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This volume represents the first in a series on the results of the French-German research project... more This volume represents the first in a series on the results of the French-German research projects HiGeoMes/TexTelSem. The first volume focuses on the western half of the Middle Assyrian empire between the Euphrates and Tigris as a core area of Assyrian settlement and expansion. It provide an up-to-date reference work for ca. 400 individual toponyms from published and unpublished sources and lays the groundwork for a study of the historical geography of Upper Mesopotamia in second millennium BC.
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Edited Books by Christian W Hess
Archaeopress, Oxford. Free dowload at: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803270944, 2021
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Die keilschriftliche Überlieferung des Alten Orients im Zeitraum vom 3. Jahrtausend v.Chr. bis zu... more Die keilschriftliche Überlieferung des Alten Orients im Zeitraum vom 3. Jahrtausend v.Chr. bis zur Zeitenwende bietet die früheste Evidenz für eine Tradition der Versepik überhaupt, zu der auch solche bekannten Werke der Weltliteratur wie das Gilgamesch-Epos zählen. Die dichterischen Erzählwerke dieses Zeitraums entstammen dabei einer vielzahl miteinander verbundener Kultur- und Sprachtraditionen. Das Kapitel bietet zuerst einen historischen Abriss der sumerischen, akkadischen, hethitischen und ugaritischen Versepik. Zusammenfassend und vergleichend werden anschließend die externen Gegebenheiten der Überlieferung, u.a. die Rolle der Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit in der Gestaltung der Überlieferung, formale Gesichtspunkte sowie einige problemgeschichtliche Aspekte dieser Traditionen hervorgehoben.
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Die Zitadelle von Dūr-Katlimmu in mittel- und neuassyrischer Zeit, ed. H. Kühne (BATSH 12; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021), 2021
Though the importance of toponomastic studies for the reconstruction of historical geographies ha... more Though the importance of toponomastic studies for the reconstruction of historical geographies has long been recognized, detailed analysis of Ancient Near Eastern toponyms remains rare. In light of both the importance of the settlement Duara for the history of Middle Assyrian Dūr-Katlimmu and the persistent problem of the town’s location, this short excursus argues for a likely interpretation of the name as Semitic *Duwāra against the background of similar toponyms in other Semitic languages.
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History of the Akkadian Language, HdO 152 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 2021
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A. Sollee (ed.), Formation, Organisation and Development of Iron Age Societies: A Comparative View, OREA 15 (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2020), 2020
Texts derived from excavations at Sātu Qaḽā, the Assyrian Idu, in Iraqi Kurdistan, attest to a lo... more Texts derived from excavations at Sātu Qaḽā, the Assyrian Idu, in Iraqi Kurdistan, attest to a local kingdom preceding the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Though the fragmentary and formulaic inscriptions so far provide some of the best evidence for the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the Eastern Tigris, their precise dating and thus their relevance to the transition is partly based on internal criteria. The following article will review the palaeography and language of the inscriptions as both criteria for dating and as a reflection of the role of institutional predecessors in shaping the transition at the site. (All publication and film rights signed away to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but .pdf gladly upon request)
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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, 2020
The attached file is the pre-print version of the chapter “Standard Babylonian.” In A Companion t... more The attached file is the pre-print version of the chapter “Standard Babylonian.” In A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, ed. R. Hasselbach (Hoboken: Wiley, 2020), 473–488.
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Mapping Ancient Identities, 2018
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Anatolica 39, 2013
This article presents the first results of excavations at Tell Satu Qala, ancient Idu, in the Kur... more This article presents the first results of excavations at Tell Satu Qala, ancient Idu, in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. It gives an account of the two excavation seasons that have taken place in 2010 and 2011. The preparations that led to the excavation, the reasons for selecting this tell, and people instrumental in starting this project are mentioned in sections 1-2. In the next section the archaeological evidence is discussed, both the squares on the north side of the tell and the cross-section made on the southern slope (3). This is followed by an overview of the inscriptions from Satu Qala, on finds from the present excavation as well as museum objects (section 4). The material is arranged chronologically, and an image of every inscription is added. The article is concluded by two sections on the history of Idu, the first treating the interval between the Middle Assyrian and the Neo-Assyrian empires (5), and the second presenting the historical evidence for the Old Babylonian period (6).
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The paper adresses a series of verbs in Akkadian in which core arguments are prepositionally mark... more The paper adresses a series of verbs in Akkadian in which core arguments are prepositionally marked, focussing on experiencer subjects. I argue that this aberrant marking is semantically motivated and typologically expected.
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Keywords: ancient Near East history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religio... more Keywords: ancient Near East history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religion; religious history
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Keywords: ancient Near East history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religio... more Keywords: ancient Near East history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religion; religious history
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Keywords: ancient near east history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religio... more Keywords: ancient near east history; cultural history; folkore and mythology; literature; religious history
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Journal of the American Oriental Society 139/3, 2019
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The 6th Conference of Broadening Horizons took place at the Freie Universität in Berlin from the 24th to the 28th of June 2019, hosted by the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies.