Preface
1. Opening Lectures
Cécile Michel: ‘There is no one to set my table’: Gender Aspects in Food and Drink Preparation
Theo van den Hout: Hittite Foodways: The King as the Provider of his People
2. Food Production
Lorenzo Castellano: Viticulture in 1st Millennium BCE Anatolia: New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Southern Cappadocia and a Regional Overview
Giacomo Casucci: Cooking Practices in a Central Anatolian Site between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC: Fires and Pots at Uşaklı Höyük
Francesca Giusto: Dairy Production in SW Iran from the Middle Elamite to the Neo-Elamite Period
Paola Paoletti: “Ferment to Be”: Butter and Cheese production in the third millennium BCE Babylonia
Eleonora Quirico: Food and Craft Production at Tulūl al-Baqarat, Mound 7: A Typological and Functional Analysis of Fire and Work Installations from Building A
3. Resource Management
Philippe Abrahami / Brigitte Lion: Boire et manger d’après la documentation palatiale de Nuzi (14ème s. av. J.-C.): Première partie: les denrées alimentaires
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum / Aron Dornauer: Feeding māt Aššur: Barley supplies as a means of governance in the Western Middle Assyrian State
Amalia Catagnoti / Elisabetta Cianfanelli / Fiammetta Gori / Marco Bonechi: The Value of Food: Historical, Prosopographical and Quantitative Aspects of the Final Letters and Related Texts from Ebla Palace G (3rd Millennium BC)
John Dayton: On the Logistical Probabilities of Maništušu’s ‘Magan’ Campaign
Massimo Maiocchi: Accounting for Alimentary Items in Third Millennium Southern Mesopotamia: Some Notes on the Role of Waxed Boards in the Historical Development of Early Mesopotamian Bookkeeping
Yasuyuki Mitsuma: Health and Social Crises in 108/107 BC as Recorded in the Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries
Alessandra Caselli / Andrea Polcaro / Juan Ramon Muniz: Economy and Food Production at the Beginning of Uurbanization: The Case Study of Jebel al-Mutawwaq
Luciana Urbano: Yataraya and the Wine: Her Role in the Palace Administration of Mari (1775–1762 BC)
4. Rituality, Banquet and Commensality
Adonice-A. Baaklini / Margaux Spruyt: The Vessels of the Assyrian Royal Banquet: An Archaeological and Iconographic Approach
Trudy Kawami: What Fine Ceramics Can Tell Us About Social Drinking in Iron Age Iran
Juliette Mas: Toasting with the Dead: Funerary Drinking Vessels in Early and Middle Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamian Burials
Davide Nadali: Representing Banquets in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Public Affair?
Natia Phiphia / Omari Dzadzamia: Food and Drinks in Ancient Diaeuhi and Colchis
Paola Poli: The Iconography of the “Banquet Scene” among the Figurative Documentation from the Second and Third Millennium Levels at Tell Ashara-Terqa (Syria)
Ludovico Portuese: The Assyrian Royal Banquet: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach
JoAnn Scurlock: Marzeah in Mesopotamia
Zozan Tarhan: From Intention to Accomplishment: Secular and Cultic Feasts Provided by the Neo-Assyrian King
5. Medine and Literature
Christie Carr: Desire and Hunger; Women and Food: The earliest example of a universal conceptual metaphor in the Sumerian “Love Songs”?
Paola Dardano: “Eat and drink, but do not look at my, the king’s, eyes!”: On a Metaphorical Expression in Old Hittite
Kiril Mladenov: The Potion in the 1st Millennium Assyro-Babylonian Medicine
Jan Tavernier: The Use of Eggs in Mesopotamian Medicine and beyond
Klaus Wagensonner: Rites, Music, and Banquets: Some Observations on Rituals in Sumerian Divine Journeys
6. New Perspectives
Romolo Loreto: An Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal from the Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato: Notes on a Digital Microscopic High Magnification Analysis
Seraina Nett / Gustav Ryberg Smidt / Carolin Johansson / Rune Rattenborg: The Cuneiform Corpus in its Geographical Setting: Preliminary Results of the Project Geomapping Landscapes of Writing
Luca Peyronel / Tatiana Pedrazzi / Stefano Anastasio / Elena Devecchi / Silvana Di Paolo / Stefania Ermidoro / Valentina Oselini / Irene Rossi: ArCOA Project: The Ancient Near Eastern Collections in Italy from Study to Public Fruition
Babette Schnitzlein / Sophie Cohen: News from Ashurbanipal’s Library
7. Varia
John P. Nielsen: Marad between the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires
