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Current Research in Cuneiform Palaeography 2. Proceedings of the Workshop organised at the 64ᵗʰ Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck 2018. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 2019
The present volume collects the papers presented at the second workshop devoted to „Current Resea... more The present volume collects the papers presented at the second workshop devoted to „Current Research in Cuneiform Palaeography“ and brings new insights to a field of cuneiform studies that during the last decade had been witnessing ever growing attention among scholars. The contributions provide a wide perspective on the topic by investigating text corpora that date from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE and derive from the whole Ancient Near East (from southern Mesopotamia, to Anatolia, Syria and the northern Levant).
With contributions by A. Bramanti, S. Fischer, G. Müller, J. Mynářová, R. Pirngruber, M. Touillon-Ricci, K. Wagensonner und L. Warbinek
Zaphon 2, 2020
talugaeš witteš. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of ... more talugaeš witteš. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Edited by Michele Cammarosano, Elena Devecchi and Maurizio Viano.
Kasion 2. © 2020, Zaphon, Münster. ISBN 978-3-96327-110-6 (Buch) / ISBN 978-3-96327-111-3 (E-Book)
Papers by Elena Devecchi
Scienze dell’Antichità 29.3, 2023
ArCOA – Archivi e Collezioni dell’Oriente Antico is a project launched by the University of Milan... more ArCOA – Archivi e Collezioni dell’Oriente Antico is a project launched by the University of Milan and by the Institute of Heritage Science of the CNR, having the University of Turin as a research partner. It aims at studying, communicating and promoting the collections of ancient Near Eastern artefacts hosted in the Italian institutions. In the paper an overview of the activities carried on by the ArCOA team is presented, illustrating the digital archive and the others dedicated digital tools, the survey of the collections, and the future developments. The ArCOA potential for supporting the study and enhancing the knowledge of the Near Eastern collections in Italy is illustrated through case study of archival records pertaining the acquisition history of objects in the Museo di Antichità di Torino.
Scienze dell’Antichità 29.3, 2023
The surviving archival records from Kassite Babylonia (14th-13th centuries BC) offer a glimpse in... more The surviving archival records from Kassite Babylonia (14th-13th centuries BC) offer a glimpse into the complex network of interactions resulting from the activities managed by the main economic and administrative institutions. Thousands of people appear in the documents, although in most cases we only know their names – rarely their patronymic and/or profession. The project presented in this paper aims at carrying out a prosopographical study in order to define the actors’ “functional” and “behavioral” profiles on the basis of the contexts in which they were active and the interactions they had with each other. To this aim, a prosopographical database has been designed to collect, organize, and query the prosopographical data and extract significant knowledge through data visualization and statistical analyses.
Mesopotamia 58, 2023
Cuneiform tablets from Kassite Babylonia record the names of thousands of individuals who interac... more Cuneiform tablets from Kassite Babylonia record the names of thousands of individuals who interacted at different levels with the institutions that produced these texts. A useful criterion to recognize, among them, those who had an active role in the resource management is looking for personal names that follow the term “hand” (Akk. qātum), which in this context signifies authority and control over goods and individuals. The paper offers a detailed study of the data about Mudammiq-Adad, a scribe whose “hand” played a significant role in the administrative system recorded by the texts from Dūr-Enlilē. By analyzing his activities and interactions with other individuals, this study sheds light on a network of closely interacting agents, offers new insights into the role of scribes within the administration and highlights the collaborative rather than hierarchical nature of their participation in the operational dynamics of the economic organization they worked for.
S. de Martino (ed.), Handbook Hittite Empire, 2022
The present chapter aims at highlighting the strategies and mechanisms
of governance that the Hit... more The present chapter aims at highlighting the strategies and mechanisms
of governance that the Hittite empire employed at the acme of its territorial expansion and in the best-documented phase of its history, i.e., from the middle of the fourteenth until the end of the thirteenth century BCE, in order to successfully rule and maintain control over a vast and varied territory that encompassed most of Western, Central, and Southern Anatolia and extended eastward just beyond the course of the Euphrates, embracing the Northern Levant and parts of Upper Mesopotamia. The impact, nature, and extent of Hatti’s rule will be analyzed mainly on the basis of the textual evidence, in particular with regard to the empire’s influence on the political, military, and economic organization of the subordinated countries.
