2013. december 31., kedd

Az év könyvei

Az év utolsó napján immár hagyományosan kiválasztom azt a három könyvet, amelyeket az év legfontosabb publikációinak tartok. A kritériumok a szokásosak:

1. Ókori keletes kötet (tehát nem tanulmány).

2. Tartalmilag kiemelkedő és általános érvényű legyen.

3. Összesen három darab legyen.

Bár három évvel ezelőtt bevezettem azt is, hogy a konferencia-köteteket és az ünnepi köteteket a hullámzó színvonal miatt figyelmen kívül hagyom, ettől egy kötet kedvéért megint eltekintettem, mert, bármily hihetetlen is, azért akadnak még színvonalas konferenciák.

Az összeállítás természetesen, mint mindig, szubjektív, hiszen ez a számomra kiemelkedő munkák listája, értelemszerűen nem fogok tudni egyiptológiai munkákat méltatni. Ebben az évben elég sok kézikönyv jelent meg, ami jelentősen megnehezítette a választást, így a lista a szokásosnál is szubjektívabb.

1. Winfried Orthmann - Michel al-Maqdissi - Paolo Matthiae (ed.): Archéologie et histoire de la Syrie I. La Syrie de l'époque néolithique a' l'age du fer. Wiesbaden

Igazi hiánypótló munka, széleskörű áttekintés, kiváló szerzőgárdával.

2. K. A. Yener (ed.): Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations between Syria and Anatolia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Research Center of Anatolian Studies, Koç University, Istanbul, May 31 - June 1, 2010. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 42. Leuven

A késő bronzkor - vaskor átmenet sosem volt egy elhanyagolt téma Anatólia és Szíria vonatkozásában, de a megélénkült régészeti kutatás következtében az elmúlt években ömleni kezdtek az új információk, melyek sok esetben gyökeresen megváltoztatták ismereteinket, s melyhez naprakész áttekintést nyújt ez a multidiszciplináris (de régészeti hangsúlyú) kötet.

3. D. T. Potts (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. Oxford

Ha a Szíria-kötet hiánypótló volt, akkor ez überhiánypótló. Mást nem is kell róla mondani.

2013. december 30., hétfő

Decemberi könyvajánló

Cyril Brosch: Untersuchungen zur hethitischen Raumgrammatik. De Gruyter

The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. S/3 (se- to sizisalla-). Edited by Hans G. Güterbock, Harry Hoffner, and Theo van den Hout. Chicago

Robert Parker (ed.): Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia. PBA 191. Oxford

Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Band 13. Lieferung 7/8. (Telipinu. C. - Tiergarten). De Gruyter

Juan Manuel Tebes: Nómadas en la encrucijada: Sociedad, ideología y poder en los márgenes áridos del Levante meridional durante el primer milenio a.C. BAR S2574. Oxford

Cameron A. Petrie (ed.): Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC. Oxford

2013. december 29., vasárnap

Pályázat régészeti ismeretterjesztő dolgozatra

Archaeology for the People:

The Joukowsky Institute Competition for Accessible Archaeological Writing

As archaeologists, we write for each other in journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and other forums, using language that makes sense to fellow members of the profession. That is as it should be: we have no more reason to “dumb down” our findings than do, say, astronomers, brain surgeons, or epidemiologists in publications for their own communities of scholarship. At the same time, the results of archaeological discovery and analysis are important and deserve the widest possible audience: archaeology has momentous findings to report, and for the periods before written history stands as the only source of evidence we have for the human condition. Unlike other fields which have benefited from brilliant writing in a popular vein by scholars such as Stephen Jay Gould or Carl Sagan, archaeology as a discipline has done rather poorly at the effective communication of its most interesting and important results to the general public, and indeed to itself, which is also important. Certainly, some writers, such as Brian Fagan, have excelled at the task of popular dissemination of some of archaeology’s big themes. Yet most websites, TV shows, and archaeology magazines (such as Archaeology or Biblical Archaeology Review) tend to emphasize the sheer luck of discovery, the romance of archaeology, and supposed “mysteries” that archaeology tries (but usually has failed) to resolve.

We believe that archaeology is worthy of a better level of writing, one that is accessible and exciting to non-specialists, but at the same time avoids excessive simplification, speculation, mystification, or romanticization. As a discipline, we have some fascinating and astonishing results to report, findings that impact our entire understanding of who we are as a species, and how we have come to be as we are now. Some of the most effective writing in this vein has appeared not in professional venues, but in publications with a far wider readership. As just one example, we would cite Elif Batuman’s article in The New Yorker (December 19, 2011) on the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey, and the many fundamental questions it raises about religion, technology, and human social evolution.

With these thoughts in mind, and to encourage more writing in this vein, we propose a competition for new archaeological writing. We invite the submission of accessible and engaging articles, accompanied by a single illustration, that showcase any aspect of archaeology of potential interest to a wide readership. As an incentive, we offer a prize of $5,000 to the winner. The prize-winning article, together with those by eight to ten other runners-up, will be published in Spring 2015 in a volume of the Joukowsky Institute Publication series (published and distributed by Oxbow Books).

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Rules

Anyone may enter the competition, except faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.

Authors must be able to vouch that their article is solely their own work and has not been published elsewhere.

Articles should be about five to six thousand words in length; include no references, notes, or other scholarly apparatus; be accompanied by a single piece of artwork; and be submitted as a double-spaced Word
document. The first page should provide your name, address, and e-mail.

The deadline for receipt of entries is September 1, 2014. Articles must be submitted electronically, to joukowsky_institute@brown.edu

Submissions will be read anonymously and adjudicated by a panel consisting of faculty and postdoctoral fellows at Brown University.

The result of the competition will be announced by November 2014.

Questions concerning the competition should be directed to Prof. John Cherry (john_cherry at brown.edu) and Prof. Felipe Rojas (felipe_rojas at brown.edu).

2013. december 28., szombat

Gyorshír

Itt az új N.A.B.U. (2013/4), friss, ropogós (magyar szerzővel), töltsék le, olvasgassák!

2013. december 27., péntek

Anatóliai metál

Ünsal Yalçın (Hg.): Anatolian Metal VI. Der Anschnitt Beiheft 25. Bochum (= Fs Harald Hauptmann)

A tartalomból:

Hermann Parzinger: Deutsche archäologische Forschungen in der Türkei: Die Forschungsgeschichte aus deutscher Sicht

Mehmet Özdoğan: To Contemplate the Changing Role of Foreign Academicians in Turkish Archaeology. A Simple Narrative from Scientific Concerns to Political Scuffles

Sevil Gülçur: Entdeckungsreisen in Osmanischer Zeit

H. Gönül Yalçın: Heinrich Schliemann und die Entdeckung Troias

Lutz Martin: Max von Oppenheim - Diplomat, Orientalist und Ausgräber?

Zeynep Kuban: Zu Diensten: Carl Humann. Der archäologische Entrepreneur

Hans-Gert Bachmann: Kommagene und der Nemrut Dağ

Mirjo Salvini: Urartu: Forschungsgeschichte und Perspektiven

Klaus Schmidt: Adler und Schlange: "Großbilder" des Göbekli Tepe und ihre Rezeption

Rainer Czichon: Das Oymaağaç/Nerik(?)-Projekt 2005-2012

Engelbert Winter: Doliche und das Heiligtum des Iuppiter Dolichenus. 10 Jahre Grabungen auf dem Dülük Baba Tepesi - Ergebnisse und Perspektiven

Ekin Kozal - Mirko Novák: Sirkeli Höyük. A Bronze and Iron Age Urban Settlement in Plain Cilicia

Necmi Karul: Staudammprojekte und Rettungsgrabungen in der Türkei

2013. december 24., kedd

Boldog Karácsonyt!

Az Agyagtábla, papirusz blog szerzői a blog minden kedves Olvasójának boldog, békés karácsonyt kívánnak és sok szakkönyvet a fa alá / a bejgli mellé!

2013. december 22., vasárnap

Aramazd 7/1 (2012)

A tartalomból:

Christian Konrad Piller: A Hakkari-Type Dagger from “Eastern Anatolia.” Notes on the so-called ‘Daggers with a Crescent Guard'

Aram Kosyan: Notes on Hieroglyphic Luwian Political Terminology

Armen Petrosyan: Moon God and Denomination of Armenia

Kenan Işık, Bülent Genç: ­­­The Location of URUTušpa and A New Inscribed Column Base belonging to Išpuini, King of Urartu

Nora Yengibaryan: An Urartian Medallion from Sodk

Hanifi Biber, Kenan Işık, Sabahattin Erdoğan: A New Urartian Stele Fragment from Alazlı/Tirmet, Province of Muş

Kenan Işık, Rafet Çavuşoğlu, Bülent Genç: A New Urartian Inscription of Argišti I from Aznavurtepe near Patnos

2013. december 21., szombat

ZÄS 140/2 (2013)

A tartalomból:

D. Raue / F. Seyfried: Werner Kaiser

E. Brovarski: Overseers of Upper Egypt in the Old to the Middle Kingdoms

A. Dorn: Zur Lehre Amunnachts: Ein Join und Missing Links

B. Hinson: The Egyptian Item

G. Jennes: P + Sr + Personal Name: An Expression of Genealogical Relations?

K. Kirsten: Die Multiplen Kapitelle der Pflaneznsäulen im Grab des Sennedjem

M. Minas-Nerpel / M. De Meyer: Raising the Pole for Min in the Temple of Isis in Shanhur

Ch. Orsenigo: A Newly Identified Relief from the Tomb-Chapel of Mose at Saqqara

H. Wilde: Grabbeigaben und ihre symbolische Bedeutung anhand eines Konvolutes aus Giza (Mastaba D 208)

H. Willems: A Note on the Ancient Name of Dayr al Barsha

 

2013. december 19., csütörtök

Online elérhető PDF-ek listája (egyiptológia)

A University of Memphis diákjai összeállítottak egy listát az online elérhető egyiptológiai cikkekről / könyvekről. Bár ez még nem a végleges verzió, már most érdemes körbenézni rajta!

2013. december 17., kedd

FsMachinist

David S. Vanderhooft - Abraham Winitzer (eds.), Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature. Essays on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Peter Machinist. Winona Lake

A tartalomból:

Fearful Symmetry: The Poetics, Genre, and Form of Lines 109–118, Tablet I in the Poem of Erra (Yoram Cohen)

Menahem’s Reign Before the Assyrian Invasion (2 Kings 15:14–16) (Peter Dubovský)

Ethnicity in the Assyrian Empire: A View from the Nisbe, (I): Foreigners and “Special” Inner Communities (Frederick Mario Fales)

Creation and the Divine Spirit in Babel and Bible: Reflections on mummu in Enūma eliš I 4 and rûah in Genesis 1:2 (Eckart Frahm)

Niṣirti bārûti: une autre approche (Jean-Jacques Glassner)

Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literatures: A General Introduction (William W. Hallo)

“An Heir Created by Aššur”: Literary Observations on the Rassam Prism (A) of Ashurbanipal (Victor Avigdor Hurowitz*)

Literary-Political Motifs in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: Measuring Continuity versus Change (Mario Liverani)

Of Bears and Men: Thoughts on the End of Šulgi’s Reign and on the Ensuing Succession (Piotr Michalowski)

The Prophet and the Augur at Tušhan, 611 b.c. (Martti Nissinen)

Assyria and Judean Identity: Beyond the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule (Eckart Otto)

Psalm 22:16 and Its Sumerian and Akkadian Analogues (Shalom M. Paul)

The Remembrance of Kings Past: The Persona of King Ibbi-Sin (T. M. Sharlach)

Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission (Itamar Singer*)

How Did Šulgi and Išbi-Erra Ascend to Heaven? (Piotr Steinkeller)

Grammar and Context: Enki & Ninhursag ll. 1–3 and a Rare Sumerian Construction (Christopher Woods)

Towards a Biography of Kish: Notes on Urbanism and Comparison (Norman Yoffee)

2013. december 16., hétfő

Revue d'assyriologie 106-107 (2012-2013) (FsMatthiae)

106 (2012)

