Not only history : proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Mario Liverani held in Sapienza-Universita di Roma, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichita, 20-21 April 2009 / / edited by Gilda Bartoloni and Maria Giovanna Biga in collaboration with Armando Bramanti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155112703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Winona Lake, Indiana : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-57506-457-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 939.4
• Soggetti: Middle East History To 622 Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Sull'armonia tra la storia e l'archeologia del Vicino Oriente / Joaquin Maria Cordoba -- Weber-Polanyi-Sraffa: a consideration of modes of production / Johannes Renger -- The court banquets of Sargon II of Assyria: commensality as a positive affirmation of the (successful) hunt and battle / Irene J. Winter -- Was Uruk the first Sumerian city? / J.S. Cooper -- City and countryside in ancient Mesopotamia / Marc Van de Mieroop -- Mesopotamian cities in comparative perspective, briefly: an appreciation / Norman Yoffee -- Du texte a l'histoire / Jean-Marie Durand -- State and society: flight in the Near East during the old Babylonian period (20th-17th centuries bce) / Dominique Charpin -- The Ur III literary footprint and the historian / Piotr Michalowski -- On Egyptian elite and royal attitudes to other cultures, primarily in the late Bronze Age / John Baines -- The Garamantes and after: the biography of a central Saharan oasis 400 BC-AD 1900 / David Mattingly -- The "Kenite hypothesis" in the light of the excavations at Orvat Uza / Nadav Naaman -- "Ah, Assyria..." (Isaiah 10:5ff.): Isaiah's Assyrian polemic revisited / Peter Machinist -- Measuring middle Assyrian grain (and sesame) / J.N. Postgate.