N. Borrelli (ed.), Ana šulmāni. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Simonetta Graziani, 2022
Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties, 2020
Agriculture represents the basis of the entire Mesopotamian economy, and Kassite Babylonia makes ... more Agriculture represents the basis of the entire Mesopotamian economy, and Kassite Babylonia makes no exception to this rule. However, in spite of the centrality of this subject for the reconstruction of ancient Near Eastern economic and social history, the mechanisms developed by the central administration in order to control and exploit the production of agricultural goods during the Kassite period have been largely neglected in Ancient Near Eastern Studies.1 This research gap cannot be ascribed to the lack of sources. In fact, several documents from Nippur recording the collection of agricultural revenues, their storage and their disbursement for various purposes have been known since the very first publications of the epigraphic material recovered during the archaeological campaigns conducted at the site. A number of these texts have been discussed by Torczyner in his investigation of the administrative activities recorded in the Nippur texts,2 which remains a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Middle Babylonian accounting techniques and of the economic 1 Note the absence of the Kassite period from general studies on Mesopotamian economic history (e.g., Yoffee 1995; Hudson and Wunsch 2004; D'Agostino 2013), from specialized publications such as the volumes of the Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture (the only exception being an article on irrigation in Kassite Babylonia, see van Soldt 1988), and also from investigations of specific topics, like in the case of the entry "tax" ("Steuer") in the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, where the taxation systems of all other periods are discussed (RlA 13: 161-77). 2 Torczyner 1913; the author used only texts published in BE 14 (Clay 1906a) and BE 15 (Clay 1906b). Elena Devecchi, Torino Note: This research was carried out as part of the project "Nach der Ernte: Die Verwaltung landwirtschaftlicher Produkte im kassitenzeitlichen Babylonien" supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Project no. 278641349). I would like to thank Walther Sallaberger for having discussed with me the topic of this paper and having commented upon earlier drafts of it; I am also indebted to the editors of this volume and to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. 3 Ellis 1976: 109-32, 148-66; Ellis included also other administrative documents from Nippur appeared in PBS 2/2 (Clay 1912), as well as letters published in BE 17 (Radau 1908) and PBS 1/2 (Lutz 1919). 4 See especially Petschow 1974 and Sassmannshausen 2001. 8 Formally, tēlītu is a taPRīSt-form, i.e. a nomen actionis usually associated with the D stem, even though GAG §56 l notes that taPRīSt-nouns can be occasionally derived from the G stem. Indeed, AHw regards tēlītu as a form deriving from elû G, not from elû D as one would expect (AHw: 1345 s.v. tēlītu). 9 A seemingly different use of tēlītu is attested in still unpublished rosters from Nippur which record the results of inspections of groups of workers, such as those referred to by Tenney 2011: 16-17. These texts have not been considered for this study, which will focus on tēlītu only in the context of collection and redistribution of agricultural products.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 79, 305-322, 2020
in M. Vallerani (ed.), Valore delle cose e valore delle persone. Dall’Antichità all’Età moderna. Roma, 2018
Questo volume è stato realizzato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Studi storici dell'Univers... more Questo volume è stato realizzato con il contributo del Dipartimento di Studi storici dell'Università degli Studi di Torino, fondi ricerca locale (RILO) 2016 e 2017. viella libreria editrice via delle Alpi, 32 I-00198 ROMA tel. 06 84 17 758 fax 06 85 35 39 60 www.viella.it
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Books by Elena Devecchi
Edited Books by Elena Devecchi
With contributions by A. Bramanti, S. Fischer, G. Müller, J. Mynářová, R. Pirngruber, M. Touillon-Ricci, K. Wagensonner und L. Warbinek
Kasion 2. © 2020, Zaphon, Münster. ISBN 978-3-96327-110-6 (Buch) / ISBN 978-3-96327-111-3 (E-Book)
Papers by Elena Devecchi
of governance that the Hittite empire employed at the acme of its territorial expansion and in the best-documented phase of its history, i.e., from the middle of the fourteenth until the end of the thirteenth century BCE, in order to successfully rule and maintain control over a vast and varied territory that encompassed most of Western, Central, and Southern Anatolia and extended eastward just beyond the course of the Euphrates, embracing the Northern Levant and parts of Upper Mesopotamia. The impact, nature, and extent of Hatti’s rule will be analyzed mainly on the basis of the textual evidence, in particular with regard to the empire’s influence on the political, military, and economic organization of the subordinated countries.
With contributions by A. Bramanti, S. Fischer, G. Müller, J. Mynářová, R. Pirngruber, M. Touillon-Ricci, K. Wagensonner und L. Warbinek
Kasion 2. © 2020, Zaphon, Münster. ISBN 978-3-96327-110-6 (Buch) / ISBN 978-3-96327-111-3 (E-Book)
of governance that the Hittite empire employed at the acme of its territorial expansion and in the best-documented phase of its history, i.e., from the middle of the fourteenth until the end of the thirteenth century BCE, in order to successfully rule and maintain control over a vast and varied territory that encompassed most of Western, Central, and Southern Anatolia and extended eastward just beyond the course of the Euphrates, embracing the Northern Levant and parts of Upper Mesopotamia. The impact, nature, and extent of Hatti’s rule will be analyzed mainly on the basis of the textual evidence, in particular with regard to the empire’s influence on the political, military, and economic organization of the subordinated countries.
In der Erforschung religionsgeschichtlicher Beziehungen zwischen der altorientalischen und biblischen Überlieferung nimmt der Vergleich zwischen der altorientalischen Vertragstradition und der biblischen Bundeskonzeption einen zentralen Stellenwert ein. Obwohl die hethitischen Vasallenverträge und die ihnen strukturell und funktional ähnlichen innenpolitischen Dokumente die alttestamentliche Bundestheologie offenbar nicht unmittelbar geprägt haben, sind sie für die Erforschung der altorientalischen Vertragstradition und das Verständnis der Bundeskonzeption weiterhin von hoher Relevanz. Neben einem Überblick über die hethitische Textüberlieferung und deren wesentliche Charakteristika sowie einem forschungsgeschichtlichen Abriss widmet sich der Beitrag vor allem der theologischen Bedeutung, die mit dem Abschluss eines Staatsvertrags und dem dabei geleisteten Eid verbunden war. Das dadurch erzielte bessere Verständnis des hethitischen Vertragskonzeptes eröffnet auch neue Einsichten in die Entstehung der alttestamentlichen Bundestheologie.
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