M. G. Amadasi Guzzo, Sidon et ses sanctuaires

M. G. Biga - A. M. G. Capomacchia, I testi di Ebla di ARET XI: una rilettura alla luce dei testi paralleli

M. Bonechi, More on the Ebla Gatekeepers

G. Buccellati, Towards a Linguistic Model for Archaeology

A. Catagnoti, In the Aftermath of the War. The Truce between Ebla and Mari (ARET XVI 30) and the Ransom of Prisoners

G. Chambon, Termini technici des textes administratifs d’Ébla : sur le sens de « é-dur(u)₅ki »

D. Charpin, “Temple-palais” et chapelles palatiales en Syrie aux troisième et deuxième millénaires av. J.-C.

P. Charvát, Seals from Near and Far. Notes on the Geographical Horizons of Sealings of Archaic Ur

F. d'Agostino, Some Considerations on u4-da-tuš (bear tamer?) and Jugglery in Ur III

S. Dalley, What did Ut-napišti say when he first caught sight of Gilgamesh?

S. De Martino, Hišni, Prince of Kargamiš

G. del Olmo Lete, KTU 1.169: A Compendium Incantation Tablet Against Black Word Sorcery

J.-M. Durand, Sargon a-t-il détruit la ville de Mari?

F. M. Fales, After Ta‘yinat : the New Status of Esarhaddon's adê for Assyrian Political History

B. R. Foster, A Footrest Fit for a Goddess

P. Fronzaroli, The Eblaic King’s Supplication to the Gods of the Night (TM.75.G.756+ 771+815)

L. Kogan, *naˤr- ‘garçon’ dans une lettre mariote

M. Liverani, “I Constructed Palaces throughout my Country”. Establishing the Assyrian Provincial Order: the Motif and Its Variants

107 (2013)

M. Marazzi, Scrittura: competenza e supporti scrittori fra Egeo, Egitto e Vicino Oriente nel II millennio a.C.

P. Michalowski, From the Collections of an Old Babylonian Literary Connoisseur

C. Mora, Sculptors in or from Hattuša?

D. Owen, Treasures of the Sacristy

J. Pasquali, Symbolique de mort et de renaissance dans les cultes et les rites éblaïtes : dga-na-na, les ancêtres et la royauté

F. Pomponio, Further Considerations on KIŠki in the Ebla texts

S. Ponchia, Riflessioni a cent'anni dalla polemica Babel-Bibel

G. Rubio, SANGA2: A Graphic Story

W. Sallaberger, Der Trinkhalm für Bier: ein präsargonischer Textbeleg

J. Sanmartín, Ars Syra: How to do Things with Words

J. M. Sasson, “It is for this reason that I have not come down to my lord …” Visit Obligations and Vassal Pretexts in the Mari Archives

P. Steinkeller, An Archaic “Prisoner Plaque” from Kiš

M. V. Tonietti, “Ich will den Kopf des Jochanaan”, or the Head of the King of Kakmium

C. Wilcke, Dieser Ur-Namma hier ... Eine auf die Darstellung weisende Statueninschrift

G. Wilhelm, The Dispute on Manumission at Ebla: Why does the Stormgod descend to the Netherworld

2013. december 15., vasárnap

Rivista di Studi Fenici 40/1 (2012)

Sergio Ribichini, Quaranta anni di studi fenici

Eric Gubl, Decoding Phoenician Art (I): Pharaoh Triumphant

Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi, Il sarcofago fenicio di Tell el-Maskhuta

Giovanni Garbini, Filistei, Fenici e Aramei nel Mediterraneo all'inizio del I millennio a.C.

Sandro Filippo Bondi', "Tucidide e i Fenici in Sicilia: una proposta di interpretazione

Enrico Acquaro, Mozia: scavi e ricerche. Dalle 'Lokalsagen' eraclidi a San Pantaleo, passando da Cartagine

Piero Bartoloni, Due anfore fenicie dalla periferia di Sulky

Lorenza-Ilia Manfredi, Da Cherchel a Méknès: nuove prospettive per gli studi sul Nord Africa punico

Mhamed Hassine Fantar, Stèles du tophet de Sousse

Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, Ancora sull'espressione 'figlio di Tiro' in fenicio

2013. december 14., szombat

2013. december 13., péntek

Előadás

Salamon szentélye nyomában
Meghívó

A Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar Történelemtudományi Doktori Iskolája tisztelettel meghívja Önt

J.P. Dessel
(Steinfeld Professor of Near Eastern History and Archaeology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

The Rise and Fall of Tell Tayinat-Kunulua:
Statuary and State Formation in the 'Amuq Valley, Turkey

című, angol nyelvű, vetített képes előadására

Időpont: 2013. december 20. (péntek) 15 óra
Helyszín: PPKE BTK, Sophianum (VIII. Mikszáth Kálmán tér 1), 203. terem

A törökországi Tell Tayinatban egy vaskori kisállam fővárosát, Kunulua szentélyét és palotáját tárták fel. A szentély kortársa és legközelebbi párhuzama a csak leírásokból ismert salamoni szentélynek. A lelőhelyen talált tárgyi és írásos [emlékek] a vaskori Szíria történetéhez, és közvetve a salamoni állam létrejöttének és vallási gyakorlatának kérdéseihez szolgáltatnak értékes forrásokat. J.P. Dessel professzor a terület régészetének és történetének elismert szaktekintélye, a Tell Tayinat-i ásatások egyik vezetője.

