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.

"This volume of Ancient Near Eastern studies presented to Prof. de Martino contains a number of truly valuable contributions to the field, and is recommended to anyone interested in the interface of Anatolia and Mesopotamia in the cuneiform era." James Burgin, BSOAS 84 (2021) 152

Prefazione

Pubblicazioni di Stefano de Martino

Silvia Alaura: La vera storia di un clamoroso falso ittita di fine Ottocento 

Metin Alparslan – Meltem Doğan-Alparslan: Ein neues Tontafelfragment aus Boğazköy: Boğazkale 1-1-2018 

Alfonso Archi: Personal Names of Proto-Anatolian Indo-European-Speaking Populations East of the Euphrates (24th Cent. BC) 

Giorgio Buccellati: “Awīliš īwē”: L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città

Alessandra Cellerino: Il sigillo a cilindro IM 115642 dalla Tomba Reale III a Nimrud: Una raffigurazione enigmatica

Yoram Cohen – Netanel Anor: Forging an Empire: The Borders of Carchemish According to CTH 50 (KUB 19.27) 

Lorenzo d’Alfonso: Reorganization vs. Resilience in Early Iron Age Monumental Art of Central Anatolia

Belkıs Dinçol – Hasan Peker: Sealings from Renewed Excavations at Alalakh 

Rita Dolce: Visual Communication and the Audience: An Observation Point on Mesopotamia

Frederick Mario Fales: The Rural Hinterland of Assyrian Cities: Clusters of Toponyms

Massimo Forlanini: Il contesto storico delle istruzioni “umanitarie” hittite e l’“invasione” dei caschei (Kaška)

Rita Francia: The Name of Babylon in Hittite Texts 

Helmut Freydank – Doris Prechel: Nochmals zum Brief des Labarna an Tunija von Tikunani 

Amir 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 

Federico Giusfredi: On the Old Assyrian tuzzinnum 

Fatma Kaynar: KUB 32.121: il quinto frammento del rituale di Šalašu?

Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati: The Urkesh Mittani Horizon: Ceramic Evidence

Jörg Klinger: Nochmals zur Schreibung der Konjunktion maḫḫan und ihrer Geschichte 

Carlo Lippolis – Roberta Menegazzi: From Turin to Karakorum: Archaeology for the Public through Asia 

Romolo Loreto: Sulle origini del commercio carovaniero tra la Penisola Arabica e il Vicino Oriente antico

Massimiliano Marazzi: PORTA, PORTA2 und „Hofeingang“ in den Hieroglypheninschriften des 2. Jts. v. Chr. 

Paolo Matthiae: On the Historical Events of the Hurro-Hittite “Song of Release”

Vito Messina: A Statue of the mušḫuššu of Marduk at Babylon?

Jared L. Miller: Two Notes on Kizzuwatna’s Status as a Hittite Vassal in the Middle Hittite Period

Clelia Mora: Cylinder Seals as a Status Symbol in Hittite Anatolia 

Frances Pinnock: Far nascere una statua, uccidere una statua: Ebla e gli Ittiti (?) nel periodo paleosiriano 

Simonetta Ponchia: Essere senza un padre: Una nota su Gilgamesh 

Robert Rollinger: Some Considerations on Empire and Mental Mapping: Conceptualizing the Ends of the World in the First Millennium BCE

Andreas Schachner: The Power of Geography: Criteria for Selecting the Location of Hattuša, the Capital City of the Hittite Empire

Aygül Süel: A Mould from Ortaköy/Šapinuwa 

Giulia Torri: Potters and Pottery in Hittite Society, According to Written Sources 

Roberta Venco Ricciardi – Enrico Foietta: Cinture di sovrani, nobili e cavalieri nella statuaria di Hatra 

Mark Weeden: Hurrian in a Tablet from Tigunānum 

Gernot Wilhelm: Allaituraḫe

Sacred places are sites separated from everyday life. They are associated with symbolical and ritual activity, serving the constitution both of communal and individual identity. Ancient Mediterranean sites are explored from archaeological, historical, theological perspectives. They demonstrate various ways of transformation, from their origination, their sometimes century-long existence, their demise and sometimes radically modified renovation. The contributions are related by the question of continuity and discontinuity of the histories of sacred sites and places.

Reinhard Achenbach: Einführung

Klaus Schmidt: Göbekli Tepe. Ein Bergheiligtum der Steinzeit

Hans Neumann: Nippur. „Heiliger Ort“ der Sumerer

Julia Budka: Abydos. Totenstadt der Pharaonen

Klaus Zimmermann: Zwischen Tyros und Tanger – eine Religion der Seefahrer?

Reinhard Achenbach: Jerusalem in vorchristlicher Zeit. Vom Sitz des Thronrates der Götter zum heiligen Ort des unsichtbaren Gottes

Ulrich Sinn: Auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln des Erfolgs. Das Kultangebot von Delphi und Olympia im Vergleich

Engelbert Winter: Das Heiligtum des Iuppiter Dolichenus auf dem Dülük Baba Tepesi (Südosttürkei). Ein „heiliger Ort“ zwischen Kontinuität und Transformation

Wolfgang Hübner: Roma aeterna – eine heilige Stadt in vorchristlicher Zeit?

Johannes Hahn: Wie können Orte Christen heilig sein? Konstantins Kirchenbau, die „Entdeckung“ des Heiligen Landes und die Anfänge einer christlichen Sakraltopographie in der Spätantike

Michael Grünbart: Entlegene Orte.  Mönche, Einsiedler, Heilige und ihr Publikum

Georgios Makris: Byzantion – Konstantinopel – Istanbul. Zur Formung eines heiligen Ortes

Max Küchler: Jerusalem – Al-Quds. Das Geschick der Heiligen Stadt als kultureller Prozess von Zerstörung, Verdrängung und Verlust und von Neubelebung, Schaffung und Überhöhung von Erinnerungen

Werner Ende: Medina. Stadt des Propheten und Camposanto des Islams

Hans G. Kippenberg: Heilige Orte der Antike in der Gegenwart: der Fall Hebron