Talugaes Wittes: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Kasion) (English, German and Italian Edition)

Thirty-four studies are devoted to the Ancient Near Eastern scholar Stefano de Martino. In accordance with his own research area studies on Ancient Anatolia and North-Syria as well as on Hittite and Akkadian texts are in the focus of the festschrift. Newly discovered texts and archaeological finds are presented, and new aspects of well-known literary compositions and excavation sites of the region are taken into consideration. Further studies focus on history and geography of the north-western part of the Ancient Near East. Indice 9 Prefazione 13 Pubblicazioni di Stefano de Martino 17 Alaura: La vera storia di un clamoroso falso ittita di fine Ottocento 29 Alparslan / Dogan-Alparslan: Ein neues Tontafelfragment aus Boğazköy. Boğazkale 1-1-2018 51 Archi: Personal Names of Proto-Anatolian Indo-European-Speaking Populations East of the Euphrates (24th Cent. BC) 55 Buccellati: “Awīliš īwē”. L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città 65 Cellerino: Il sigillo a cilindro IM 115642 dalla Tomba Reale III a Nimrud. Una raffigurazione enigmatica 79 Cohen / Anor: Forging an Empire. The Borders of Carchemish. According to CTH 50 (KUB 19.27) 99 d'Alfonso: Reorganization vs. Resilience in Early Iron Age. Monumental Art of Central Anatolia 109 Dincol / Peker: Sealings from Renewed Excavations at Alalakh 131 Dolce: Visual Communication and the Audience. An Observation Point on Mesopotamia 137 Fales: The Rural Hinterland of Assyrian Cities. Clusters of Toponyms 149 Forlanini: Il contesto storico delle istruzioni “umanitarie” hittite e l’“invasione” dei caschei (Kaška) 169 Francia: The Name of Babylon in Hittite Texts 203 Freydank / Prechel: Nochmals zum Brief des Labarna an Tunija von Tikunani 221 Gilan: “She did not call me father, so I will not call her my daughter!” The Episode of the “Daughter” in CTH 6 and Its Historical Significance 231 Giusfredi: On the Old Assyrian tuzzinnum 243 Kaynar: KUB 32.121: il quinto frammento del rituale di Šalašu? 253 Kelly-Buccellati: The Urkesh Mittani Horizon: Ceramic Evidence 265 Klinger: Nochmals zur Schreibung der Konjunktion maḫḫan und ihrer Geschichte 285 Lippo lis / Menegazzi: From Turin to Karakorum. Archaeology for the Public through Asia 303 Loreto: Sulle origini del commercio carovaniero tra la Penisola Arabica e il Vicino Oriente antico 315 Marazzi: PORTA, PORTA2 und „Hofeingang“ in den Hieroglypheninschriften des 2. Jts. v. Chr. 329 Matthiae: On the Historical Events of the Hurro-Hittite “Song of Release” 345 Messina: A Statue of the mušḫuššu of Marduk at Babylon? 359 Miller: Two Notes on Kizzuwatna’s Status as a Hittite Vassal in the Middle Hittite Period 373 Mora: Cylinder Seals as a Status Symbol in Hittite Anatolia 379 Pinnock: Far nascere una statua, uccidere una statua. Ebla e gli Ittiti (?) nel periodo paleosiriano 389 Ponchia: Essere senza un padre. Una nota su Gilgamesh 405 Rollinger: Some Considerations on Empire and Mental Mapping. Conceptualizing the Ends of the World in the First Millennium BCE 411 Schachner: The Power of Geography. Criteria for Selecting the Location of Hattuša, the Capital City of the Hittite Empire 427 Süel: A Mould from Ortaköy/Šapinuwa 449 Torri: Potters and Pottery in Hittite Society, According to Written Sources 461 Ricciardi / Foietta: Cinture di sovrani, nobili e cavalieri nella statuaria di H atra 481 Weeden: Hurrian in a Tablet from Tigunānum 497 Wilhelm: Allaituraḫe 517 Vierunddreißig Studien sind dem Altorientalisten Stefano de Martino gewidmet. Entsprechend seinem Forschungsgebiet bilden Studien zu den Bereichen Alt-Anatolien und Nord-Syrien sowie zu hethitischen und akkadischen Texten einen Schwerpunkt der Festschrift. Neue Texte und neue archäologische Funde werden ebenso vorgestellt wie neue Aspekte bekannter Werke und Ausgrabungsstätten der Region. In den Fokus gerückt werden auch übergreifende Fragen zur Geschichte und Geographie des nordwestlichen Alten Orients.