(Személyes megjegyzés. Feltétlenül ajánlom az előadás meghallgatását, amire én is elmennék, ha nem lennék akkor Paviában. Természetesen Salamon szentélye is érdekes, de a lényeg nem ez, hanem a régió maga, amely egy, csak nemrégiben azonosított késő-hettita állam, meglehetősen izgalmas asszociációkat keltő névvel: W/Pala/istin(i)).

2013. december 12., csütörtök

Soleb VI

N. Beaux - N. Grimal (szerk.): Soleb VI. Hommages à Michela Schiff Giorgini, BiGen 45, IFAO

A tartalomból:

L. M. Berman: Soleb and the Art of Amenhotep III

S. Bickel: Le dieu Nebmaatre de Soleb

E. Hornung: Amenhotep III as Renewer of the Sed-Festival

W. J. Murnane: Amenhotep III and Akhenaten at Soleb

 

2013. december 11., szerda

Gyorshír: megnyit az állandó kiállítás!

Ha valakinek esetleg elkerülte volna a figyelmét: 2013. december 13-tól (péntektől) újra látogatható lesz az Egyiptomi Gyűjtemény állandó kiállítása a Szépművészeti Múzeumban.

Könyvajánló (egyiptológia)

J. Debowska-Ludwin:  Early Burial Customs in Northern Egypt. Evidence from the Pre-, Proto-, and Early Dynastic Periods, Archaeopress 

Ch. Eyre, The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt. Oxford University Press

M. B. L. Hesse: Die Privatgräber von Amarna - Zum Wandel des Grabgedankens in Zeiten eines religiösen Umbruchs, Archaeopress 

C. Vandersleyen: Le Rapport d’Ounamon (vers 1065 avant Jésus-Christ). Analyse d’une mission manquée


2013. december 9., hétfő

FsKopcke

Robert B. Koehl (ed.): Amilla.The Quest for Excellence. Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday. Philadelphia, 2013

A tartalomból:

I. Perceiving Ancient Art

Dorothea Arnold: Ancient Egyptian Art: Image and Response

III. Egyptian, Anatolian, and East Mediterranean Bronze Age

Rita E. Freed: Figural Representations from the Predynastic Cemetery at Naga El-Hai and the Origins of Egyptian Style

David O'Connor: Kerma in Nubia, the Last Mystery: The Political and Social Dynamics of an Early Nilotic State

Jak Yakar: The Origins of West Anatolian Early Bronze Age

Elizabeth Simpson: An Early Anatolian Ivory Chair: The Pratt Ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

K. Aslihan Yener: A Plaster-Encased Multiple Burial at Alalakh: Cist Tomb 3017

Celia J. Bergoffen: Red Lustrous Wheelmade and Coarse-Ware Spindle Bottles from Ashkelon

IV. Iron Age Greece, Western Asia, and the Near East

Itamar Singer: "Old Country" Ethnonyms in "New Centuries" of the "Sea Peoples"

Ephraim Stern: Phoenician Clay Figurines Recovered from the Sea in the Hecht Museum Collection

Oscar White Muscarella: The Hasanlu Lovers

2013. december 8., vasárnap

Call for Papers: Politeismo

Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”
IV Incontro sulle Religioni nel Mediterraneo Antico

Politeismo
Costruzione e Percezione delle Divinità nel Mediterraneo Antico

10-11-12-13-14 giugno 2014
Velletri (Roma)

Call for Papers

Il convegno intende creare un’occasione di dibattito e confronto volta ad analizzare da un punto di vista storico-religioso ed interdisciplinare le modalità di “costruzione” culturale delle divinità nei sistemi a carattere politeistico presenti nel Mediterraneo Antico. Tenendo presente le testimonianze documentarie, sia letterarie che iconografiche, si tenterà di rispondere alle domande: cosa definisce un’entità come dio? come la si crea? quali sono le sue funzionalità? quanto la usuale definizione tipologica di “Politeismo” è atta a descrivere i sistemi ideologi nelle quali esse sono operanti?

