The archaeological, philological and historic-systematical contributions in this volume are concerned with the cultural history of Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC; the focus is on questions of historical geography. The case studies analyse typical spatial structures such as the Khabur region as an area for settlement and for traffic. The contributions also take up the problems connected with the various sources, their kinds of information and the conditions accompanying the methodical access. It becomes obvious that, beyond questions of localisation and identification, historical geography must aim at a description of space as the primary condition of culture - making use of textual sources, archaeological findings and, more than ever, taking into account the possibilities of the reconstruction of environment and landscape.

Entre les fleuves--I: Untersuchungen zur historischen Geographie Obermesopotamiens im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Berliner Beitrage Zum Vorderen Orient) (German Edition)

History

Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva

Ancient Civilizations

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Edfu: Neue Graffiti Und Ritualszenen Des Tempels Von Edfu. (Die Inschriften Des Tempels Von Edfu, Abteilung II Dokumentationen) (German Edition)

Twelve articles by Dagmar Budde, Andreas Effland, Martin von Falck, Jan-Peter Graeff, Susanne Martinssen-von Falck and Wolfgang Waitkus.

Edfu: Materialien Und Studien (Die Inschriften Des Tempels Von Edfu) (German Edition)

The topic of this work is the treatment of unburnt and burnt clay tablets. As practical case studies six cuneiform tablets were chosen that show typical damages to be found in museum collections. For a better understanding of the problems concerning such objects, the characteristics of clay as material are illustrted, especially those of calcareous clays. Important restoration measures are discussed, as for example the secondary burning of tablets in preparation of the subsequent reduction of salt.

Methoden Zur Restaurierung Von Ungebrannten Und Gebrannten Keilschrifttafeln: Gestern Und Heute. (Berliner Beitrage Zum Vorderen Orient) (German Edition)

Gutschow, Carmen

Ancient writing systems employ logographic and logophonetic principles playing on the relationship between writing, script and scribal learning. The workshop proceedings published in this volume explore the way these relationships encode knowledge and meaning reflected in the social, historical and cultural mentality of the early peoples of East Asia (China and Japan), Anatolia, the Aegean, Egypt and Mesoamerica. The meeting was organized in the FU Berlin on the fall of 2010 by the editor and Dr. Renata Landgrafova (now Charles University, Prague) in the frame of the DFG research training group 1458 "Notational Iconicity" ("Schriftbildlichkeit") headed by Prof. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Prof. Sybille Kramer. The premise of our meeting was that script and the organization of texts can reveal how knowledge is transformed and transmitted among different social groups across time and space, and eventually standardized as written tradition. Its multidisciplinary approach follows recent trends in the attempt to arouse debate between scholars of disparate systems of writing - be it Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic or Linear in nature - and to discuss their elements independent of origin or cultural context. A broad perspective on ancient writing and its visual elements was established with the contributions delving into the aspects of generating knowledge and meaning (J. Janak, M. Weeden), categorizing knowledge (E. Boot, T. W. Kwan, H. Tomas), diffusion and transformation of knowledge (Sh. Gordin, R. Landgrafova) and rationalizing knowledge (E. Birk).

Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems (Berliner Beitrage Zum Vorderen Orient)

Der Verborgene Konigsmythos Von Edfu: Wiederentdeckung Eines Konzeptes Dreidimensionaler Literatur Y Andre Block (Aegyptiaca Hamburgensia) (German Edition)

Block, Andre

Religion & Spirituality

The contributions gathered in this volume are the result of the German-French research project HIGEOMES - "The historical geography of Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC: Interdisciplinary research" (ANR/DFG). The first part, "From Aur to Mari," covers the Sinjar, Khabur and Taurus regions, that is, the north of Upper Mesopotamia. The focus lies on spatial phenomena of political structures in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, based on written sources or archaeological findings (contributions by D. Charpin, M. Guichard, A. Jacquet, C. Nicolle, J.-M. Durand &amp; N. Ziegler). The second part, "Beyond Upper Mesopotamia," considers regions at the borders or even outside of Upper Mesopotamia proper. The city of Akkade remains a point of reference, also in the second millennium. With regard to the ongoing discussion about the localization of the city of Akkade it seemed to make sense to bring the state of research concerning the written sources of the third to the first millennia up to date (contributions by W. Sommerfeld, N. Ziegler, S. Paulus, W. Pethe, L. Marti and R. Pirngruber). The two texts from Tell Sakka are here edited for the first time and analysed as to their importance for a reconstruction of Suppiluliuma I's military campaigns (contributions by F. Abdallah &amp; J.-M. Durand, B. Alexandrov). The third part, "Toponymy and concept of space," consists of essays by I. Arkhipov, E. Cancik-Kirschbaum and N. Ziegler. They treat questions of newly attributed place-names and of the linguistic grasp of large areas and of central structures in Old Babylonian and Middle Assyrian times (libbi matim / libbi mati resp. libbi ali).

Entre les Fleuves - II: D'assur a Mari Et Au-dela (Berliner Beitrage Zum Vorderen Orient) (French Edition)

The volume offers translations, transcriptions and philological commentaries of the texts written on the inner face of the enclosure wall of the temple of Edfu. The texts are among the most interesting of the temple texts. They treat, for example, the complex of the myth of Horus, the creation myths, the description of the original temple of Edfu, or the selection and enthronement of the living falcon of Edfu. In addition, the volume contains four short appendices with special studies and supplements to the translations as well as 29 pages of additions and corrections with regard to the hieroglyphic text edited by E. Chassinat, Le temple d'Edfou VI.

Edfou VI: Die Inschriften Des Tempels Von Edfu (Die Inschriften Des Tempels Von Edfu, Abteilung II Dokumenta) (German Edition)

Die Kulttopographische Inschrift am Sanktuar des Tempels Von Edfu (Die Inschriften Des Tempels Von Edfu) (German Edition)

Waitkus, Wolfgang

This volume contains the contributions to the workshop Materialitat des Schreibprozesses [Materiality of the Writing Process], held at the Institut fur Altorientalistik [Ancient Near Eastern Languages and History] in Berlin on April 29, 2013. The articles treat the production, inscription and conventions of written documents as well as their utilization, storage and socio-cultural contexts. Various aspects of materiality and possibilities of their investigation are covered in an exemplary way. With contributions by: A. Bartelmus; D. Charpin; A. Fugert &amp; J. Rohde; J. Marzahn; A. Richardson, U. Smilansky &amp; J. Marzahn; J. Taylo.

Keilschriftartefakte - Untersuchungen zur Materialitat von Keilschriftdokumenten (Berliner Beitrage Zum Vorderen Orient) (Berliner Beitrage zum ... 25) (English, French and German Edition)

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