Stefania ERMIDORO, The "Protocol for the Royal Banquet": Keeping Order at the King's Table Dlshad MARF ZAMUA, New Archaeological Evidence from the Land of Muṣaṣir/Ardini (Preliminary Report on Fieldwork ) Reettakaisa Sofia SALO, Fremde Götter eigene Götter. Zu den neuassyrischen Götterbeschreibungen Sanae ITO, References to Treaties in a Letter from Assurbanipal Coffee break Sedigheh PIRAN, A Steatite Axe Head from the Bronze Age Civilization in the Halil Rud River Basin, Jiroft Auditorium NB General Meeting International Association for Assyriology (IAA)

17 Auditorium C Session 17: Law and (Dis)Order in the Old Babylonian Period Chair: Anne GODDEERIS Jared MILLER, May Inanna and Bēlet-Agade Set the Base of your Throne : New Evidence on King Iluni of Ešnunna in the Old Babylonian Period Friday 19 July 2013 Morning Session Auditorium B Session 18: Law and (Dis)Order in Hatti Chair: Jeanette FINCKE Elena DEVECCHI, How Many Treaties? Considerations on the Corpus of the Hittite Treaties Rients DE BOER, The Ikun-piša Letter Archive from Early OB Sippar İlknur TAŞ/Veysel DINLER, The Assessment of Hittite Criminal Law According to Modern Paradigms Olga DREWNOWSKA, Il était une fois à Ešnunna... Un désordre dans le panthéon local de l époque paléo-babylonienne Coffee break Session 19: Law and (Dis)Order in the Old Babylonian and Kassite Periods Chair: Michel TANRET Sheyda JALILVAND SADAFI, Frauen als Erben in Susa Elyze ZOMER, Enmity against Samsu-ditāna Susanne PAULUS, Self-help, Prison, and Water Ordeal A New Outlook on Kassite Trials Vladimir SHELESTIN, The Parity Treaties between Hatti and Kizzuwatna in the Light of Earlier Traditions

18 Friday 19 July 2013 Closing Session Auditorium C CLOSING SESSION Wilfred VAN SOLDT, Secretary International Association for Assyriology (IAA)

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