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Maškadum and Other Zoonotic Diseases in Medical and Literary Akkadian Sources 20 Mar 2013
Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases due to etiological agents that pass from animals to humans, affecting both the humans and the animal. Their pathogens may be bacteria, viruses, parasites or prions, for which a wide variety of animals – wild, domesticated or peri-domesticated – serve as reservoir. The mode of transmission of the pathogens from the reservoir to the human host varies: infection through skin lesions, bites, inhalation of aerosols, contact with feces, or consumption of foodstuffs. Zoonotic diseases pose a persistent threat. Turning to cuneiform sources, there is a small group of Old Babylonian medical incantations that list diseases which affect both humans and livestock.

Faraonisch Egypte 20 Mar 2013
VERNER, M., BENEŠOVSKÁ, H. - Unearthing Ancient Egypt. Fifty Years of Czech Archaeological Exploration in Egypt. Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University, Prague, 2008. ENGEL, E.-M., MÜLLER, V., HARTUNG, U. (Hrsg.) - Zeichen aus dem Sand. Streiflichter aus Ägyptens Geschichte zu Ehren von Günter Dreyer. (MENES. Studien zur Kultur und Sprache der ägyptischen Frühzeit und des Alten Reiches 5). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2008. LINCKE, E.-S. - Die Prinzipien der Klassifizierung im Altägyptischen. (Göttinger Orientfoschungen IV/38.6). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011. ALLEN, J.P. - The Debate between a Man and His Soul. A Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44). Brill, Leiden, 2011. FROOD, E. - Biographical Texts from Ramesside Egypt. (Writings from the Ancient World 26). Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2007. ABDEL SAMIE, A.R. - Hieratic Documents from the Ramesside Period in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (GHP Egyptology 14). Golden House Publications, London, 2010. SMITH, H.S., ANDREWS, C.A.R., DAVIES, S. - The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. The Mother of Apis Inscriptions. (Texts from Excavations 14). Egypt Exploration Society, London, 2011. MUHS, B.P. - Receipts, Scribes, and Collectors in Early Ptolemaic Thebes (O. Taxes 2). (Studia Demotica 8). Peeters, Leuven, 2011. BUSSMANN, R. - Die Provinztempel Ägyptens von der 0. bis zur 11. Dynastie. Archäologie und Geschichte einer gesellschaftlichen Institution zwischen Residenz und Provinz. (Probleme der Ägyptologie 30). Brill, Leiden, 2010. MAROCHETTI, E.F. - The Reliefs of the Chapel of Nebhepetra Mentuhotep at Gebelein. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 39). Brill, Leiden, 2010. WAITKUS, W. - Untersuchungen zu Kult und Funktion des Luxortempels. (Aegyptiaca Hamburgensia 2). PeWe Verlag, Gladbeck, 2008. DORN, A. - Arbeiterhütten im Tal der Könige. Ein Beitrag zur altägyptischen Sozialgeschichte aufgrund von neuem Quellenmaterial aus der Mitte der 20. Dynastie (ca. 1150 v. Chr.). (Aegyptiaca Helvetica 23). Schwabe & Co. AG, Basel, 2011. STEFANOVIĆ, D. - The Non-Royal Regular Feminine Titles of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period. (GHP Egyptology 11). Golden House Publications, London, 2009. Korte aankondiging: JANSSEN, J.J. - Daily Dress at Deir el-Medîna. Words for Clothing. (GHP Egyptology 8). Golden House Publications, London, 2008.

Grieks-Romeins Egypte 20 Mar 2013
LIPPERT, S., SCHENTULEIT, M. (eds) - Graeco-Roman Fayum - Texts and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Third International Fayum Symposion, Freudenstadt, May 29 - June 1, 2007. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2008.

Christelijk Egypte 20 Mar 2013
DELATTRE, A. - Papyrus coptes et grecs du monastère d'Apa Apollô de Baouît conservés aux Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles. (Mémoire de la Classe des Lettres 1, 3e série, Tome XLIII, no 2045). Académie royale de Belgique, Brussel, 2007.

Ugaritisch 20 Mar 2013
WATSON, W.G.E. - Lexical Studies in Ugaritic. (Aula Orientalis, Supplementa 19). Editorial AUSA, Sabadell, 2007. SMITH, M.S., PITARD, W.T. - The Ugaritic Baal Cycle. Volume II. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4. (Vetus Testamentum, Supplement 114). Brill, Leiden, 2009. McGEOUGH, K., SMITH, M.S. - Ugaritic Economic Tablets. Text, Translation and Notes. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 32). Peeters, Leuven, 2011.

