Pearls of the Past. Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honour of Frances Pinnock
Edited by Marta D’Andrea, Maria Gabriella Micale, Davide Nadali, Sara Pizzimenti and Agnese Vacca
marru 8
2019
ISBN 978-3-96327-058-1
xxii + 916 pp. / 17 x 24 cm / hardcover, thread stitching
book + e-book (ISBN 978-3-96327-059-8): 180,00 €, on request
Almost four dozen articles are devoted to the Near Eastern Archaeologist Frances Pinnock (La Sapienza, Roma). In accordance with her special field of research several focus on the archaeology of and excavations in ancient Syria, especially Ebla / Tell Mardikh. Further contributions also explore and discuss excavations, objects, and questions of cultural history of Anatolia, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine (Jericho), and Mesopotamia.
List of Publications by Frances Pinnock
Foreword
Mohammed Alkhalid: Kingship and the Representation of Power in the Urban Pattern of Ebla during the Middle Bronze Age
Michel Al-Maqdissi: Notes d’Archéologie Levantine XLIX : Matériel funéraire de la région de Tell Afis dans un document des archives de R. du Mesnil du Buisson
Francesca Baffi: The Impact of the Great Empires on Inner Syria
Giacomo Benati: Shaping Social Dynamics in Early 3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Solid-Footed Goblets and the Politics of Drinking
Marco Bonechi: A Hagia Triada Whodunnit: On the Inscribed Cylinder Seal Florence Museum 85079 Again
Pascal Butterlin: Mari et l’histoire militaire mésopotamienne : du temps long au temps politico-militaire
Eloisa Casadei: Storage Practices and Temple Economy during the 3rd Millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia
Corinne Castel: Deux empreintes de sceaux-cylindres sur céramique du Bronze ancien IVB à Tell Al-Rawda : l’usage local d’une pratique sigillaire en Syrie intérieure
Manuel Castelluccia / Roberto Dan: Some Remarks on Urartian Horse Harnesses
Joaquín María Córdoba: Arqueología de la agricultura. Adaptaciones a medios áridos durante la Edad del Hierro. Notas rápidas sobre dos recientes y singulares hallazgos
Harriet Crawford: The Changing Position of Women in Mesopotamia from the Mid-Third to the Later Second Millennium BC
Paola D’Amore: Paraphernalia from Tell Afis: The Cult Stands
Marta D’Andrea: The EB–MB Transition at Ebla: A State-of-the-Art Overview in the Light of the 2004–2008 Discoveries at Tell Mardikh
Silvana Di Paolo: Bodily Violence in Early Old Babylonian Glyptics: A Performative Act?
Maria Forza: Generated Change and Spontaneous Change: Parallels between the Development of Cremation and the Diffusion of Groovy Pottery in the Upper Tigris Valley during Iron Ages I and II
Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The Archaeology of Women and Women in Archaeology in the Ancient Near East
May Haider: Empty Vessels or Laden Signifiers? Imported Greek Pottery in Levantine Social Practice
Arnulf Hausleiter: Cultural Contacts, Transfer of Images and Ideas: On 1st Millennium BC Funerary Stelae from Taymāʾ
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati: Images of Work in Urkesh
Melissa A. Kennedy: A New EB IV Cultural Province in Central and Southern Syria: The View from Tell Nebi Mend
Hartmut Kühne: Mittani and Middle Assyrian Stamp Seals
Ahmed Fatima Kzzo: Another Semeion? New Perspectives on an Old Syrian Seals Group
Nicola Laneri: What a Woman! Gender Identity in the Clay Votive Plaques of Hirbemerdon Tepe during the Early Second Millennium BC
Marc Lebeau: Notes sur l’architecture et l’urbanisme du Royaume de Nagar (2) : Une tour de garde d’époque Early Jezirah IIIb à Tell Beydar.
Giovanna Lombardo: Two Compartment Seals from Afghanistan in the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘G. Tucci’
Gianni Marchesi / Nicolò Marchetti: The Deities of Karkemish in the Middle Bronze Age according to Glyptic and Textual Evidence
Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault: Vu d’Ebla, un roi de Mari en pèlerinage à Terqa ?
Valérie Matoïan: L’image du roi vainqueur à Ugarit, entre Égypte et Mésopotamie : le décor du sceau-cylindre RS 2009.9019
Paolo Matthiae: A Problem of Iconology: A Note on the Banquets of the Old Syrian Basins of Ebla
Maria Gabriella Micale: Framing the Space: On the Use of Crenellation from Architecture to the Definition of Pictorial Spaces
Clelia Mora: Titles and Activities of Hittite Women: The Evidence of the Seals
Béatrice Muller: Iconographie mésopotamienne : images morcelées et recomposées
Davide Nadali: The Doubling of the Image of the King: A Note on Slabs B–13 and B–23 in the Throne Room of Assurnasirpal II at Nimrud
Lorenzo Nigro: A Turtle Dove Rhyton from the “Hyksos Palace” at Tell es-Sultan, Ancient Jericho
Valentina Oselini: The Ceramic Horizon of the Middle Bronze I–II in the Lower and Middle Diyala Basin
Adelheid Otto: Ritual Drinking in Syria: New Insights from the Decorated Terracotta Basin from Tall Bazi and the Funerary Talisman from Ebla
Tatiana Pedrazzi: Syrian One-Handled Fusiform Jars: An Offshoot of the Canaanite Tradition or of Late Bronze Age Connections with Anatolia?
Luca Peyronel: The Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in the Northern Levant (ca. 2000–1900 BC): The Pottery from the EE Midden at Tell Mardikh-Ebla, Syria
Sara Pizzimenti: Fertility from the Sky: The Role of the Scorpion in the Ploughing Scenes on Akkadian Glyptic
Andrea Polcaro: On Pots and Serpents: An Iconographic and Contextual Analysis of the Cultic Vessels with Serpent Figurines in the 4th–3rd Millennium BC Transjordan
Marina Pucci: Representation of Military Attack on Neo-Assyrian Glyptic: A Seal from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq
Suzanne Richard: Miniatures and Miniaturization in EB IV at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
Hélène Sader: A Phoenician Seal Impression from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon
Valentina Tumolo: A Bull’s Head from Ḫirbet ez-Zeraqōn
Agnese Vacca: Some Reflections about the Chora of Ebla during the EB III and IVA1 Periods
Federico Zaina: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Neo-Assyrian City Wall in the Outer Town at Karkemish