Punti di partenza e riferimento per una riflessione condivisa saranno due studi “classici” sull’argomento: A. Brelich, Politeismo, Roma 1960 (riedito nel 2007 a cura di M. Massenzio e A. Alessandri); D. Sabbatucci, Politeismo, 2 voll., Roma 1998.

Nel dettaglio, potranno essere oggetto delle relazioni i seguenti temi:

1) Il termine e il concetto di “Politeismo” come tipologia di analisi storico-religiosa.

2) Il termine e il concetto di “divinità” come tipologia di analisi degli esseri extra-umani presenti nelle diverse civiltà.

3) I termini e i concetti ritenuti equivalenti a “divinità” nelle culture dell’area dell’antico Mediterraneo, così come nei sistemi culturali ad esso esterni per un raffronto di carattere storico-comparativo.

4) Il rapporto del Cristianesimo e più in generale delle religioni a carattere monoteistico con i sistemi religiosi usualmente definiti “politeisti”. Come il Cristianesimo ha contribuito alla nascita del concetto stesso di “politeismo” e di “religione pagana”?

5) Le modalità di comunicazione tra l’uomo e la divinità nei singoli sistemi culturali (culto, divinazione, ecc.).

6) Cosa differenzia tipologicamente e secondo parametri interni le divinità rispetto ad altri esseri extra-umani nelle specifiche culture oggetto di indagine?

7) Come si caratterizzano i luoghi di culto delle divinità o comunque i luoghi ad esse legati in rapporto alle caratteristiche del dio e alla sua sfera d’azione?

8) Le modalità rappresentative (iconografiche e letterarie) delle divinità, in relazione a come esse ne sottolineino, eventualmente anche come mezzo stesso di espressione, le caratteristiche e la sfera di azione del dio, come comunichino questi significati e quanto contribuiscano alla percezione/costruzione stessa della divinità in un rapporto di reciproca influenza.

9) Le correnti di pensiero (filosofiche, religiose, ecc.) che all’interno dei sistemi a carattere politeistico ne criticavano la concezione del divino.

10) Studio a carattere storico-comparativo dei sistemi usualmente ritenuti “politeisti” esterni all’area del Mediterraneo antico (India vedica, Germani, ecc.). Si può effettivamente parlare di “politeismi”? quali sono le loro peculiarità? quali le analogie e le differenze con le religioni del Mediterraneo antico?

11) Studio delle analogie e delle differenze dei sistemi religiosi del Mediterraneo antico usualmente definiti “politeisti”. Quali sono le peculiarità? effettivamente la nozione di “politeismo” descrive in maniera efficacia i loro tratti specifici?

12) «In Occidente non è stato un monoteismo astratto ad eliminare il “paganesimo”, bensì una determinata religione monoteista, vale a dire il Cristianesimo» (A. Brelich). Analizzare le motivazioni storiche e storico-religiose che hanno portato a questo esito.

Il convegno è strutturato in 4 aree tematiche di ricerca:

1. Egitto e culture del Vicino Oriente antico (coordinatore Paolo Xella - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico)

2. Grecia e Roma antica (coordinatore Ileana Chirassi Colombo - Università degli Studi di Trieste)

3. Primo Cristianesimo (coordinatore Emanuela Prinzivalli - Sapienza Università di Roma)

4. Area Storico-Comparativa (coordinatore Sabina Crippa - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

Segreteria organizzativa: dott. Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”)

Gli studiosi interessati a presentare un contributo possono inviare un abstract di non più di una pagina (max 2.000 battute) al dott. Igor Baglioni (igorbaglioni79 at gmail.com) entro e non oltre il giorno 1 aprile 2014.

All’abstract dovranno essere allegati: il titolo del paper; l’area prescelta; una breve nota biografica degli autori; un recapito di posta elettronica; un recapito telefonico.

L’accettazione dei papers sarà comunicata (via posta elettronica) alle persone interessate entro il 10 aprile 2014.

