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Alhouli, Khuloud: A Pre-Islamic Cultural Trade Center in the South-East Arabian Peninsula

Anderson, Talah: Enter the crown prince: revisiting the seventh century BC encounter between Assyria and Egypt

Angevin, Raphael: La « globalisation » cananéenne ou une communauté technique illusoire. Analyse comparée des traditions laminaires « post-Uruk » de Mésopotamie de nord (cultures de Ninive V et de la Plain Simple Ware, EJZ 1-2, c. 2950-2600 BC)

Baaklini, Adonice: The Influence of the Assyrian Culture in the Iron Age Northern Levant

Barber, Joseph: Walk about the city and see its walls: an allusion to the epic of Gilgameš in Psalm 48?

Barsacchi, Francesco & Torri, Giulia: “Great festivals” and “regular festivals” in the Hittite cult calendar

Bigot, Cecile: Us against the Others? How the figure of the enemy was built up in the Middle-Assyrian royal inscriptions

Blaasweiler, Joost: The king of Kussara made “the Sons of the city Nesa mothers and fathers”.  An example of how clans merged in Central Anatolia during the MBA period.

Brandes, Tim: Wagen, Waffen und Varia – Lexikalische Beobachtungen zu den Texten aus Areal I (Haft Tappeh)

Cianfanelli, Elisabetta: Craftsmen in the Ebla texts: professional contacts during the 24th century BC

Colombo, Noemi: Lubiĝu Lubiĝu Lubiĝu, Balbale da Nippur dedicato ad Inanna: ipotesi ricostruttiva di una cerimonia nuziale

Dayton, John: Ashurbanipal’s library of Alexandria

De Pietri, Marco: From iconography to icon: the image of the Hittite Great King and Hittite soldiers  in the Egyptian reliefs and texts of the New Kingdom

Dietz, Albert & Kurmangaliev, Anna: Making Sense of Compositions. A computational approach to Old Babylonian Presentation Scenes

Döpper, Stephanie: The Oman Peninsula and the Gulf Trade of the Early Third Millennium BCE

Földi, Zsombor: Old Babylonian seal prayers

Giorgi, Lavinia & Bonfanti, Annarita: Adoption and adaptation of writing systems in ancient societies. The cases of Urartian and Mycenaean

Helle, Sophus: The Touch in Gilgamesh

Helwing, Barbara: Culture Contact in Ancient Southwest Asia: Concepts and Case Studies

Hernaiz, Rodrigo: Observations on the distribution of 2MSG stative variants in Old Babylonian text genres

Leonard, Timothy: Šavoška and Anzili: A Comparison of Two Hittite IŠTAR-Goddesses

Nahm, Werner: Šiluhlu and Assyrians

Oral, Metin: The use of ZÀ.HI.LI in the context of destruction and curse: A possible case of contact between Assyrian and Hittite literary traditions.

Pintér, Anna: Linguistics and lexicography in contact: Cut, break, and hit verbs in Sumerian

Posani, Claudia: An analysis of the “Dahamunzu/Zannanza affair” according to the cognitive narratology, the Text World Theory and the Possible Worlds Theory

Prell, Silvia: Cultures in Contact – the Inhabitants of Tell el-Dab‘a/Avaris

Rovira, Leticia & Molla, Cecilia: A Story of Goods and Services. Some Clues for Understanding the Relationship between Mari and Hazor during the Old Babylonian Period

Rubin, Zachary: A New Nabû: The Disruption and Renewal of the Assyrian Cuneiform Network

Schwemer, Daniel: Cuneiform in contact. Or, how the Hittites learned to pray

Scurlock, Joann: Assyria and Babylonia: Clash of Civilizations or Cultural Koiné?

Steitler, Charles:  “Ahnenkult” and the AN.DAḪ.ŠUM Festival, Day 18, for the Storm-god of Lightning

Tarhan, Zozan: Neo-Assyrian Kings’ Perceptions of Assyrian and Non-Assyrian (Royal) Authority

Tavernier, Jan: Cišpiš/Šišpiš/Teispes/Zišpiš: Old Iranian or Elamite?           

Ulanowski, Krzysztof: Transferring Divination Practices: an Anatolian Intermediary between Assyria and Greece

Warbinek, Livio & Pisaniello, Valerio: Borrowing, Translation, and Syncretism of deities in ancient Anatolia

Zólyomi, Gábor: How to treat verbs in a Sumerian dictionary