28 articles have been assembled to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Assyriologist Simo Parpola. In accordance with his focus of interest many contributions deal with history, culture, language, religious aspects and archaeology of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The horizon of the festschrift is broadened by studies on Babylonian and Achaemenid topics.

Raija Mattila / Robert Rollinger / Sebastian Fink: Introduction

Bibliography of the Publications of Simo Parpola since 2008  

Tzvi Abusch: A Further Note on Maqlû III 1–30: Another Example of a First Person Ritual Description in a Maqlû Incantation

Selim Ferruh Adalı: Sin-iddinam’s Royal Inscription Schøyen MS 5000 and the Umman-manda

Amar Annus: Memory Techniques and Synaesthesia among Mesopotamian Scholars

Sanna Aro: Thureau-Dangin, Šamšī-ilu and the Lions of Til Barsip: Some Remarks

Johannes Bach: Aššur-da’’in-aplu, the Older and the Younger

Ariel M. Bagg: The Good Vassal: Edom under the Assyrians

Edward Dąbrowa: The Babylonian Astronomical Diaries as a Source for the History of the Arsacids

Stefania Ermidoro: Hidden in Plain Sight: The ‘Firing Holes’ on Ashurbanipal’s Prisms

Betina Faist: A Neo-Assyrian Riddle

Salvatore Gaspa: The Western Trade Scenario and Assyria’s Economic Policy

Aino Hätinen: Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan and his Gods: On Personal Deities in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi

Hartmut Kühne: Considerations about the Localization of Eluḫat (Eluḫut) on the Upper Tigris

Mikko Luukko: Some Remarks on the King of Assyria as the Sun God

John MacGinnis: Earthquakes in Assyria

Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault: “Why Me?” or “To Be or Not to Be”: Prince Kumma’s Netherworld Vision as an Aspect of Esarhaddon’s Apologetic Creations

Natalie Naomi May: Neo-Assyrian Eunuch-Scholars

Daniele Morandi Bonacossi: An Itinerant Tribute-Bearer’s Head from Sargon II’s Palace at Khorsabad

Davide Nadali: Live Sketches? Convention vs Realism in Assyrian Art

Martti Nissinen: Male Action in Akkadian and Hebrew Love Poetry

Takayoshi M. Oshima: Acting Out Suffering: The Rationale Behind Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan’s “Funerary” Rite in Ludlul II and V

Beate Pongratz-Leisten: Gilgamesh’s Lapis Lazuli Tablet in the Cultural Memory of Ancient Mesopotamia

Julian Edgeworth Reade: Mountaineers in Mesopotamia

Saana Svärd: “A rose by any other name …”: A note on writing conventions of Aššur and Ištar

Krzysztof Ulanowski: The Concept of Just War in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Greek Traditions

Matt Waters: SAA 21 134 and the Curious Case of Teispes(?) the šūt rēši

Agnieszka Wojciechowska: Cambyses and Artaxerxes III in Egypt: Literary Topos and beyond

Shigeo Yamada: The Šulgi Prophecy in the Kassite and Neo-Assyrian Periods: A Consideration of the Original Composition and its Later Reception

Shana Zaia: Plan B(abylonia): Adapting Neo-Assyrian Imperial Projects to Local Circumstances in Babylonia

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