Entro il 20 maggio 2014 dovrà essere consegnato (sempre in via posta elettronica) il paper corredato da note e bibliografia. La consegna del paper è vincolante per la partecipazione al convegno.

Date da ricordare:
Chiusura call for papers: 1 aprile 2014.
Notifica accettazione paper: 10 aprile 2014.
Consegna paper: 20 maggio 2014.
Convegno: 10-11-12-13-14 giugno 2014.

La partecipazione al convegno è gratuita. I relatori residenti fuori la provincia di Roma saranno ospitati nelle strutture convenzionate al Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, usufruendo di una riduzione sul normale prezzo di listino.

È prevista la pubblicazione degli Atti su Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar) e su riviste scientifiche specializzate. Le relazioni da pubblicare saranno oggetto di un peer review finale.

Il convegno è strutturalmente associato all’evento “Notti Augustee” che prevede l’organizzazione di Notti Bianche nei Comuni dei Castelli Romani che patrocinano l’iniziativa (Albano Laziale, Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo, Cori, Cisterna di Latina, Genzano di Roma, Lanuvio, Lariano, Nemi, Rocca di Papa). Ogni sera i relatori potranno visitare un Comune diverso, assistere agli spettacoli previsti e partecipare gratuitamente alla visite guidate ai musei e ai monumenti del territorio. Il programma sarà reso noto contestualmente al programma del convegno.

2013. december 7., szombat

Cikkek innen-onnan

Claus Ambos - Lorenzo Verderame (eds.): Approaching Rituals in Ancient Cultures.
Rivista degli Studi Orientali 86 Supplemento 2. Pisa - Roma
  • Claus Ambos, Mesopotamische Baurituale aus dem 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Nachträge und Verbesserungen
  • Claus Ambos, Rites of passage in Ancient Mesopotamia: Changing status by moving through space: Bit rimki and the ritual of the substitute king
  • Emanuele M. Ciampini, La dinamica del rituale di Hathor nel tempio della dea a File
  • Federico Contardi, The Reception of Royal and Divine Rituals by Individuals in Egypt of the First Millennium
  • M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, The River, the Oven, the Garden: the Female Body and Fertility in a Late Babylonian Ritual Text
  • Harold M. Hays, The End of Rites of Passage and a Start with Ritual Syntax in Ancient Egypt
  • Patrick Maxime Michel, Ritual in Emar
  • Davide Nadali, When Ritual Meets Art. Rituals in the Visual Arts versus the Visual Arts in Rituals: The Case of Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Andreas H. Pries, On the use of a grammar of rituals. Reflections from an Egyptologist’s point of view
  • Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel, Noise, Light and Smoke: the Sensory Dimension in Akkadian Rituals. A General Overview
  • Giulia Torri, Susanne Görke, Hittite Building Rituals. Interaction between their Ideological Function and Find Spots
  • Lorenzo Verderame, Means of substitution. The use of figurines, animals, and human beings as substitutes in Assyrian rituals


Luiselli, Maria Michela – Mohn, Jürgen – Gripentrog, Stephanie (eds.) Kult und Bild: Die bildliche Dimension des Kultes im Alten Orient, in der Antike und in der Neuzeit. Diskurs Religion 1. Ergon Verlag
  • Maria Michela Luiselli: Images of Personal Religion in Ancient Egypt: An Outline
  • Susanne Bickel: Altägyptische Schöpfungsvorstellungen im Kult: Mythos, Text und Bild

2013. december 6., péntek

Talanta 44 (2012)

Tematikus szám: Recent Research and the Perspectives on the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

A tartalomból:

Papadopoulos, Angelos, Introduction: Current Research and Perspectives on the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Doumas, Christos, The Impact of the Sea on the Greek Language

Yasur-Landau, Assaf, The ‘Feathered Helmets’ of the Sea Peoples: Joining the Iconographic and Archaeological Evidence

Kelder, Jorrit, Ahhiyawa and the World of the Great Kings: A Re-evaluation of Mycenaean Political Structures

Georgakopoulos, Kostas, Minoan-Anatolian relations and the Ahhiyawa question: A re-assessment of the evidence

Kolotourou, Katherina, Musico-cultural amalgamations in the Eastern Mediterranean: A percussive view from the Aegean

