Vicino Oriente

Eridu, Enki e l’ordine del mondo

Eridu è ancor oggi, dopo le poche e intense campagne di scavo archeologico che ne rivelarono, già alla metà del secolo scorso, i sui oltre settemila anni di vita, unanimemente riconosciuta come una delle più importanti capitali sante della Mesopotamia antica, come il luogo abitato dal dio della creazione Enki e come la sede, prediletta dagli dei, su cui, secondo il testo cardine della più arcaica storiografia vicino-orientale, la Lista Reale Sumerica, sarebbe discesa, prima del Diluvio, la regalità in terra.

Timing space / Spacing time. Narrative principles in Assurbanipal hunt reliefs of Room C in the North Palace of Nineveh

The theme of the royal lion hunt occupies several rooms in the North Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh; if Sennacherib’s Southwest Palace can in fact be rightly considered a monument for display of military successes of the Assyrian king and his army, the palace built by Assurbanipal (the last

Yumuktepe early ceramic production. Dark versus light coloured wares and the construction of social identity

This book is a monograph which follows the international symposium on ‘The emergence of pottery in West Asia: the search for the origin of pyrotechnology’, which was held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, on 29 and 30 October, 2009. This symposium was the first serious meeting to discuss the Neolithic pottery of this region by pottery experts. The paper by Balossi Restelli discusses the characters, use and symbolic meaning of the earliest pottery at the site of Yumuktepe (Mersin, Turkey).

The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume, then, offers a series of examinations of literary data and materials from different areas of the Classical World and the Near East in ancient times and in late Antiquity, examined both synchronically and diachronically, in some cases in dialogue with one another.

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