Melammu Symposia
The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West
Schools of Oriental Studies and the Development of Modern Historiography
Proceedings of the Symposium held in Ravenna, Italy, October 13-17, 2001
edited by Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras
Università di Bologna & Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e
l'Oriente (IsIAO), Milano 2004
Contents
- FOREWORD – Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras v
- Symposium Program viii
- List of Participants xi
- G. P. BASELLO, Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies 1
- W. BURKERT, Gyges to Croesus:
Historiography between Herodotus and Cuneiform 41
- A. CARILE, Political Thought in Byzantium as Seen by 20th Century Historians 53
- E. CAVALLINI, From Mazzarino until Today:
Italian Studies between East and West 87
- S. M. CHIODI, Eracle tra Oriente e Occidente 93
- S. DE MEIS, A Modern Approach to Assyrian-Babylonian Astronomy 117
- R. N. FRYE, Truth and Lies in Ancient Iranian History 129
- A. GARIBOLDI, Monete dell’Iran preislamico dal Medagliere del Museo Civico
Archeologico di Bologna: catalogo e considerazioni in margine 133
- K. KARTTUNEN, Expansion of Oriental Studies in the Early 19th Century 161
- B. A. LEVINE, The Jewish Ketūbbāh as a ‘Dialogue Document’:
The Continuity of a Cuneiform Tradition 169
- E. Y. ODISHO, Assyrian (Aramaic):
A Recent Model for its Maintenance and Revitalization 183
- P. OGNIBENE, The Ossetic Studies in 17th and 18th Centuries:
from the Travel Notes to the First Ossetic Grammars 197
- A. PANAINO, Trends and Problems concerning the Mutual Relations
between Iranian Pre-Islamic and Jewish Cultures 209
- S. PARPOLA, Back to Delitzsch and Jeremias:
The Relevance of the Pan-Babylonian School to the MELAMMU Project 237
- A. PIRAS, Mesopotamian Sacred Marriage and Pre-Islamic Iran 249
- M. VIDALE, Growing in a Foreign World: For a History of the “Meluhha Villages”
in Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium BC 261
- J. G. WESTENHOLZ, The Good Shepherd 281
- A. ANNUS, S. PARPOLA & R. M. WHITING, The MELAMMU Database 311
- Addresses of the Contributors 313
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Melammu Symposia
- Aro, Sanna / R.M. Whiting, eds. (2000) The Heirs of Assyria (Melammu Symposia 1), Helsinki.
- Whiting, R.M., ed. (2001) Myths and Mythologies (Melammu Symposia 2), Helsinki.
- Panaino, Antonio C.D. / Giovanni Pettinato, eds. (2002) Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena. Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Chicago, USA, October 27-31, 2000 (Melammu Symposia 3), Milano.
- Panaino, Antonio C.D. / Andrea Piras, eds. (2004) Schools of Oriental Studies and the Development of Modern Historiography. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Ravenna, Italy, October 13-17, 2001 (Melammu Symposia 4), Milano.
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