Molloy, Barry, The Origins of Plate Armour in the Aegean and Europe

Shaw, Ian, The archaeology of refuse disposal in New Kingdom Egypt: Patterns of production and consumption at el-Amarna

2013. december 5., csütörtök

Az ókori Egyiptom szobrászata (előadássorozat)

A Pesti Bölcsész Akadémián egy egyiptomi tematikájún, négyrészes előadássorozatra is sor kerül:

I. 2013. december 4., szerda (18.00)
Bevezetés – az egyiptomi szobrászat jellemzői 

II. 2013. december 11., szerda (18.00)
Az Ó- és Középbirodalom szobrászata

III. 2014. január 8., szerda (18.00)
Egyiptom szobrászata az Újbirodalomtól a Későkorig

IV. 2014. január 15., szerda (18.00)
A női bronzplasztika szerepe a templomi kultuszban a 22-26. dinasztiák időszakában

Az előadó Fullér Andrea. A kurzus részletes leírása itt érhető el. 

2013. december 4., szerda

Wonderful things

Az oxfordi Griffith Institute 2014-ben fennállásának 75. évfordulóját fogja ünnepelni. Az intézet újonnan indult blogján a különféle, a jubileumi évben megszervezendő rendezvényekhez (többek között a Discovering Tutankhamun c. kiállításhoz) kapcsolódva különféle érdekességeket terveznek megosztani. Az egyik legelső bejegyzésben például Lord Carnarvon levele olvasható, amiben beszámol Gardinernek a Tutanhamon sír felfedezéséről.

2013. december 3., kedd

Cikkek innen-onnan

Földi Zsombor: Gleanings from the Antiquities Market: A Contribution to the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions. CDLB 2013:3.

Jacob Klein: The Mesopotamian Hero and His Mother. In: Maxine L. Grossman (ed.): Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding: Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin. Bethesda

Birgit Christiansen, Ulrich Thaler (Hg.): Ansehenssache. Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums. Utz Verlag
  • Niek Veldhuis: Prestige: Divergent Receptions of Babylonian Scholarship.  Cuneiform Lexical Texts in the Late Bronze Age
  • Nicola Laneri: Understanding the Living. Socio-Economic Dynamics of  Funerary Practices in Southern Mesopotamia During the  Early Dynastic Period
  • Janne Arp: Probleme und Möglichkeiten der sozialen Interpretation von  altägyptischen Residenznekropolen

2013. december 2., hétfő

Hettita konferencia: fontos információk

1. Már elérhető a jelentkezési lap a konferencia honlapján.

2. Megváltozott a konferencia időpontja! Az új időpont: szeptember 1.-7.

Minden további részletért ld. a konferencia honlapját.

2013. december 1., vasárnap

Novemberi könyvajánló

Amanda H. Podany: The Ancient Near East. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford

Isaac Kalimi - Seth Richardson (eds.): Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem StoryHistory and Historiography. CHANE 71. Leiden

Vitali Bartash: Miscellaneous Early Dynastic and Sargonic Texts in the Cornell University CollectionsCornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 23. Bethesda

Ernst Axel Knauf: Data and Debates. Essays in the History and Culture of Israel and Its Neighbors in Antiquity. Daten und Debatten. Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte des antiken Israel und seiner Nachbarn. AOAT 407. Münster

Shawn W. Flynn: YHWH is KingThe Development of Divine Kingship in Ancient Israel.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements 159. Leiden

W. Zwickel - R. Egger-Wenzel - M. Ernst (eds.): Herders Neuer Bibelatlas. Herder

Michael B. Hundley: Gods in Dwellings: Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East. Atlanta

Andrew R. Davis: Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context. Atlanta

Johannes Brehm: Generationenbeziehungen in den Historien HerodotsClassica et Orientalia 8. Heidelberg

David Kertai - Peter A. Miglus (eds.): New Research on Late Assyrian Palaces. Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 15. Heidelberg

Benjamin W. Porter: Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan. Los Angeles

John Van Seters: The Yahwist: A Historian of Israelite Origins. Winona Lake

JoAnn Scurlock - Richard H. Beal (eds.): Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis. Winona Lake

T.J. Wilkinson - McGuire Gibson - Magnus Widell (eds.): Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizationsBAR S2552. Oxford

Stefan Zawadzki: Garments of the Gods 2. Texts. OBO 260. Fribourg - Göttingen