Assyriologie 20 Mar 2013
PETERSON, J. - Sumerian Literary Fragments in the University Museum, Philadelphia. (Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 9). CSIC, Madrid, 2011. SIGRIST, M., OZAKI, T. - Neo-Sumerian Administrative Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection, Parts I-II. (Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 7). CSIC, Madrid, 2009. ROTH, M.T. (ed.) - The Assyrian Dictionary. Volume 20: U and W. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 2010. EIDEM, J. - The Royal Archives from Tell Leilan. Old Babylonian Letters and Treaties from the Lower Town Palace East. (PIHANS 117). Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden, 2011. SHEHATA, D. - Musiker und ihr vokales Repertoire. Untersuchungen zu Inhalt und Organisation von Musikerberufen und Liedgattungen in altbabylonischer Zeit. (Göttinger Beiträge zum Alten Orient 3). Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen, 2009. MICHEL, C. (ed.) - Old Assyrian Studies in Memory of Paul Garelli. (PIHANS 112, Old Assyrian Archives Studies 4). Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden, 2008. VEENHOF, K.R. - The Archive of Kuliya, Son of Ali-abum (Kt. 92/k 188-263). (Kültepe Tabletleri 5). Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara, 2010. LARSEN, M.T. - The Archive of the Šalim-Aššur Family. Volume 1: The First Two Generations. (Kültepe Tabletleri 6a). Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara, 2010. FREYDANK, H., FELLER, B. - Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte IX. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 126). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2010. PARPOLA, S., WHITING, R.M., et al. (eds) - Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary. State Archives of Assyria Project, Helsinki, 2007. Corrigendum: KLEBER, K. - Aspekte des spätbabylonischen Gerichtsverfahrens (BiOr LXIX 3/4). Korte aankondiging: STOL, M. - Vrouwen van Babylon. Prinsessen, priesteressen, prostituees in de bakermat van de cultuur. Uitgeverij Kok, Kampen, 2012.

Hettitologie 20 Mar 2013
TARACHA, P. - Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia. (Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 27). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009. GANDER, M. - Die geographischen Beziehungen der Lukka-Länder. (Texte der Hethiter 27). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2010. MARQUARDT, H. - Hethitische Logogramme. Funktion und Verwendung. (Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 34). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011. GENZ, H., MIELKE, D.P. (eds) - Insights into Hittite History and Archaeology. (Colloquia Antiqua 2). Peeters, Leuven, 2011. GRODDEK, D. - Hethitische Texte in Transkription KBo 57. (Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 36). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011.

Aramees 20 Mar 2013
MORGENSTERN, M. - Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic based upon Early Eastern Manuscripts. (Harvard Semitic Studies 62). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 2011.

Oude Testament 20 Mar 2013
MÜLLER, R. - Jahwe als Wettergott. Studien zur althebraïschen Kultlyrik anhand ausgewählter Psalmen. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentische Wissenschaft 387). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2008. KÜBEL, P. - Metamorphosen der Paradieserzählung. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 231). Academic Press Fribourg, Fribourg, 2007. VIELHAUER, R. - Das Werden des Buches Hosea. Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 349). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2007. BEENTJES, P.C. - Tradition and Transformation in the Book of Chronicles. (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 52). Brill, Leiden, 2008. LIPSCHITS, O., KNOPPERS, G.N., OEMING, M. (eds) - Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period. Negotiating Identity in an International Context. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 2011. DUŠEK, J. - Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 30). Brill, Leiden, 2007. ZAMAN, L. - Bible and Canon. A Modern Historical Inquiry. (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 50). Brill, Leiden, 2008. Korte aankondiging: PETTER, D.L. - The Book of Ezekiel and Mesopotamian City Laments. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 246). Academic Press Fribourg, Fribourg, 2011.

Judaica 20 Mar 2013
COLLINS, J.J., HARLOW, D.C. (eds) - The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 2010. COLLINS, J.J. - The Scepter and the Star. Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (second edition). William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 2010. LEONAS, A. - Recherches sur le langage de la Septante. (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 211). Vandehoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2005. MÜLLER, H. - Religionswissenschaftliche Minoritätenforschung. Zur religionshistorischen Dynamik der Karäer im Osten Europas. (Studies in Oriental Religions 60). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2010.

Syriaca 20 Mar 2013
GIGNOUX, P. - Lexique des termes de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Cahiers de Studia Iranica 47, Chétiens en terre d'Iran V). Peeters, Leuven, 2011. LI TANG, East Syriac Christianity in Mongol-Yuan China. (Orientalia Biblica et Christiana 18). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011.

Archeologie 20 Mar 2013
YENER, K.A. (ed.) - The 2003-2004 Excavation Seasons. (Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, Volume 1). Koç University Press, Istanbul, 2010. WERNER, P. - Die Glyptik. (Ausgrabungen in Tall Munbaqa-Ekalte, Band 3). Saarländische Druckerei & Verlag GmbH, Saarwellingen, 2004. HAUSER, R. - Reading Figurines. Animal Representations in Terra Cotta from Royal Building AK. (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 28, Urkesh/Mozan Studies 5). Undena Publications, Malibu, 2007. DÜRING, B.S. - The Prehistory of Asia Minor. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. HAUPTMANN, H., PERNICKA, E. (Hrsg.) - Die Metallindustrie Mesopotamiens von den Anfängen bis zum 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Katalog, Tafeln. (Orient-Archäologie 3). Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden, 2004. STEADMAN, S.R., ROSS, J.C. (eds) - Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East. New Paths Forward. (Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology). Equinox Publishing Limited, London, 2010. MILWRIGHT, M. - An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2010.

Arabica 20 Mar 2013
MAKDISI, S., NUSSBAUM, F.A. (eds) - The Arabian Nights in Historical Context. Between East and West. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. HUSSEIN, A.A. - The Lightning-Scene in Ancient Arabic Poetry: Function, Narration and Idiosyncrasy in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Poetry. (Arabische Studien 3). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009. PAPOUTSAKIS, N. - Desert Travel as a Form of Boasting. A Study of Dū r-Rumma's Poetry. (Arabische Studien 4). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2009.

Islam 20 Mar 2013
AL-SALIMI, A., MADELUNG, W. (eds) - Early Ibāḍī Literature. Abu l-Mundhir Bashīr b. Muḥammad b. Maḥbūb, Kitāb al-Raṣf fi l-Tawḥīd, Kitāb al-Muḥāraba and Sīra. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 75). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011. BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, D., with contributions by N. Warner - The Minarets of Cairo. Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010. Korte aankondiging: BELLMANN, U. - »Orientierungen«. Über die Entstehung europäischer Bilder vom Orient und von Arabien in der Antike. Einflussfaktoren und stereotype Fortführungen im Mittelalter. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 295). Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin, 2009.

Varia 20 Mar 2013
Korte aankondigingen: ROLLINGER, R., TRUSCHNEGG, B., BICHLER, R. (Hrsg./eds) - Herodot und das Persische Weltreich / Herodotus and the Persian Empire. Akten des 3. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema 'Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Überlieferungen', Innsbruck, 24.-28. November 2008. (Classica et Orientalia 3). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2011. GÜNTHER, L.-M. (Hrsg.) - Tryphe und Kultritual im archaischen Kleinasien - ex oriente luxuria? Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2012. SELBITSCHKA, A. - Prestigegüter entlang der Seidenstraße? Archäologische und historische Untersuchungen zu Chinas Beziehungen zu Kulturen des Tarimbeckens vom zweiten bis frühen fünften Jahrhundert nach Christus. (Asiatische Forschungen 154). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2010. SALAHI, K. (ed.) - Knowledge is Light. Travellers in the Near East. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2011.

Ontvangen boeken 20 Mar 2013
Books received

Altar Plates from Second Millennium BC Failaka, Kuwait 20 Mar 2013
During Danish excavations 1958-1963 of Tells F3, F5 and F6 on the island of Failaka in Kuwait a large number of decorated stone vessels were found. In the course of registering this material in 2008 five fragments of a hitherto unknown type of plate were identified, one of which had a cuneiform inscription possibly mentioning the big temple. During the 2009-2011 Kuwaiti-Danish excavations in Tell F6 six further fragments of the same type of plate were found, two of them also inscribed with cuneiform letters, one mentioning the god Inzak. A perusal of the collections in the Kuwait National Museum produced fragments of two further examples of the same type of plate from previous French excavations in Tell F6 and from Slovak excavations at the site of Al-Khidr, also on Failaka. In 2012 a small collection of stone vessel fragments from Tells F3 and F6 housed at Moesgaard Museum was examined, and three fragments of this type of plate were identified. A total of 16 fragments probably stemming from twelve different plates have now been recorded.

Nergal and the Babylonian Cyclops 20 Mar 2013
The cyclops or monoculus is not a regular feature of ancient Mesopotamian art. Isolated examples occur in scenes with wild animals on third-millennium cylinder seals. The most prominent example, however, appears on an early second-millennium clay plaque from the Larsa-period Sîn temple in Khafaje (Khafajah), ancient Tutub on the Diyala river just east of Baghdad.